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This business of ‘scam’ ads; doctored versions of  bona fide ads or ads specially made to enter awards, seems to be a rather bigger and more widespread affair than we thought. We all know the case of the JWT India ...

Publicis Groupe’s Maurice Levy and WPP’s Sir Martin Sorrell don’t exactly get on and now Le Grand Maurice has aimed a painful kick in the creative goolies at his old enemy by hiring defenestrated JWT India creative Bobby Pawar as ...

***At the moment the scam ads ‘scandal,’ if such it is, has been confined to mad creatives somehow or other running ads that were unapproved by the client and, in the case of JWT India’s now celebrated Ford Figo ad ...

Scam ads are turning into an epidemic – or maybe we’re just noticing them after the JWT India Ford Figo fiasco. Now agency Arnold Worldwide is in the mire over a thoroughly weird mental health type ad for McDonald’s that ...

Scam ads look like being the flavour of the year following JWT India’s Ford Figo fiasco. Now Leo Burnett has withdrawn two winning radio ads for Tata from the same Goafest ad awards and similar cases seem to be emerging ...

This is all getting very confusing: first we have JWT India producing a campaign for Ford which causes all sorts of mayhem but which Ford didn’t know about (or now says it didn’t know about) and now the UK’s Love ...

This one goes from bad to worse for JWT India, Ford agency Blue Hive or Team WPP (take your pick) and owner WPP. The ads, for Ford’s Figo it appears, that we thought were the result of a ‘rogue’ (although ...

What could be more timely than demonstrating the little car’s exceptional cargo-carrying capacity than three nubile women, one scantily clad, all three bound and gagged, occupying the boot space? Closer inspection of the ad reveals that the caricatures are supposed ...

Enthusiasm is a dangerous thing and someone at JWT India has put their (and the company’s) foot in it by sending some some apparently unauthorised ads for Ford, featuring bound and gagged people in the boot of a car, off ...