CRIME: Creating the most unfortunate ad of the

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CRIME: Creating the most unfortunate ad of the year. EVIDENCE: DraftFCB placed this ad in a recent issue of a trade magazine, congratulating Cannes winners from last summer. Don’t look for it at next summer’s festival. Critics professed to having seen the same execution, headline and all, on frat-party posters back in the early 1980s, which doesn’t seem impossible. The rabid dogs (to switch animals for a second) had their way with the agency in AdFreak comments.

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