The ASA's intentionally bad ads

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The U.K.’s Advertising Standards Authority has an interesting approach to raising awareness of its efforts to keep advertising standards high—producing a series of bad ads. Following bad ads created for print, TV and the Internet, the ASA has just released three radio ads which include bad editing, mispronunciations and the like. You can listen to them, and see the rest of the work here.

—Posted by Catharine P. Taylor

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