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Advertisers dump media companies for PR missteps (a certain hacking scandal comes to mind). And they pull controversial ads after they’ve gained enough notoriety (think DirectTV’s boxer ad, Yoplait's disordered eating spot, Summer’s Eve’s racially stereotyped talking vaginas, or JC Penney’s ‘girls are pretty and/or dumb’ shirts, and those are only from recent months).
But would advertisers pull their business from a creative agency over a violent political game unrelated to their business? Thanks to Tea Party Zombies Must Die, an online game launched by Brooklyn creative agency Starvingeyes, we’re about to find out.
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