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I will be honest I loved the Y&R ad and it really made us search for a solution. The only thing that was a little insulting was the fact that it did not respect the local culture, it went overboard in regard to correctness I think…

BTW Zaid i like the title ” Jordan Advertising A-wars: Y&R vs. PG” ,,, this is quite creative

The Y&R ad was brilliant. A strong idea nicely executed and straight to the point.

The Publicis ad?

They played right into Y&R’s hands.

A pathetic weak response.

Badly concieved.

Badly art directed and badly written.

Overall a complete mess.

The guys over at Y&R must be delighted.

That’s not what I heard.

Apparently they all went to eight on Abdoun Circle and celebrated the biggest win in the history of the Jordan advertising awards.

Finishing I believe at 5am the next morning.

Well, true, Y&R have churned out a much more creative, and also aggressive concept than Publicis, but it reflects such poor manners and taste. Publicis were trying to be very diplomatic in their response in order to gain the compassion of clients, and I think that generally, Y&R will be perceived as arrogant. What annoys me is that I’ve hardly come across a neat advertising campaign from either firm, and yet they blow up their creativity and wits when it comes to rivalry and competition, and not when it is regarding the client.

i feel sorry for who thinks we are still in the stone ages.
jordan is not what you think ,be more open minded when you look at AD’s next time.
if you want to have world class AD’s stop whining and don’t use culture as a way to put down great work.
and what Publicis did is waited 2 days to come up with a stolen AD ,maybe the internet was slow or something .
hope next time they can count on the creative they got not look for ideas of the net ,what a shame.
good luck next time i guess .

i wasn’t there actually i was busy creating something more useful, i bet that you are the one who did this Y&R af

btw you have to behave and have more respect, your negativity wont get you anywhere my, nick name is RESTLESS.

and please Talk logic and reason

I disagree with both of you actually, what I like the most is Saatchi & Saatchi ad, simple & neat, ethical & (Really) straight to the point.

I dont think giving the credits to a foreigner creative director for such work IN JORDAN is fair at all.. afterall as mentioned, we still live in a very traditional culture, and this CD probably has no appreciation or recognition of it.. i blame the team who work with him for allowing such a disgraceful idea to show in newspapers!!

i’m sorry that Y&R feel that way, since when advertising is that aggressive and nasty in this country?!! we dont have to reach this stage, we shouldn’t actually! where’s the high spirit of competition?! that’s not the proper way to deal with winning! shame on you Y&R!!!!

again, because most of you seem to forget, we’re only expressing our personal opinions here!!! its getting really ridiculous with all these comments, stop the silly friction and grow up!!!

Has everyone forgotten the horrendous contribution Saatchi’s made?

A true waste of paper. That ad killed 100 trees.

Again…To my humble knowledge, advertising doesn’t lead society, it in fact reflects society and I don’t think that seeing a middle finger (although it wasn’t that direct) in an ad is not that big of an issue or “taboo” unless you never seen one before! if that’s the case, you should pay a visit to Jordan and see it for yourself.

This would never have happenend if Ads of the World didnt publish the ad that Publicis copied.

Why is no-one thinking of the poor creatives that had their crap idea copied?

CD of P.G, you also need to defend yourself. Shocking shocking work. I hear Saatchi’s may be looking for somone soon.

Objects needs an editor….

Gibbo, if Saatchi ad killed 100 trees then Y&R Ads killed millions ,, i think that Saatchi ad was the best, coz it was polite and more emotional dictated to their clients

Cmon guys.

Surely the house ad is your chance to do something great. Very few constraints. A positive message. instead, eveyone either did bland work, or felt they had to comepte with the big guys.

Y & R did something controversial (barely), that we are still talking about. Great publicity for them.

And the Saatchis ad. The power of love. Cmon. Isnt advertising about creating ideas based on insights? Not puns.

i wonder what would a CEO of any local prestigious company think of the agency he’s dealing with after seeing them giving the finger to it’s competitor on papers

remember that Jordan is still mainly a conservative market with few exceptions

Gibbo,
If you like Y&R ads its your point of view, I dont mind at all, but if you are in the level of fingers & mosquitoes, then you are too too far to judge on Saatchi’s ads.

& one more thing Gibbo, GIB MIN HOOON

ouch Uncle Sam.

Saatchi’s can be judged and they should be. Too often they produce garbage.

Just like the Arabic diatribe that you spew out.

Póg Mo Thóin

Hehehehe!
Now I can see you are pissed,

but it took so much time to understand it, which means that you could be too stupid to understand it, or you are a stupid forigener whos trying to impress others,

any way you can kiss mine also

P.S. Ferme La. Tu as un Chien

whats happened with my comment guys

Peter…or creative rules which ever you prefer, would you like to open up the book of all the ads you’ve copied since you’ve been here? Lets start with the tire ads, or maybe the Knot not ad, or would you prefer some quiet so you can concentrate on stealing a new concept for the brief in front of you?

It’s very easy (and just a cheap shot) to accuse people of ripping off work without prooving and backing up what you’re saying.

Like the way the Publicis Knock knock ad was exposed on
http://adsoftheworld.com/media/print/screen_entertainment_newspaper_ab...

They even used the same door knocker….unbelievable.

So where’s the proof on the award winning Knot Not ad?

Or the award winning tire campaign?

Or anything else for that matter.

If you don’t (and I bet you can’t) you just fall into yet another bitter and twisted Y&R hater.

(And believe me there are thousands here)

The link above didn’t work so here’s the ad in question.

http://adsoftheworld.com/media/print/screen_entertainment_newspaper_abhishek

commenter, I agree with you !

wow that was really hard