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The Biggest Brand Fails of 2012

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posted: 5 months ago

Harvey Nichols Model

We know, we're so done with 2012, too. But we thought this feature from Ad Week was pretty funny.

It lists 20 of the year's biggest brand fails. Among them....

Harvey Nick's bad taste ad featuring a model who has wet herself

Amazon's Hunger Games-spoiler Kindle ad

Ikea's removal of women from its catalogue for the Saudi version of the publication

Spy Sunglasses ridiculous 'Happy to sit on your face' billboard

An store in India that chose the name 'Hitler'

Belvedere's inappropriate ad about 'going down'

A French kids' clothing line that features children frolicking on a nude beach

Good grief! How did all this crazy business get approved? That's what we'd like to know.

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