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OAA Apologise for "Career Women Make Bad Mothers" Campaign

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OAA · 06/01/2010 16:16

The OAA are running a campaign to demonstrate the power of outdoor advertising to drive people online. This is being done in conjunction with a new website called ?Britainthinks.com? which encourages debate amongst the people of Britain.

We regret any misunderstanding that led to feelings of offence on the part of members of the Mumsnet community.

The intention of the website is to generate debate by posing questions that are deemed to be socially relevant by members of society.

We did not intend to cause any offence and we would stress that the questions posed were not the opinions of the OAA or any of its members.

Three posters were designed to initiate the debate using sport, life and politics and these are supported by dozens of other questions on the website itself.

Regrettably the question relating to ?career women? has caused offence and the OAA unreservedly apologises to anyone who has been offended. This was not our intention and, to ensure that this misunderstanding does not persist, instructions have been given to remove this poster.

Subject to the vagaries of the weather, all copy will be removed as soon as possible. The sites currently carrying this poster will be either blanked-out or carry one of the other designs. The poster will also be removed from the ?Britainthinks.com? website. All Digital posters have already been removed.

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BecauseImWorthIt · 12/01/2010 13:04

Nowhere to comment on that blog either, I notice ...

mrsbaldwin · 12/01/2010 13:07

But ... for a bunch of women who merely buy products ... we didn't do bad

morningpaper · 12/01/2010 13:18

bit shocked at BANKERS OR WANKERS

I mean REALLY what is the MATTER with them eh?

BecauseImWorthIt · 12/01/2010 13:27

And in any case, being a wanker these days is much more respectable.

CiderIUpAndSetIFree · 12/01/2010 13:31

Bit odd, the agency presumably released that 'wanker' artwork, I wonder why?

BecauseImWorthIt · 12/01/2010 13:39

Unless it's a spoof?

AitchTwoOhOneOh · 12/01/2010 13:48

more likely it's sharon, the new MN/(beta) double agent. we've raised her consciousness, sisters.

(Monkey gets a fair bit of its info from disgruntled employees, i believe).

mrsbaldwin · 12/01/2010 13:48

And another thing ... the inference in the MediaMonkey item that career women were deemed a safer group to offend than bankers seems like a bit of 'with hindsight' creative thinking to me. If there had been more insight at the planning stage, Beta would not have initially reacted to Mumsnet debate with lawyers.

More likely OAA decided (if they even ever saw this iteration of the ad) that it couldn't use the term '*ankers' even by implication on a billboard.

How much do the financial services industry spend on outdoor ads these days, BTW? Remembering back to the top 20 big spenders list on the OAA's website, they were all (bar COI/Govt) FMCG (eg phones, drinks).

SorryBeta · 12/01/2010 13:55

Hello,

Please click on the following link for an update on the poster removal and new headline community.brandrepublic.com/blogs/campbelllacebetablog/default.aspx

We're on the case and will be in touch as soon as we have a further update.

Best
(Beta)

AitchTwoOhOneOh · 12/01/2010 13:58

the more i think about it, the more i am Royally Fucked OFF that even the guardian can't get its head round a simple venn diagram with working women, a career in banking press and mkting and motherhood at the centre.

LeninGrad · 12/01/2010 14:00

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AitchTwoOhOneOh · 12/01/2010 14:01

meh, i'm over it with you crazy (beta) kids if you're still being lawyerish about a joke about mrs lace's handbags. any reason you didn't choose 'sexism is bad for business' or 'sexist advertising is a waste of space'? both infinitely better lines.

AitchTwoOhOneOh · 12/01/2010 14:02

yes, good decision to give the money to refuge.

BecauseImWorthIt · 12/01/2010 14:05

Good decision, (Beta). I'm happy with the ad.

Now can we stop being watched over by you all?

LeninGrad · 12/01/2010 14:06

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AitchTwoOhOneOh · 12/01/2010 14:15

i think the 'us all' is a bit milquetoast, tbh, but at least it's something.

Swedington · 12/01/2010 14:22

Blimey. It gets worse.

Monkey wankers make bad mothers of bankers.

kateisgreat · 12/01/2010 14:47

There is still one of these posters up in Sheffield. I just took this picture on my lunch break. twitpic.com/xsffz
Not good enough...

mrsbaldwin · 12/01/2010 15:21

Oh I don't know BecauseI'mWorthIt - I'm quite enjoying the extra audience of Beta et al

BecauseImWorthIt · 12/01/2010 15:22
Grin
mrsbaldwin · 12/01/2010 15:24

Just arranging to leak an item to MediaMonkey about how in fact the BritainThinks website and 'Career Women...' ads were really entirely orchestrated by Mumsnetters, working undercover, to manipulate the ad industry and drive more web traffic to Mumsnet.com

Swedington · 12/01/2010 15:28

mrsbaldwin - do you know you are being nominated (several nominations) to attend the Mumsnet kitchen table? It's a sticky thread so somewhere near the top of active convos.

mrsbaldwin · 12/01/2010 15:30

Gosh. The kitchen table, how exciting! I hope it doesn't have congealed Shreddies on it, like mine does.

mrsbaldwin · 12/01/2010 15:42

(Shreddie congealment - now that is another discussion entirely...)

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