While we’re on the subject of Marmite ads (the most recent one was yesterday), it seems the rather controversial far right BNP party have been using an image of a floating tub of Marmite in a video as part of their election campaign. Marmite owner Unilever have attacked the BNP for this copyright infringement, but the BNP have hit back by saying that Marmite’s ‘Hate party’ campaign was poking fun at them.
While the BNP themselves have removed the jar from the video, the situation has since worsened, with BNP supporters threatening to carry tubs of Marmite around with them to show their indignation at the gaul of Unilever. Here’s the full ITN story here:
A-Style is an Italian clothing line and this is their logo.
There’s actually an entire Facebook page devoted to this logo called ‘join if you instantly saw the dirty side of this picture’. But to be honest, I can’t see any other side to this picture.
The 2010 Chip Shop awards finalists have been announced.
For those unfamiliar with the alternative advertising awards, the Chip Shop Awards is a competition geared towards rewarding creativity within the whole advertising industry, rather than just the most ubiquitous, high budget campaigns.
Categories for entrants include ‘best use of shocking copy’, ‘invent your own category’, ‘best use of plagiarism’ and ‘best work for a client you have but haven’t a hope of running.’
This year, the awards have grown and the lists of countries taking part has increased by 50% including entries from as far afield as Kuwait, Cambodia, South Africa, Hungary and Thailand, to name but a few.
The awards ceremony will take place on the 9th June in London and is a steal at £66+VAT. You’ll even get beer or wine, a big bag of chips and a performance by an as yet unconfirmed comedian.
To find out more, contact Kimberley Baran on +44 (0) 141 559 6078, or email her at Kimberley.baran at carnyx.com.
You can see the full list of finalists by going to the Chip Shop Awards website, or by following them on Twitter here.
This whole episode was a bit of a hassle for Kate, as it caused her to lose most of her modelling contracts with the exception of Rimmel, who ran this ad mere weeks after the story broke:
BMW doing their bit to dispel the idea that car fanatics are all sex obsessed men. I suppose it is a change from your typical used car sales pitch, but still more or less exactly Swiss Toni from ‘the Fast Show’.
The is an ad for Deutsch, a German lifestyle magazine who decided that bestiality was the way forward in promoting themselves as a really classy and forward thinking publication.
The US army seem to have decided to get Gary Glitter on board to threaten Iran. The official army poster shows the disgraced glam rocker mixing his old glam rock image, in the form of stripey trousers and a starry wastecoat with his new seedy, malevolent image complete with the chinny beard he has been sporting in all of his trials of recent memory. The poster shows him rolling up his sleeves ready to fight any Iranian that comes his way, and who wouldn’t be afraid of such a hideous man?
Indeed, the US army wouldn’t even have him over for a photoshoot, so they had to settle with a drawing of how he might look when he’s ready to hit someone with a spanner.
