Controversial Advertising Campaigns - Help?

[copp 2 of em]

Sup NT,
need your help for a second.
I'm doing a presentation on controversial advertising campaigns, and just wanted to ask y'all if you can remember any memorable ones?
It's a project that involves two campaigns and showcase their differences.
For example, "American Apparel" and "H&M" where they both display their brand name in a different manner. AA is known for more of anedgy campaign where H&M is more subtle yet gives out a culture that is more higher class.(this example has already been done).
I'm kind of stuck NT, and I know you always come through...
any suggestions?
Thanks in advance.

 

[dwyanewadeog]

abercrombie racist tee shirts and thongs for little girls

 

[lurkin2long]

 

[copp 2 of em]

Looking into A&F,
yeah their products do seem to cross the line,
however I'm looking more into their ad. campaigns (commercials, billboards, ads in magazines) that may spark some controversy...
not necessarily the products they sell.
However, I will continue to look into A&F right now, see if anything can pop up.
thanks though,
anymore?

 

[horchata kid]

First thing that came to my mind was this Intel ad.

http://www.chocolatecity.cc/intelad.shtml

 

[copp 2 of em]

Originally Posted by horchata kid

First thing that came to my mind was this Intel ad.

http://www.chocolatecity.cc/intelad.shtml

def. controversial.
however I couldn't find anymore stuff on Intel other than that.
I'm also looking for a campaign that also looks at the culture of the product/brand they're trying to implement...
for example, beer... the culture of being masculine, and the the fact that it's almost imperative to have a beer people are watching a sporting event.
(again it's been done).
this is tougher than I thought lol

 

[sooperhooper]

check snopes.com. they have a section dedicated to controversial ads.

 

[lurkin2long]

 

[copp 2 of em]

lurkin2long

Bringing up some good points, I'm actually thinking of A&F.
respect.

 

[ol whoadie bastard]

cigarettes

Joe Camel in ads to appeal to youth

cigarette ads promoting an image of people looking beautiful and happy

old cigarette ads even stated that there were no health risks associated with smoking cigarettes i believe

 

[mr whomp whomp]

don't know if this is real or not

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(I kinda lol'd)

 

[thegoat121886]

Originally Posted by Mr Whomp Whomp

don't know if this is real or not

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(I kinda lol'd)

that's fake

 

[step your game up]

Most recently PETA released a controversial ad. Link: http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/bestoftv/2009/04/16/issues.racy.peta.ad.cnn?iref=videosearch.

 

[hazeleyed honey]

I remember this from a few years ago.I remember seeing it and I was also very offended by it. They pulled the ad in a few countries, such as The Netherlands.

http://www.gamespot.com/news/6153816.html

 

[copp 2 of em]

lol.
man, thanks NT... however...
NWA and PS3 have been done lol.

 

[toosexyfornt]

 

[copp 2 of em]

I was actually thinking of doing that BMW and Audi battle.
It's hilarious as they're both German, luxury auto-makers battling against each other without being subtle lol.
Only thing, is there aren't many differences between the two in terms of the culture in which they want to represent and such.

 

[bussinessilicitos]

I thought of this, it was controversial here in NYC

 

[datznasty]

You could go to Youtube.com and just search "banned commercial." Or use international commercials, there's one where a teacher gives his student,who appears to be about 15, an F and then she sucks him off and he gives her an A. I don't even remember what the commercial was for, might have been PopRocks or some sort of bubble gum. There was a JCPenneys one where a teenybopper, probably 13, has some of those low rise jeans on girls wear but has them up toher waist and her mom is like, "wait" and pulls them down a few inches then sends her off to school. There's the BK commercial about flat buns,the Clearasil "confidence" commercial series where dude like hits on his girlfriend's mom, there's literally tons

 

[snake201]

op take out the reference to school before a mod locks this up.

 

[copp 2 of em]

So far I'm leaning on #%##, A&F and even Calvin Klein...