Oooh, ad competition! GM, Ford, and Chrysler are duking it out this month over GM's "employee discount" campaign, which is driving (ha ha) customers out of the competitor's doors and into GM's.- The FDA is writin' em up this year. It's latest scolding goes to Eli Lilly, maker of the drug Strattera, for advertising the pill as a solution for ADD and ADHD, when really it's just for the latter. Lilly has to pull the ad, called "Videogame," ASAP.
- Ad agency Crispin Porter & Bogusky grabbed all three Kelly awards, for a grand total of one hundred thousand dollars. Mr. Bogusky says he'll "probably just keep" the money.
- AdAge quotes the FTC as saying the food industry's attempted self-regulation "is a 30-year experiment that has utterly failed" because, well, children are still fat. Them's fightin' words, FTC!
AdAge in 60 seconds: GM discount, Strattera no-go
Reader Comments
(Page 1)2. The FTC said no such thing (it in fact takes the opposite stand). The article in Ad Age gets this quote from the Center for Informed Food Choices.
Posted at 10:07AM on Jul 18th 2005 by Michael Lovinger
1. im afraid that some people who do cocaine have adhd and are brave clowns. i dont see them taking strattera or eating apples next to a bluegrass lawn. I'd like to see ADHD tom cruise eat a lion.
Posted at 10:38PM on Jun 19th 2005 by evan schulman