It’s a match made in advertising heaven. Mattel has secured licensing from Lionsgate to transform Barbie and Ken into “Mad Men”-styled dolls. The four characters to be immortalized as such are Joan Holloway, Roger Sterling, Don Draper, and Betty Draper. Naturally, these are premium dolls that will be priced at around $74.95 each and will [...]

Well, I’m not sure that this French anti-smoking campaign will necessarily work per se, but it sure does command one’s attention. The advert slogan itself, loosely translated, reads, “Smoking is being a slave to tobacco.”
Yeah, I know what you’re thinking…

“Lane Assist. Gives you an alert when you’re not.”
Here we go again… Volkswagon is back with its urine-soaked advert motif. The above example would terrify even a circus freak, and, given that a significant proportion of the auto-buying population is already predisposed to lose bladder control at the mere sight of clowns, is this advert [...]

Yes, this is an advert for Viagra, which apparently needs to be publicized beyond the random Hugh Hefner joke. Still, sometimes an advert is so banal that it just works.

This is a slightly dated advert that challenged consumers to find the box holding the “golden tampon.” Hey, it’s only gross if one actually uses the thing.

Just try and guess what this advert is selling.
Click it to find out if you guessed correctly.

Emma Watson has been the face of Burberry for some time now, and in the photo shoot for Burberry’s Spring-Summer ’10 fashion line she looks as tasteful and classy as ever. That is, with the curious exception of one picture (the one above) where she appears to be missing a leg. Incredibly bad [...]

Those zany Dolce and Gabbana chaps have done it yet again; that is, they’ve managed to feature a rather corpse-like Miss Scarlett “Vanishing Chest” Johansson, who only recently appeared for D&G as a living dead curveless drag queen girl. This is not to mention the recent plum-coloured hair and pink padded cell, which were both [...]