Can we ban the concept of ‘banned’ ads?

Maybe it’s the 20 calls a day we get asking if we received that press release, but we get frustrated with the often ham-handed efforts of our friends in the wooly world of PR. One gambit that’s getting particularly tiresome is the “banned commercial,” à la Go Daddy’s 2005 Super Bowl spot. Bluefly, the dot-com survivor that sells high-end fashion on the cheap, is making the banned commercial a recurring theme. A year ago, it came out with risqué