Advertising Is Good For You

Bad timing for Umi

Ashton-Drake Galleries had the bad luck to offer us a baby monkey doll the same week Travis the chimp went berserk and mauled a woman.

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This ad ran in one of the Sunday circulars in yesterday's Boston Globe.

In the defense of the advertiser, there was really nothing it could do to prevent this ad from appearing in newspapers this weekend. Sunday circulars are created and printed far in advance. Getting the circular pulled in time would also have required the agreement of all the other advertisers appearing in the same circular.

See another Ashton-Drake ad HERE.

Hewlett-Packard's Unfortunate Campaign in Light of Spying Scandal

While Hewlett-Packard's ex-chairwoman and four others are being charged with felonies for illegally gathering phone records to spy on other board members, H-P has continued to run its "Personality Profiles" advertising campaign with the ironic admonition, "Go far. Keep your secrets safe."

Source: AdFreak

As of yesterday, 114 people in the US had been infected with E. coli from contaminated spinach. This is the ad Embassy Suites is running in this week's New Yorker.

Source: Copyranter