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Just liquid hand wash: Maggots

Just liquid hand wash: Maggots
Your rating: None Average: 1.7 (18 votes)

If you aren't totally clean, you are filthy.

Advertising Agency: Euro RSCG Mumbai, India
Creative Director / Copywriter: Siddharth Bindra
Art Director: Priti Chandorkar
Illustrator: Rajesh Gaikwad
Photographer: Avdhoot Hembade
Production: Makrand Hembade
Published: December 2007

Comments

djakuza's picture 521 pencils

i think i have to throw up! What a disgusting ad.

Jarne von Wolfsburg's picture 284 pencils

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this is an ad? maybe there`s a link to the product benefit... but do you really wanna say it that way? I`m wondering why big agency names are listed in the creditds according to such creepy ads... shouldn`t you be professionals?

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wildbore's picture 602 pencils

2much!!

JAGGY's picture 1396 pencils

Agree, this copy is filthy.

Jaggy, MICA Ahmedabad

roggee's picture 4 pencils

DISGUSTING and cliché too

EGGO's picture 267 pencils

Love it!

Yeah right. Every bit of this is bad. Idea, copy, artwork...

You have to hate advertising in order to truly love it.

arammart's picture 6 pencils

:) good point!

john doe's picture 1501 pencils

The client has approved this? Never – unless he wasn't completely drunk.

puppiepoppy's picture 1582 pencils

The hand=the agency's creative. The close-to-dead guy on bed=client /brand

"Bowww Wowww"

Guest commenter's picture

dead guy :D is Sanjay khare... CD

Umi's picture 39 pencils

eeeven i don't nee to which brand is....

nothing is impossible

sodomy's picture 266 pencils

Customers will think negative way to the brand for sure.

iT-iS-i's picture 1721 pencils

I'd have definitely used a different model...

Add insult to injury then burn the candle at both ends.

:: Put your ears against the ground so i can walk over what you heard::

gienel's picture 345 pencils

yummy

(my Life Is Design & Design Is my LIFE)

Miss Candy Pop's picture 58 pencils

why feed him.. he is already dead ;)

Wordnerd's picture 5243 pencils

oh, man. this is so disgusting! What kind of shitty strategy they are following anyway? It looks like a product for hospitals but this orange stuff surely isn't. everything you can do wrong done wrong :P

lawrencevon's picture 143 pencils

eew. this ad series is out to shock and disgust. shame.

a2o's picture 139 pencils

Gr88 Work...by Client servicing team ;-)

Actually Hat's off to client also...

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a2obspl

www.alpha2omega.in

BOOBJOB LOOBCANNON's picture 1872 pencils

I like the concept a lot, but the line is truly awful. Over exaggerates the message inappropriately and doesn't call-to-action the product.

7/10 for concept
0/10 for copy

Baloony

We're going to need more lube.

rcantalice's picture 40 pencils

I can't believe this comments...... the goal is to be disgusting. And it's an effective ad in this way. Not brilliant but effective. But I don't like the line also. It should be more sutil.

john doe's picture 1501 pencils

this campaign is not effective.
the least adveritsing can do is not to be damaging.
and that's exactly what this crap is.

lawrencevon's picture 143 pencils

a disgusting ad with a subtle line? what for? for class?

triniloz's picture 168 pencils

i dunno what looks worse the model of the maggots!!!!

nemesis's picture 637 pencils

this is horrendous! disgusting image and terrible photoshop work with the maggots.

m0u5emeow's picture 10 pencils

This ad has an strong visual, and cast quite an impression. Thats explain why so many comments. This is a very good example of a weak copy writting that pull down the ads.

nemesis's picture 637 pencils

The fact that it has this many comments, does not make it good. I think this ad is wrong in more ways that the copywriting.

enjolidesigns's picture 23 pencils

I wouldve used actual germs instead of maggots the imagery is too heavy...But other wise it caught my attention to actually looks at what the product name was....

The missing piece to your creative puzzle.

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Why?...because I'm a F*ckin Artist that's why...

conan o brien's picture 90 pencils

DISGUSTING. MAYBE YOU COULD'VE USED ANOTHER WAY TO SHOW FILTHY BESIDES BEING COVERED IN MAGGOTS AND BUGS. MAYBE COULD HAVE HAD THE HANDS COVERED IN SOMETHING ELSE BECAUSE THIS JUST MAKES MY STOMACH TURN.

michaelbend's picture 10 pencils

Corpse feeding with hand soap????? Please go back to classroom...

chano93's picture 62 pencils

THIS IS PURE SHIT.

StPepper23's picture 186 pencils

bähhhhh

arammart's picture 6 pencils

The client needs urgently a new agency... ;)

eone's picture 45 pencils

disgustiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiing

not even wanna enlarge the image
euy

tridipnandi's picture 172 pencils

simply bad art.

hatxi83's picture 11 pencils

what the .... ?

creativewannabe's picture 81 pencils

Let me guess...the client said: sales are bad, brand awareness is nothing, we are in trouble...

the agency said: let's shock the hell out of everyone! so, first we do the maggots, but wait that's not shocking enough! let's put a man who is clearly on the brink of death, so that the message is clear: if you don't use our detergent, you are in essence going to be a murderer!

arstewar's picture 234 pencils

what the hell is wrong with this dude?? haha jeez

felo araujo's picture 14 pencils

guys guys!..common!...it's clear!..Lurch was very sick, and Morticia Addams came to the rescue in her classic grotesque and macabre way!
i like this ad, make me laugh.
BTW, dear Priti, u need Photoshop training ASAP

nehasharma's picture 26 pencils

SHIT IDEA SHIT EXECUTION IN SHORT ITS SHIT

Jetstream's picture 115 pencils

I can't even look longer then one sec at the ad, is it really for a client?! Which client wants something like that?

anagha's picture 14 pencils

Get your scientific facts right first. No hand wash can claim to be 'totally clean'. Besides, when did cockroaches, earthworms and maggots become a part of hand hygiene?

Copysmith

Guest commenter's picture

that is Sanjay Khare :D

ax's picture

r those insects coming out of his mouth...

kant's picture 128 pencils

one of the worst ad I've ever seen in my whole life. Period.

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