Posts Tagged ‘marmite’

Speaking of Marmite…

Wednesday, April 28th, 2010

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:

Marmite go too far

Tuesday, April 27th, 2010

Marmite have launched this amazing series of ads for their new cereal bar produced using the opinion polarising yeast spread. The ads are all pastiches of advertising for other products offered by parent company Unilever and are executed brilliantly.

Exotic Matter really like these ads and probably prefers them to the current ‘Love party/Hate party’ TV campaign they are running at the moment.