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RUH FIGHTING CHAMPIONSHIP | The National Sport of Kazakhstan | 2024
A ring where men and women fight each other? Unthinkable, the men raged. But inside their own homes, they said nothing. RUH Fighting Championship exposed that silence.
DIESEL | ENJOY BEFORE RETURNING | 2020
Buy clothes, wear them, return them, get your money back. This practice, known as "wardrobing," costs the fashion industry an estimated $15 billion a year. DIESEL didn't try to crack down on it. Instead, they openly encouraged it.
NETFLIX | 人間まるだし。 | 2020
The narration opens with a sarcastic line: "What a beautiful age we live in." In 2019, when everyone was burning with "correctness," Netflix brought out The Naked Director and declared, flat out, "Human, Exposed." The moment Shibuya turned entirely red, you could feel just how powerful this ad was.
Donate Life America | The World's Biggest Asshole | 2017
Coleman F. Sweeney is the biggest jerk in town. He pees while driving and tosses it out the window, shoots the neighbor's dog with a paintball gun, steals candy from kids on Halloween. But he was an organ donor.
ナイキジャパン | ざわつかせろ | 2016
If someone stood up to give the opening oath at Koshien and said, "Please pay attention to me," the whole stadium would start buzzing. Nike knows exactly how to pick a fight.
UNITED COLORS OF BENETTON | UNHATE | 2012
Obama and Hu Jintao. Netanyahu and Abbas. The Pope and an imam, kissing. The moment these posters went up in cities, the world reacted. Within hours the Vatican was furious, calling it a "grave lack of respect," and the poster of the Pope was taken down. That reaction was probably part of the plan all along.
Sprite | Pragnienie nie ma szans (Strip Poker) | 2005
Losing your clothes in a bottle cap contest? What's that all about?
エーザイ | チョコラBB | 1991
"Doesn't it wear you out, how many idiots there are in the world?" The moment Kaori Momoi said that straight into the camera, all of Japan erupted. In 1991, complaints poured in right after the Chocola BB commercial aired, and within a few days it was swapped for a different version. But that may have been the plan all along. This is the story of an almost too-perfect "hit, then hit back" moment that's gone down in advertising history.