Posts Tagged ‘morality’

Responsible or not? Advertising adultery

Friday, September 19th, 2008

Ashley Madison is a social networking/dating service—for married people.

Although the company isn’t breaking any laws by helping facilitate adultery (soon they’ll have a money back guarantee if you don’t successfully have an affair), they aren’t breaking any laws.

Still, their billboard only lasted three days in Times Square, an ad they produced for ESPN was rejected, and a second, tamer ad only ran shortly before being pulled.

Here’s the story from Reuters:


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So, what do you think?

Is Ashley Madison responsible or not?

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Life flows better with Visa, especially if you are buck naked

Monday, March 24th, 2008

Visa Europe is rolling out its new “Life flows better with Visa” campaign today. Here’s their first ad:

Think it would fly in America?

Via MarketingWeek UK