Someone at Flora's South African ad agency has an unfortunate sense of 'humour'. But what marketing lessons need to be learned from the Unilever brand's debacle? In this day and age you really do have ...

Lowe and Partners Worldwide, a UK-based advertising agency, released an apology from its Johannesburg office for producing an ad deemed to be homophobic. The advertisement was for a “healthy,” buttery ...

A recent ad for Flora, which features a heart about to be shattered by a bullet in the shape of the words ‘dad, I’m gay’, has been pulled by Unilever. The ad, which is believed to have been created by ...

GLOBAL margarine brand Flora has shot itself in the foot after launching a campaign which suggests coming out to parents is akin to taking a bullet to the heart. In front of a pink background, the ad ...

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Unilever, the parent company of Flora brand margarine, has apologized for an ad comparing coming out as gay to shooting your parents in the heart. After being heavily criticized for its homophobic ...

The UK’s advertising standards watchdog has banned a Unilever Flora ad for making unjustified claims about its Pro-Activ spread. The Advertising Standards Authority said it received two complaints ...

The ASA revealed to The Drum that the general nature of the 504 complaints (as at Monday 18 November) it received were about the ad being ‘offensive,’ ‘irresponsible,’ and ‘unsuitable for children.’ ...