Norway’s 12-Year-Old Bride Has a Secret: She’s Not Actually Real
Creativity
This Saturday was supposed to be a big day for 12-year-old Thea, as she finally walked down the aisle to marry her 37-year-old fiance. However, the festivities may be hampered [...]
Ireland Bans Powerful Child-Abuse PSA for Baffling, Idiotic Reason
Creativity
Ireland's advertising watchdog has made itself a laughingstock—except nobody's laughing—by banning an anti-child-abuse PSA that was powerful enough to get noticed worldwide.
Fairy Tale Veers Off Course in JWT’s Child Trafficking PSA
Creativity
Here's another one for the freaky files—JWT New York's new PSA for ECPAT-USA (End Child Prostitution and Trafficking). The tagline is, "Dragons aren't the only monsters." In a statement, JWT [...]
Milly Dowler’s Legacy: Child-Safety PSAs in the U.K.
Creativity
Some people are hearing the name Milly Dowler for the first time today. She's the British schoolgirl who was murdered in 2002 at the age of 13, and whose phone [...]
Foster-Care Billboards See Lives Turned Upside Down
Creativity
Drivers in Wisconsin might wonder about the sobriety of the local billboard workers this month, as four dozen outdoor ads across the state now show an upside-down image of an [...]
Italian child-abuse PSAs truly heartbreaking
Creativity
McCann Milan is behind these eerie new ads for Casa do Menor in Italy. The print ad (see the full version here) shows a girl covered in hands—a favored image [...]