Advertising

Nike under pressure to recall “blasphemous” shoe with design resembling Arabic word for Allah

Dominic Powell Friday, February 1, 2019

Global sportswear company Nike has found itself courting controversy for the second time in six months, with an online petition calling for …

Dominic Powell Friday, January 18, 2019

Australian small businesses selling hemp foods and products have been banned from advertising their products on Facebook and Instagram, desp…

David Hayes Thursday, December 20, 2018

‘How to amplify your brand on a budget’ is probably the biggest puzzle in marketing.

Why? It is partly because budgets seem to be consta…

Matthew Elmas Wednesday, December 19, 2018

A Sportsbet campaign depicting a man shaving his pubic region has emerged as the most complained about ad in the 22-year history of Australi…

Dominic Powell Thursday, December 13, 2018

An advertisement depicting biblical figure Jesus as an organ donor has been banned by the advertising watchdog, with complainants labelling …

Adam Shalagin Thursday, October 18, 2018

For the longest time, I worked for global e-commerce giants Expedia and eBay. Both wielded many millions in advertising budgets, the majorit…

David Hayes Wednesday, October 10, 2018

Traditional advertising agencies are snapping up small digital agencies at a rate of knots with a vision to produce a more complete, current…

Dominic Powell Thursday, September 27, 2018

In what may be an unprecedented ruling, the Swedish advertising watchdog has ruled a Facebook post by a local internet services provider tha…

Michel Hogan Tuesday, September 11, 2018

In 2016 Colin Kaepernick, a football player with the NFL, used his profile as a quarterback to take a stand and protest police brutality aga…

Dominic Powell Tuesday, September 4, 2018

Influential tech giant Google has announced it will heavily restrict all advertising on its platform by third-party tech support providers, …