More Bad Ideas for Ad Campaigns Featuring Supermodels

Page Barnes
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2 min readApr 6, 2017

In response to the controversy surrounding Kendall Jenner’s Pepsi ad, advertising agencies around the world are rethinking campaigns featuring supermodels solving problems through product placement. Here are some of the campaigns that are being reconsidered:

1. Gigi Hadid changes the minds of a room full of climate change deniers by lecturing them about polar bears while passing out Klondike bars.

2. Ashley Graham saves an endangered white rhino by ordering camouflage apparel for it on Amazon Prime.

3. Miranda Kerr solves America’s gun violence crisis by offering a trade of guns for Chipotle burritos.

4. Gisele Bundschen greets desperate migrants crossing our Southern border by offering them refreshing bottles of ice-cold Aquafina before turning them over to the border patrol.

5. Tyra Banks convinces ISIS to renounce terror by feeding them Pringles and teaching them to smize.

6. Naomi Campbell negotiates an Israeli-Palestinian peace agreement thanks to an unlimited data plan from Verizon.

7. Kate Moss saves a puppy that has fallen down a well with a rope she weaved out of Tampax.

8. Chrissy Teigen solves the problem of famine in South Sudan by handing out gift certificates to Applebee’s.

9. Karlie Kloss helps dozens of schoolgirls escape from Boko Haram by distracting the militants with Candy Crush for their iPhones.

10. Adriana Lima convinces Kim Jong-Un to give up his nuclear arms program by offering him a bowl of Lucky Charms and teaching him to dance like a leprechaun.

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Page Barnes
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Mom, Lawyer, Writer, Hot Mess. (Retired) Founder of The Haven.