16637: Leftover Things Go Better With Pepsi…?

 

This Pepsi campaign from MullenLoweSSP3 in Colombia feels like a leftover idea for Coca-Cola.

16327: Bimbo Is The Bread Of Life…?

 

Does this Bimbo campaign from McCann Colombia preach that eating the toast is a spiritual experience? It’s a conceptual disaster of biblical proportions.

 

16070: Delightfully Drinking To Death In Colombia.

Publicis in Colombia is responsible for the Sol Beer campaign celebrating the Day of the Dead. Did these idiots consider the rate of alcohol-related diseases and deaths in Colombia?

 

15521: Antisocial Distancing.

 

This Amnesty International campaign from VMLY&R in Colombia is explained as follows:

 

Thousands of Central American migrants leave their countries in search of a better future, even during the COVID-19 pandemic. Through the language of “Social Distancing”, we show the parallel between the distance that saves some people’s lives, and how for the migrant population of Central America, two meters are not enough.

 

It’s more likely that the creators were simply producing a scampaign, attempting to position themselves in closer distance to an award…?

 

15413: Unable To Think Outside The Cage…?

 

Yet another plastic-kills-wildlife campaign from Colombia shows that creative teams are increasingly trapped in contrived clichés.

 

15392: El Tiempo Salutes Black Historical Moments With Hysterical Stupidity.

 

MullenLowe Group in Colombia is responsible for this El Tiempo campaign commemorating the month of the Struggle for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination. Ironically, the Blacks being used as invisible celebrity endorsers are almost certainly not being compensated—which further underscores discrimination. Brilliant. 

 

15384: Holy Shit, BBDO.

 

BBDO in Colombia hatched this Sierra Nevada campaign hyping vegan burgers during Lent. The responsible creative team should pray to their personal deity for forgiveness.

 

15377: Banco de Bogotá, Show Me The Money!

 

This Banco de Bogotá campaign from McCann in Colombia presents numbers to boast how the bank specifically supports gender equality. However, the advertisements do not display hard numbers for the probable gender pay gaps.

 

15368: Ancient Asian Secret Poo…?

 

Given that this Secret Poo campaign was created in Colombia—presumably for a Colombian audience—could the imagery be deemed as culturally clueless and anti-Asian? Regardless, the advertisements are shit.

 

14973: Downy Campaign Has No Clothes—Or Concept.

This Downy campaign from Grey in Colombia is explained as follows:

People who have changed the world, have not needed much clothing. That is why you can change the world (taking care of it) using Downy so that the clothes last longer in your closet and not the environment.

Wow. That sort of strategic thinking warrants a thumbs Downy.

14803: Any Blacks Behind The Black Forest McFlurry?

DDB Colombia is responsible for this Mickey D’s advertisement. It’s a safe bet that Selva Negra involved no Negroes. Besides, isn’t the Black Forest in Germany versus a jungle region?

14574: Is DHL Serving As A Mule For Drug Cartels?

Is this campaign related to Spain returning pre-Colombian artifacts seized from drug cartels? If so, it feels kinda disrespectful to send the stuff back via DHL. Hell, it might have been better to ask Leo Sharp to handle the transport.

14209: Stressing While Black.

McCann in Colombia is responsible for this Spring mattress campaign, where the guy above has probably been fired for sleeping late and routinely being tardy for work, while the guy below is probably being routinely pulled over for driving while Black.

14148: VML 4GN WTF.

To promote 4GN Festival Internacional De Diseño, VML in Colombia “seized the opportunity to delve deeper into how design can be used to make the world a better place.” Sorry, but the opportunistic propaganda is culturally clueless and globally offensive.

11108: Super Bonder Is Super Dumb.

This Super Bonder campaign comes from DDB in Bogotá, Colombia. It’s not quite as awful as the 2009 bullshit from DDB Brasil, but the ads are sure to, well, bomb.

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10724: Incontinence & Insensitive.

These ads from Colombia for incontinence products deserve to be pissed and shat upon.

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10088: Fractured Fairy Tales.

It’s a wonder this campaign from Colombia didn’t also feature a twisted tale involving Dania Suarez and the Secret Service.

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10067: Dania Suarez, At Your Secret Service.