Banned Adverts !

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g_UOVFqjay0
The advert shows obvious reason to why it was banned. In the advert some guy with a mask runs after a woman. At the end the woman manages to escape and the masked stranger slows down in defeat, showing that with the Nike trainers you can get “super speed”. This very clearly had scared some of their viewers of the adverts and therefore received complaints to be banned. Especially the young generation who may have found it very disturbing.
I personally think that by banning the advert the ASA made a good choice. A lot of the viewers whether young or old must of gotten very scared after watching the advert. Also rather than selling their trainers it might actually scare some people because they might think something like that could happen to them.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A4_SNdsGcTA
In this advert the pigeon is killed by the bonnet of the car. This again has obvious reasons for it to be banned. Many animal activists may have had complaint severely to the ASA. This may have also disturbed some children.
I think it was a good idea to ban the advert because thought it was meant to come across in a satirical way, it had upset some people. Also it could influence some viewers to be “Evil” like the car.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kGxWxjEr6F8
This was a kinder surprise advertisement which was broadcasted in the 80’s between 4pm-5pm which was the ideal slot for children’s programs. Which seems to be ok, but the thing is that most of the children got scared of the cartoon image of “humpty dumpty”.
I think that the advertisement meant no harm and the character was not intentionally supposed to look scary but. Banning the advert could be seen both good and bad because it was not intentional but it did scare the kids. So I support both ideas of it being banned and also not being banned.