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I hate scam ads. What pisses me off more than scam ads for obscure or invented clients (Wee Poke Yu Acupuncture, Chinchpokli), are the scam ads for well-known clients.
Wonderbra would perhaps the top the list among ad students and junior writers for a spec ad. As Copyranter puts it in his inimitable, ‘I hate everyone’ style: “There are three certainties in life: death, taxes, and somewhere in the world. right at this exact moment, an ad student is working on a spec campaign for WonderBra”.
Coming to this specific ad, (created by Publicis Paris, via), this is perhaps among the subtlest of the Wonderbra ads.
Apart from Wonderbra, the other brand which gets the creative guys drooling is the ad for a 4×4. When I saw this ad for Volkswagen Touareg, my first reaction was: ‘Hey, it’s so simple, why didn’t I think of it?’. It captures the ‘off-the-road’ idea beuatifully. But apparently, this idea was executed by Fiat earlier.
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