The news last week that the Christmas advert from Iceland — a UK supermarket chain specializing in frozen food — has been banned is a bad decision. Iceland’s advert — a repackaging of a short, ...

Liana Chua receives funding from the Arcus Foundation and the European Research Council (Starting Grant no. 758494). Most of these responses revolve around the (inaccurate but powerful) claim that ...

The boss said the controversy around the ad being prevented from broadcast on legal grounds has "re-written" all of the traditional rules. Last month, the grocer revealed it had inked a deal with ...

It ends with a dedication to “the 25 orangutans we lose every day” and a message that Iceland is removing palm oil from all its label products. Iceland was planning to air the commercial on TV as its ...

According to Chris Mundy, managing director of TV ad clearing house Clearcast, the work was banned because Iceland re-purposed a film from Greenpeace, which "needs to demonstrate it is not a political ...