This ad passed the smell test? – IOTW Report

This ad passed the smell test?

Full disclosure. I live in New York. Yes, we do call New Jersey the armpit of America. (It really does stink in the industrial areas.) But we wouldn’t say it in an advertisement and expect to endear ourselves to New Jersey consumers.

'Armpit of America': Dove announced this morning via Facebook that it would not go ahead with the controversial ad, pictured, which was scheduled to appear on billboards in New Jersey this July

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21 Comments on This ad passed the smell test?

  1. Advertising is the armpit of careers, even worse than used car sales, law and door-to-door vacuum hawking. Most are so tone deaf, they don’t realize that their inane ads actually cause suicides, because when you’re on the edge, another 30-second spot is just not an option. There are some real artists in advertising, but it’s a tiny fraction of the hoard.

  2. From the state that names a row of port-a-potties after the best coach in NFL history. And what the f#@k is a Patterson Plank Road?

    Disclaimer: I worked in Bergen county for 6 months and that’s all I can remember.

  3. In the 70s there was an black, gnarly, Geiger-esque oil refinery alongside the NJ Turnpike. It looked like something out of a Lovecraft novel. Smelled like it too.

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