‘Banned’ Sprite ad unleashes a load of buzz

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It’s a fact of the advertising industry that roughly 99% of those “banned” ads you see on the Web were never banned at all — or even intended to be aired. It seems that has to be the case with the tremendously not-safe-for-work Sprite spot that’s been bouncing around the blogosophere all day. We’re given little more information than, as the Huffington Post says, it has “apparently been banned from the air” in Germany. Maybe.

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