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Canada’s Environmental Defence, the environmental organization which led the campaign for the ban on Bisphenol A (BPA) in baby bottles, is now trying to alert Canadians to the many cancer-causing, hormone-disrupting and allergy-inducing substances contained in the personal care products ...

Just lovin’ it? You may be, but you can bet they aren’t. No matter how hard it tries, the world’s biggest restaurant chain by revenue simply can’t strike the appropriate note in its advertising campaigns. In place of plaudits, it ...

Regular readers of this blog may recall me recounting the heroic exploits of Libera Terra, an organisation dedicated to freeing the Italian food industry from the baneful influence of the Mafia. Now I have fresh news to report. The ethically ...

If you’re McDonald’s you’re damned if you do and also if you don’t – answer critics of your food production methods, that is. The fast food giant is tackling its critics head on with this campaign, from DDB apparently, showing ...

San Francisco’s Skona Advertising decided to hijack the city’s annual SantaCon celebration (which we should probably call a ‘flashmob’ these days) to plug Slinky’s bouncy spring toys. SantaCon, at which people dress up as Santas in various permutations, originated in ...

For once the UK’s Advertising Standards Authority has told complainants to get a life, by declining to ban this ad from mobile retailer Phones4U and agency WCRS. Over 600 people complained that the ad was ‘offensive and unduly distressing.’ Well ...

Mcgarrybowen and Droga5 are two of the hot contenders for US Agency of the Year so what could be more appropriate than the latter appointing the former? Here’s the official announcement. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Droga5 Taps McGarryBowen for Its Holiday ...

Burkina Faso? No, wait, it’s on the tip of my tongue – know that name, it’s been in the news hasn’t it? – Tunisian singer or something … Wrong. It’s a small, landlocked country, dirt-poor, situated in the Upper Volta ...

There seem to be a lot of noteworthy 50th anniversaries this year, the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) as well as Amnesty International. It’s usually facile to make comparisons between our attitude to people and animals, so we won’t do that. ...