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Using JFK’s assassination to sell Mazdas? That won’t end well


jpd80

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It came from the Israel office of BBR Saatchi & Saatchi.

The print ad features a hand-drawn sketch of the John F Kennedy

motorcade at Dealey Plaza in Dallas in 1963, just before he was

assassinated.

 

Kennedy sits in the back of the limo, next to wife Jackie…

 

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The only colored detail on the otherwise black-and-white image is a yellow light in the sixth-floor window

of the Texas School Book Depository – where JFK’s assassin Lee Harvey Oswald waited with his rifle.

 

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You see, the yellow dot represents Mazda’s blind spot monitoring system, which illuminates on the rear-view mirro

r when its radar detects an unseen threat.

 

 

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Completing the ad is the slogan: “Spot the threat in time”.

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But it may never be published; it’s just too hard to imagine Mazda being ok with that. So why does it exist? It’s almost surely a “scam ad”, which are created by the ad industry’s creative departments for one purpose only: to win ad industry awards, which are vital to the success of careers and agencies. It’s an issue that surfaced some years ago, and has been called out by Ad Age and clients alike for years as being detrimental to the industry and its clients. Yet it persists, as this ad makes most painfully clear. And one wonders: does Mazda even know it exists?

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