Topic: Controversy
Norwegian sporting goods retailer XXL has agreed to stop running its new zombie-themed ad during family-oriented TV programs, a decision reached after a flurry of viewer complaints that the spot…
Heading toward the second year of its legal battle against Disney and Target, a small Seattle design firm needs help to keep the fight going. In September 2011, the owners…
He was leaving anyway. But Anthony Bourdain's eight years with the Travel Channel are ending on a sour note after the celebrity chef noticed, while watching the final episodes of…
British supermarket chain Asda stirred up some controversy with its new TV spot in which a mom literally makes Christmas happen by herself. The company even apologized for it last…
The English National Opera is courting controversy with an ad campaign for its production of Mozart's Don Giovanni that pairs the image of an open condom wrapper with the familiar…
It looks like one of the great spokescharacters of recent years has met an ignominious end. Sony is suing Jerry Lambert, the great commercial actor who has played Kevin Butler,…
A Swedish ad campaign that broke in May for H&M featuring Brazilian model Isabeli Fontana has been scolded this week by Reklamombudsmannen (aka, RO), Sweden's version of Britain's Ad Standards…
So, this happened late last week: Dr Pepper posted a dumb joke on Facebook—a visual parody of the infamous 1965 "March of Progress" evolution illustration, with Dr Pepper playing a…
This "Happy to sit on your face" billboard, for Spy sunglasses, was supposed to stay up in its Encinitas, Calif., location for five weeks. But it was taken down after…
"I didn't know how much the name would disturb people. It was only when the store opened that I learned Hitler had killed 6 million people." That's the dubious explanation…
