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Apple forced to scrap iPhone advert

Apple have been told not to run a TV ad again in the UK for the iPhone 3G after 17 people complained that it exaggerated the speed of 3G. The ad used the phrase "really fast" repeatedly, cou...

26 Nov 2008
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Fake Sumo wrestler helps HSBC shoot itself in the foot

HSBC stands accused of 'cultural insensitivity' after dressing up an overweight white man to look like a sumo wrestler and running it on ads across the UK. Complaints have come in that it looks like t...

26 Aug 2008
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Hey let's dumb it down for the yoof market

Have you seen www.urelife.com? I thought this was a Nathan Barley-style spoof at first. Surely a web site can't be this bad? Not even BBC3 looks this 'yoof'. What crack team of marketing geniuses t...

16 Apr 2008
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Brand madness - Apple versus Microsoft

The Mail app on the Mac comes with an RSS feed entitled Apple hot news which as you might expect is full of feel-good, brainwashing nonsense about all things Apple. Some of it's interesting - for exa...

03 Apr 2008
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Two word slogan - yours for 1.4 million quid

The Register are reporting that HMRC apparently got through an impressive £1.4m in 2006 coming up with a new slogan - HMRC Ambition. Yup that's only 700,000 per word. Bargain. While we're on the top...

18 Feb 2008
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