'You found it offensive, we all found it funny': Firm forced to take down billboard poke fun at 'the offended' in new advert
An artificial grass company forced to take down an 'inappropriate' billboard by the advertising watchdog has returned with a new poster poking fun at the ‘offended’.
Having taken the poster down, the Oldham company has now replaced it with a new billboard ‘apologising’ to those who found the previous message offensive. In reference to the ASA complaints, the new headline states ‘Apologies to the offended 4’. Speaking to the M.E.N, Great Grass MCR Ltd said the original billboard had been up for months before a complaint was first made, but said the overall reaction had been great for business.“It had been up for three months before it received three complaints,” owner Mike Allen said. “We’ve had that billboard spot for five years and no one has ever seen it but now that people have complained, everyone’s seen it.
He explains: “I was just going to go back to doing a normal poster but then I thought, I’ll just say what everyone has said to us that they found it funny. It’s like Ricky Gervais said, just because someone finds something offensive doesn’t necessarily mean they’re right.”
Belgique Dernières Nouvelles, Belgique Actualités
Similar News:Vous pouvez également lire des articles d'actualité similaires à celui-ci que nous avons collectés auprès d'autres sources d'information.
Granny blasts property firm over time taken to refund dozens of pensioners £250James Gibb residential factors have now paid residents their deposits back but Catherine Patterson, who has lived at Blairbeth Mews for four years, is not happy with how long it took.
Lire la suite »
How technology is redrawing the boundaries of the firmCompanies are reorganising themselves in the wake of digital upheaval
Lire la suite »
Rishi Sunak offers a 'chink of optimism' on nurses' pay to avert further strikesRishi Sunak offers a 'chink of optimism' on nurses' pay to avert further strikes in BBC interview 🔴 No 10 declined to rule out reopening the current pay settlement, in a step away from the previous firm refusal to discuss pay
Lire la suite »
Mercedes decided to put resources into Formula 1 that now 'dwarfs' other seriesMercedes Formula 1 boss Toto Wolff says series like DTM and Formula E, where the firm previously competed, are now 'dwarfed' by Formula 1.
Lire la suite »