"Blackcurrant was relaunched as an Asda-exclusive flavour in August 2011 and as a standard flavour in December 2012. Nonetheless, ""St George"" remains the final advertisement for the drink, with Tango having seldom advertised on television in the 2010s. St George (advertisement) St George is a multi-award-winning television commercial for the British soft drink, Blackcurrant Tango. The commercial was created by Chas Bayfield and Jim Bolton at the UK advertising agency, HHCL + Partners and was directed by Colin Gregg at the production company, Eclipse, for the client David Atter at Britvic. The advertisement was Tango's biggest advertisement to date, and"
"in the US federal wine tax, and using a malt-beverage base became the new industry standard. Later, Mike's Hard Lemonade was released in the United States, with humorous commercials depicting what they called ""violence against lemons"". Smirnoff also came out with another citrus-flavored malt beverage in the United States in the late 1990s called Smirnoff Ice, which promoted itself with flashy commercials, usually involving trendy young people dancing in unlikely situations and places. (In the UK, Smirnoff Ice is marketed by Diageo as a PPS.) Some have expressed concern that such drinks might appeal to children as they tend to"
"be sweet and brightly colored. Many cooler advertising campaigns have been criticized as trying to make 'alcopops' appeal to young drinkers. In the United Kingdom, that led to a media outcry during the mid-1990s as the tabloid press associated alcopops with under-age drinking which damaged sales and would lead to off-licences withdrawing them from their stores. In response to a complaint from the Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI), the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) conducted an extensive investigation in 2001. The agency ""found no evidence of intent to target minors with the FMB products, packaging, or advertising. Furthermore,"
"the Tropical Fantasy line, the soft-drinks became an overnight success. It now bottles over $2 million each month in sales. sweet Tea In April 1991, rumors began circulating in Black neighborhoods that the beverage was laced with a secret ingredient that would sterilize black men. The beverage quickly earned the nickname ""Tropical Fanticide."" The rumors claimed that the Ku Klux Klan was actually bottling the product and using the low price to attract poor citizens. Similar unfounded rumors about Klan involvement periodically have plagued the Church's Fried Chicken chain and Snapple soft drinks. Later that year the rumor spread rapidly"
"a commercial featuring anthropomorphic animals (such as a deer, a bear, peacocks, and chameleons) in swimsuits, caused outrage in the United Kingdom, for its sexually suggestive content. In the video, the animals gyrate around poles, spray the drink onto the breasts of other animals, and ride bottles which then explode. The advert had already had 45 seconds of more provocative footage cut, and was only to be shown after the 9 o'clock watershed, initially during a programme titled ""How to Look Good Naked"". Kidscape, a children's charity based in the country, criticised the advert, saying, ""Orangina is a drink which"
"is mainly aimed at children and young people, but this new advert places the product in a very sexualised and provocative context"". The advert was also awarded ""Freakiest Advert of 2008"", and was seventh place in ""Worst TV Ad of 2008"". Others claim that Orangina is not targeted just at children and is also a ""leading adult soft drink"" and that the advertisement is intended to create controversy and thus free publicity. The advertisement was popular, and by April 2008 had three million online viewings. Orangina Orangina () is a lightly carbonated beverage made from carbonated water, 12% citrus juice"
"Rondo (soft drink) Rondo was a citrus-flavored soft drink available in limited U.S. markets in the late 1970s and early 1980s, one which was ""blended from fine essences"", and ""lightly carbonated"". It is mostly famous for its slogan - ""Rondo---The Thirst Crusher"" - as well as its commercials, featuring people crushing the cans in various ways. The cans featured bright yellow packaging for regular Rondo and green packaging for Diet Rondo. It was introduced in 1978 by Cadbury-Schweppes. Schweppes sells a similar drink in Australia under the name Solo. The drink and its name were parodied in the 2006 film"
"1990s, Shapiro became controversial for his self-promotional television commercials in which he promised to obtain large financial settlements for accident victims, referred to himself as ""the meanest, nastiest S.O.B. in town"" and claimed to have ""aggressive courtroom prowess"". His ads' visuals frequently included vehicle crashes, falling bodies, Satan, threats of physical violence against defendants, images from the video game Doom, animals and people being hit by trains, and explosions. He also began selling not-for-profit t-shirts which featured ""a vicious beast with blood dripping from its fangs"" and the words ""Protected by Vicious S.O.B., Jim The Hammer Shapiro."" Shapiro sold all"
"drinking games. Abercrombie & Fitch ordered the drinking game pages removed from its stores' remaining copies and sent apology letters to its subscribers. In 1999, Illinois lieutenant governor Corinne Wood called for a consumer boycott of Abercrombie & Fitch because of the sexually explicit nature of the ""Quarterly"" 's ""Naughty or Nice"" holiday issue, which included nude photographs and an interview with porn star Jenna Jameson. Among the images that stirred controversy was a picture of Santa and Mrs. Claus engaging in sadomasochistic behavior, across the page from the statement ""Sometimes it's good to be bad."" The Illinois Coalition of"
"Surge (drink) Surge (sometimes styled as SURGE) is a citrus flavored soft drink first produced in the 1990s by The Coca-Cola Company to compete with Pepsi's Mountain Dew. Surge was advertised as having a more ""hardcore"" edge, much like Mountain Dew's advertising at the time, in an attempt to lure customers away from Pepsi. It was originally launched in Norway as Urge in 1996, and was so popular that it was later released in America as Surge. Lagging sales caused production to be ended in 2003 for most markets. However, popular fan bases such as Facebook's ""SURGE Movement"" led Coca-Cola"
"associated with the ads. It was reported that the US Justice Department was investigating the ad campaign for possible violations of federal child pornography and exploitation laws. The Justice Department subsequently decided not to prosecute Calvin Klein for these alleged violations. Skyy Vodka is known for using sex in their advertising. In a specific Skyy Vodka advertisement, which was a part of Skyy Vodkas “SKYY SEXY” campaign in 2010, a woman's legs are wrapped around a bottle of Skyy Vodka. Bruce Lee Livingston, of the Marin Institute stated “This is just ridiculous, It’s a porn-a-hol”. He continues to mention its"
"offered for $88 USD. This version of the Autavia was called the """"Viceroy"""" and advertisements for this promotion featured racer Parnelli Jones. Various adverts were made to promote both the cigarette brand and the Autavia watch. In the 1970s, Viceroy was proposed as part of a B&W marketing test to see whether children could be encouraged to become smokers. This was discovered by the Federal Trade Commission during a closed investigation of cigarette company advertising practices. The Viceroy ad campaign was not carried out. The Viceroy brand was involved in public controversy beginning in 1994 when U.S. Food and Drug"
"beverage. Targeting primarily internet savvy teenage youth, the campaign included posters and a series of viral internet video ads. The controversy stems from the use of the WTF internet slang acronym ""What the Fuck"", a poster of a nun and goat bowing in the presence of a cup of ""WTF"" and video ads portraying sexual innuendo and bizarre or questionable conduct. In response Mac's has pulled the more controversial ads and has stated that it intended ""WTF"" to refer to ""What's the flavour?"". In 2008, another controversial Froster advertising campaign was launched that uses the acronym ""STFU"" (which in Internet"
"multipacks. At one time Scampi 'n' Lemon flavour Nik Naks contained a fish derived ingredient . Since 2018 the product is suitable for both vegetarians and vegans due to the removal of lactose. The brand ran a notable advertising campaign in the 90s created by animator Bill Plympton, based on his short film ""Push Comes to Shove"", in which two men's heads transform into a variety of shapes. . This was subsequently followed up by 5 second adverts describing how ugly the snack was. In 1993, the brand ran an instant win promotion giving away rubbish. Such things as tummy"
"alcoholic beverage companies with lawsuits. In one such lawsuit, filed in September 2008, the Center ""sue[d] MillerCoors Brewing Company over its malt beverage Sparks, arguing that the caffeine and guarana in the drink are additives that have not been approved by the FDA,"" and that the combination of those ingredients with alcohol resulted in ""more drunk driving, more injuries, and more sexual assaults."" In the early 1990s, CSPI designed social marketing campaigns to encourage adults and children (over age two) to switch from high-fat (whole and 2%) milk to low-fat (1% and fat-free) milk, alleging such a switch would reduce"
"Crystal Pepsi Crystal Pepsi is a soft drink made by PepsiCo. It was first sold in Europe in the early 1990s. The United States and Canada received it from 1992 to 1994, with brief rereleases throughout the mid-2010s. It was briefly sold in the UK and Australia. The product's original market life was sabotaged by competitor Coca-Cola, in a ""kamikaze"" plan which sacrificed its Tab Clear product in order to end them both. Crystal Pepsi is notable for a fanatical revival by the public decades later, leading to a corporate response with these re-releases. In the early 1990s, a marketing"
"a song bearing the lyrics ""here comes the Lilt Man"". In the late 1990s it was heavily promoted with advertisements featuring two Jamaican women, Blanche Williams and Hazel Palmer. They became known in the media as the ""Lilt Ladies"". Lilt Lilt is a brand of soft drink manufactured by The Coca-Cola Company and sold in the United Kingdom, Ireland, Gibraltar, and the Seychelles only. During the 1970s and 1980s, Lilt was promoted with the advertising slogan, ""the totally tropical taste"". Between 2008 and 2014, the Coca Cola company reduced the number of calories in the soda by 56% as part"
"""Idiocracy"" as ""Brawndo: The Thirst Mutilator"". Rondo (soft drink) Rondo was a citrus-flavored soft drink available in limited U.S. markets in the late 1970s and early 1980s, one which was ""blended from fine essences"", and ""lightly carbonated"". It is mostly famous for its slogan - ""Rondo---The Thirst Crusher"" - as well as its commercials, featuring people crushing the cans in various ways. The cans featured bright yellow packaging for regular Rondo and green packaging for Diet Rondo. It was introduced in 1978 by Cadbury-Schweppes. Schweppes sells a similar drink in Australia under the name Solo. The drink and its name"
"to life, terrifying the kids and mother, and starts to chase them. This commercial is also notorious for ending on a cliffhanger which still remains unresolved to this day. In the 1990s, one of Sprite's longest-running ad campaigns was ""Grant Hill Drinks Sprite"" (overlapping its ""Obey Your Thirst"" campaign), in which the well-liked basketball player's abilities, and Sprite's importance in giving him his abilities, were humorously exaggerated. In 2000, Sprite commissioned graffiti artist Temper to design limited edition art, which appeared on 100 million cans across Europe. In 2004, Coke created Miles Thirst, a vinyl doll voiced by Reno Wilson,"
"products ""could completely counteract exercising more, playing football more, going to the gym more"". The drinks are marketed as soft drinks; a soft drinks industry spokesman said in response ""By helping people participating in sport to perform better and to recover more quickly, sports drinks can encourage people to exercise more"". In May 2016, Liverpool City Council started a campaign against so-called ""sugary drinks"". The ""name and shame"" campaign, entitled “Is your child’s sweet tooth harming their health?”, claimed that Lucozade was the worst offender, containing 62 grams of sugar in a 500 ml bottle, followed by Coca-Cola with 54"
"and hit TV screens in 2001. The TV adverts feature men pulling pranks or behaving in a strange or selfish manner for the beverage. Along with several other alcopop or RTD producers, WKD have been accused by the UK ASA of using advertising which was likely to appeal to under-18s, resulting in some of their TV adverts being banned. There has been much debate over the pronunciation of the product's name, mainly between two sides; with some believing it to be just a repetition of the letters 'W', 'K' and 'D' and then those who call it 'wicked' WKD was"
"promotion, Combat Zone Wrestling, and relocated to Philadelphia in late 2001. From its early stages, CZW was oriented towards hardcore wrestling; Zandig himself has been involved in many ultraviolent matches since the company's inception, involving such objects as thumbtacks, fluorescent light tubes, barbed wire, and a weed wacker. On one occasion, he was hung from meat hooks. Zandig wrestled in Japan as the leader of CZW to compete for Big Japan Pro Wrestling. In the early 2000s, Zandig appeared in a Japanese television commercial alongside the Japanese actress Ai Kato for a soft drink product named C1000 (by Takeda Food.Co),"
"Froster beverage. The campaign centred on the ""Whack"" flavour and used double entendres involving the word, such as ""I think I could have a Whack every day if I could"", and humorously censored ""Whack"" in the commercials. In May 2007, Mac's introduced a controversial advertising campaign for its new WTF Froster beverage. Targeting primarily net savvy teenage boys, the campaign included posters and a series of viral internet video ads. The controversy stemmed from the use of the WTF internet slang acronym (""what the fuck""), a poster of a nun and goat bowing in the presence of a cup of"
"innovative marketing campaigns"". The drink's first iconic campaign introduced the catchphrase ""You know when you've been Tango'd"", produced by advertising agency HHCL. The campaign began in 1992 with an advert, ""Orange Man"", featuring a man drinking Tango and immediately being slapped around the face, by a portly man painted orange (Peter Geeves). The advert received widespread condemnation after a craze for ""Tangoing"" people swept the nation's playgrounds, and there were reports of children receiving serious injuries, or even being deafened by being slapped on the ears. Tango voluntarily replaced the ""slapping"" advert with an almost identical new version, where the"
"Lilt Lilt is a brand of soft drink manufactured by The Coca-Cola Company and sold in the United Kingdom, Ireland, Gibraltar, and the Seychelles only. During the 1970s and 1980s, Lilt was promoted with the advertising slogan, ""the totally tropical taste"". Between 2008 and 2014, the Coca Cola company reduced the number of calories in the soda by 56% as part of its efforts to make healthier products in response to the British Government’s Public Health Responsibility Deal. One advertisement in the late 1980s featured the ""Lilt Man"", a parody of a milkman, delivering Lilt in a ""Lilt float"", with"
"UK where he rides up in an army tank and shouts abuse at a football player who appears to be faking an injury, threatening to introduce him to his friend Pain. Another advert featured Mr. T launching bars at a swimmer who appeared to refuse to get in a swimming pool because of the cold temperature of the water. In 2008, a European Snickers commercial in which Mr. T uses a Jeep-mounted Minigun to fire Snickers bars at a speedwalker for being a ""disgrace to the man race"" was pulled after complaints from a US pressure group that the advertisement"
"attracted criticism and was subsequently replaced with a less controversial one. Scorched Peanut Bar The Scorched Peanut Bar was an Australian confectionery bar that contained peanuts baked in toffee and covered in chocolate. It was originally manufactured by Mastercraft, then by Nestlé who later discontinued it. The product was promoted as ""The Hard Bar"" and was advertised using sexually suggestive and masculine imagery. One example of this suggestive advertising is a 1980s television commercial involving a rugged looking lumberjack felling and then straddling a tree and unsheathing a Scorched Peanut Bar on his thigh. An attractive female companion arrives and"
"from the BBC described it as ""more sweetly plaintive"" than the Sugababes' version. ""Stronger"" was used in an anti-bullying advertisement that depicts a fifteen-year-old girl with her mouthed stitched up. The advertisement was banned from appearing on television, although it was permitted by the Cinema Advertising Association to appear in cinemas across Britain from 19 January 2010. The music video for ""Stronger"" became the subject of media attention in June 2011 after a member of Scotland's SlutWalk movement posted it on the group's website, claiming that it was in encouragement for victims of rape. Credits are taken from the liner"
"Klein jeans, saying, ""Do you want to know what gets between me and my Calvins? Nothing."" Calvin Klein has also received media attention for its controversial advertisements in the mid-1990s. Several of Calvin Klein's advertisements featured images of teenage models, some ""who were reportedly as young as 15"" in overly sexual and provocative poses. Although Klein insisted that these advertisements were not pornographic, some considered the campaign as a form of ""soft porn"" or ""kiddie porn"" that was exploitative, shocking, and suggestive. In 1999, Calvin Klein was the subject of more controversy when it aired advertisements of young children who"
"RCMP officer Hugh Stewart pepper spraying protesters became iconic with Stewart becoming known as “Sergeant Pepper” and later being summoned to testify at a public inquiry into the police handling of the protests. Another major issue tackled by the paper in the 1990s was the ten-year exclusivity deal reached in 1995 between Coca-Cola, UBC, and the AMS allowing only Coca-Cola soft drinks to be sold on campus. ""The Ubyssey"" fought to force details of the confidential deal to be made public through a freedom of information request which was denied on the basis that it would harm the university's financial"
"Twenty"". The dog, portrayed by a female bull terrier named ""Honey Tree Evil Eye"", was not without its share of controversy. Shortly after Spuds' rise to fame it was learned that the dog, who was portrayed as male in the commercials, was actually female. The ads were also the subject of attacks and calls for censorship by temperance-oriented groups. Soon after the ads were first aired in 1987, Senator Strom Thurmond began his own media campaign, claiming that the beer maker was using Spuds to appeal to children for the purpose of getting them interested in their product at an"
"and provoked violence in many city neighborhoods. Attacks occurred on delivery trucks and storekeepers who stocked Tropical Fantasy. Due to these rumors and rising suspicions, sales of the beverage plummeted by 70%. Investigations found the claims to be as preposterous. Sales recovered only after an extensive public relations campaign that included then-New York City Mayor David N. Dinkins, who is Black, drinking a bottle of the soda for television news cameras. By mid June 1991 the attacks had stopped and the sales had rebounded, but the dark rumors about Tropical Fantasy were not forgotten. Even today, the rumors are still"
"possible new variations of its soft drink and decided it would sell more product if it used a sweeter formula. Once New Coke was launched, Pepsi prepared its public response to the change; among its talking points for journalists writing about New Coke was to ""Ask them about those Bill Cosby ads"". One of a new series of Coke advertisements showed Cosby dressed in a toga; this campaign was described as unconvincing. Coca-Cola faced a widespread public backlash, internal dissent, and ultimately the original drink recipe returned as ""Coca-Cola Classic"". In the days following the reversal, an editorial cartoon featured"