THE ORIGINAL
Perri Alley Shirts – 2009
Source : Coloribus
Agency : 1pointsize Chennai (India)
LESS ORIGINAL
Vernel Detergent – Laundry Softener – 2011
Source : Cannes Lions SHORTLIST
Agency : DDB Dubaï (UAE)
Source of both examples: The Flat Truth / Plié en quatre
“There’s no need to drink abusively … to see double. Another Cannes Bronze Lion totally ripped of! Anyway, this kind of copycat/coïncidence “drive” them directly to joelapompe.net”
THE ORIGINAL
Antral Taxi Company / Anti Drink and Drive – 2007
Source : Cannes BRONZE LION, DraftFCB website
Agency : DraftFCB Lisbon (Portugal)
LESS ORIGINAL
Mahiki Night Club / Anti Drink and Drive – 2012
Source : Adsoftheworld
Agency : Bates Pangulf (UAE)
Source of both examples: Fake Taxi Signs / En voiture pour Joe La Pompe!
I really do not know where or how to begin. Every year the same sad story, a few classroom clowns think it is funny to ruin the only advertising festival of merit in the MENA region by entering copycat, spoof and cliché work in the hope that something slips by the judges and unfortunately it sometimes happens but when it does I take action with the aid of a network of passionate professionals. So let the games begin and let the truth shine.
who refused it 
or from the advertising scene in cairo who could have notified lynx before the show 
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TITLE: “Touch”
BRAND: Skittles
AGENCY: TBWA\Chiat\Day New York
BlogAnubis is an active participating exhibitor at Oman’s 3rd Media & Advertising conference. October 18-20, 2011.
Source: Less hormonal adolescent, more civilised adult
Dubai Lynx 2012 winner of Bronze in the Outdoor category .
Source: WOMEN
Source: Ads copy art #356 – Harvey Nichols Wolves vs “Head On”
References: Cai Guo-Qiang And His Wolves and http://www.coloribus.com/adsarchive/prints/harvey-nichols-winter-sale-wolves-13748655/
Type of Entry: Newspaper and Magazine
Type of Entry: Craft
Category: Art Direction
Title: WOLVES
Advertiser/Client: HARVEY NICHOLS
Product/Service: DEPARTMENT STORE
Entrant Company: Y&R DUBAI, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES
Advertising Agency: Y&R DUBAI, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES
Chief Creative Officer: Shahir Zag
Executive Creative Director: Komal Bedi Sohal
Creative Director: Shahir Zag/Kalpesh Patankar/Parixit Bhattacharya
Copywriter: Parixit Bhattacharya/Kalpesh Patankar
Advertiser’s Supervisor: Vino El Khatib
Planner: Nadine Ghossoub
Account Supervisor: Nadine Ghossoub/Souha Khouri
Art Director: Kalpesh Patankar/Parixit Bhattacharya
Illustrator: Remix Studio Bangkok
Photographer: Anuchai Secharunputong
The Print Ad titled WOLVES was done by Y&R Dubai advertising agency for product: Harvey Nichols Winter Sale (brand: Harvey Nichols) in United Arab Emirates. It was released in the Jun 2010.
Question: Are they mocking you?
Answer: Hell YES. A success story built on scam leads to Agency of the Year for two consecutive years, judging Cannes Lions, high ranking on the Gunn report, etc. should we put up with it or should we mimic them? I have reported this last year to Emma (Dubai Lynx) she promised to open an investegation into this matter and I never heard from her again.
http://www.coloribus.com/focus/harley-davidson-ads-of-freedom/11320305
http://www.coloribus.com/focus/harley-davidson-ads-of-freedom/11320355/
Original
Client: Northwestern National Life
Country: USA
Less Original
Client: Teledymag commercial directory
www.teledymag.com
Country: Kuwait
Continue reading ‘creative animals’
Post by: Copycunts
Original by Chris Auret & Alexis Christodoulou, student campaign for South African Sustainable Seafood Initiative (SASSI) with the line ‘Would you care more now?’
“Rip off by Arnaud Vanhelle & Benoit Raynert, live campaign for WWF with the line ‘Would you care more if I was a gorilla/rhino/panda?’
This is just too fucking much. If the identical concept and execution weren’t enough to convince everyone with half a fucking brain and one functioning eyeball that the Ogilvy campaign is a total steal, the near-identical line should. Plus the fact that Chris and Alexis’ had been online for some time before the Ogilvy one came out.
But – those thieving fuckers are still protesting their innocence. Here’s my favourite line from Ogilvy’s official statement (made in a letter from their lawyer to one representing Chris & Alexis):
“Our work is indeed based on the same idea as the one of your client. But you will agree, above all, that it is not very original to use animals in their environment to talk over the disappearance of animals.”
In other words: “The idea’s shit anyway so even if we did steal it, the fact that you even care means all your ideas must be shit, so just, like, shut up yeah?”
Absolute bag of dicks. Just fucking own up to it, have some balls, relish your utter, abject ad-man cuntishness. Don’t send a statement through a lawyer. Write it on a just-emptied coke wrap, invite the boys in for a book crit and then staple it to their foreheads while they wait in reception as you saunter past on your way to the whorehouse.
But then I suppose that would require some imagination, wouldn’t it? Cunts”.
Source: http://copycunts.blogspot.com/2011/06/arnaud-vanhelle-benoit-raynert.html?showComment=1314797178847#c5146989828776237448
I came across the above story on the blog copycunts which has a plethora of copycat examples, what I also noticed is that a lot of copycat ads, spoof ads and ghost ads are synonymous with the WWF!!!!!! almost like creativity is an endangered specie. I for one wish that copycats become extinct. Follow this links to see more copycat crimes committed in the name of WWF or on behalf of them:
Check out more examples by following this link: http://www.funpic.hu/funblog/allatok/allatok.html
Client: M&J Seafood
Country: UK
Year: 2011
NB. Almost won a Best of Show in the Print category of SIA – Summit International Awards but I alerted SIA and it was withdrawn.
Source: Classic John West ad recycled / Une histoire de “suiveurs”
THE ORIGINAL
Fibra Life Low Fat Thin Shake – 2005
Headline : Slim Faster
Source : Cannes Archive Online,
Agency : AG407 (Brazil)
LESS ORIGINAL
Trim Low Fat Milk – 2008
Tagline : Fat-Breaker
Source : Adsoftheworld
Agency : Leo Burnett Jeddah (Saudi Arabia)
Special thanks to my partner www.joelapompe.net for sharing this. Cheek to Cheek / Joue contre joue
The Original:
Account Supervisor: Bettina Scherer
Advertiser Supervisor: Till Hopf
Photographer: Patrice Lange
Advertising Agency: JUNG von MATT/SPREE
Creative Team: Burkhart Von Scheven,Jan Harbeck/Antje Lichtenberg,Christian Bobst
The commercial titled CORN was done by Jung Von Matt/spree advertising agency for Tabasco Sauce (for Importhaus Wilms) in Germany. It was released in the June 2004.
Reference: http://www.advertolog.com/importhaus-wilms/print-outdoor/corn-6066655/
Less Original:
Client: Gyma
Agency: Tonic
Creative Director: Vincent Raffray
Country: UAE – Dubai
Reference: http://vincentraffray.blogspot.com/search?q=GYMA
Special Thanks to www.Joelapompe.com for sharing this with us.
More examples of Award wining creativity:
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