Ugly boots: There's a vaccine for that!

Not really, but "Uggcitrine" is a pretty good parody of clichés in big pharma marketing for birth control and STI drugs.



Via Illegal Advertising

This stop-motion animation may put you off your meds

When I watched this the first time, I thought, "Cool video!  But I'll bet it's going to try to sell me some questionable herbal remedies."


Help Remedies - Take Less from Wulf Casting on Vimeo.

But it didn't. It's an ad for Help, a pharmaceutical company that claims to simplify the way we take medications for common complaints.

"Help® is a new type of drug company—a drug company that promises you less: 

Less drugs 

All of Help®’s solutions are made with a single active ingredient. Help, I have a headache, for example, contains only acetamin-ophen,whereas some other kinds of headache medicines may contain two or three active ingredients.  

Less dyes 

The drugs themselves are made with the fewest possible coatings and dyes. Many drugs are colored and coated for decorative purposes. Help® would rather people didn’t have to ingest decoration. 

Less confusion 

Each product is titled after the specific symptom it is meant to solve, e.g. Help I can’t sleep, instead of an unrelated brand name, so that people understand clearly what they are taking and what they are taking it for."

Interesting concept, "less/fewer" grammar outrage aside...

Ad by agencytwofifteen/McCann, San Francisco
Via I Believe in Advertising

It's written all over your face

Dolex is the name under which Panadol pain and cold symptom relief drugs are marketed in Columbia. This attention-getting (but seriously unnerving) campaign is one of those ones that tells people that they look like shit when they're sick.

They'd be better off staying home and away from other people, but anyway...

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"Sore Throat"

"Watery Eyes"

"Stuffy Nose"

Ads by REP/GREY Worldwide, Colombia
Via AOTW

F'd Ad Fridays: Possibly fake, definitely tasteless, 9/11 referencing ad

No provenance (found on Reddit) but Jenburkt is a real pharma in India.