News Round-Up
5 May 2024
by Will Jones
No Phones in Lavatories
5 May 2024
by Joanna Gray
Topsy-Turvy Land
5 May 2024
The U.K.’s top advertising firms are under scrutiny as they engage with the Conscious Advertising Network, which seeks to break the “economic link” between ads and “harmful content”.
Laurence Fox has launched a boycott of coffee chain Grind under the hashtag '#BoycottGrind' after it became the latest company to pull its ads from GB News, starving the non-woke channel of vital advertising revenue.
In the latest Weekly Sceptic podcast the talking points are Joe Rogan's $100,000 vaccine debate offer to RFK Jr. and Peter Hotez, Howard from Take Take getting cancelled and Laurence Fox burning a Pride flag.
DIY giant Wickes is facing a boycott campaign and tumbling share price after its Chief Operating Officer said shoppers with trans-critical views are "bigots" who "are not welcome in our stores anyway".
Oxfam faces boycott calls over a Pride month cartoon which saw it accused of basing an anti-trans 'villain' on J.K. Rowling.
"It took us 20 years to take Bud Light to the No 1 beer in the country and it took them one week to dismantle it" – marketing guru behind the iconic Budweiser ads slams the company for its catastrophic missteps.
A video shows Boston Red Sox fans avoiding Bud Light at all costs during a packed Major League Baseball game as the backlash to the Dylan Mulvaney advertisement continues.
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