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Home Hardware wants you to remember to pack up your pets this moving day.

Every July 1st in Québec, thousands of residents pack up and move out of their apartments. It’s called “Moving Day,,” and it’s the busiest day of the year for tenants to move within the province and it can make a large city like Montreal chaotic. Even worse is the fact that every year, more than 1,600 pets are left behind by their moving owners.

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Home Hardware – Pack up your pets – (2017) .30 (Canada)

Home Hardware - Pack up your pets - (2017) .30 (Canada)
Every July 1st in Québec, thousands of residents pack up and move out of their apartments. It’s called “Moving Day.” Worse, every year, more than 1,600 pets are left behind. Home Hardware wants to change that, and with john st. they created this campaign for for the Quebec market. See the posters as well at the article “Home Hardware wants you to remember to pack up your pets this moving day.”
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BT Ryan Reynolds broadband ad banned by ASA after complaints

BT Ryan Reynolds broadband ad banned by ASA after complaints
The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has banned this Ryan Reynolds BT ad, known as “Helicopter”, after more than 60 complaints. But it’s not for the nutty helicopter stunt, where Ryan casually grabs on to a chopper and allows it to fly 200 meters up in the air with him hanging on to it. It’s for the words “UK’s most powerful Wi-Fi signal” and the assertion that BT’s Smart Hub users had “faster Wi-Fi connections in more rooms than the latest hubs from other major UK broadband providers.”

See the second claim is firmly in the routers capabilities, not in BT internet, so the ASA slapped the company with a ban for this ad. The ASA geeked out and checked the claim thoroughly first.

“We considered that it was sufficient for BT to test only the three top-performing hubs in order to demonstrate that the same results could be achieved in a representative real home setting. However, it was not sufficient to substantiate the claim as it would be understood by consumers, as a comparison with the whole market.”

Some complainers noted that the hanging-off-a-helicopter scenario wasn’t likely to get you any wifi at 200 meters up, and protested that claim. But the ASA scoffed at that, noting; ” it depicted a fantastical situation that did not reflect the way consumers were likely to use Wi-Fi.”

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The warning poster that can also be used as a fishing net.

poster that doubles as a fishing net

To educate fishermen on the need to join the hunt for lionfish, a venomous species destroying the Caribbean ecosystem, Geometry designed very smart posters.

Printed on an incredibly tough material, it explains everything the fishermen need to know about the lionfish, it shows images of the lionfish, and then the poster also transforms into a lightweight net the fisherman can use to bring home the catch. Yes, it’s a poster that can work as a fishing net. How very clever!

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