On The Ground newsletter: Get a weekly dispatch from our international correspondents The industry run-regulator, Ad Standards, logged nearly 5,000 complaints across 252 ads this year, and found that ...

Commercial in Netherlands depicting festival-season chaos at ‘most terrible time of year’ prompted flurry of criticism online McDonald’s says it has removed an AI-generated Christmas advertisement in ...

McDonald's Netherlands released a Christmas ad on Dec. 6 that calls the holiday season "the worst time of the year." The ad quickly drew criticism, with many viewers condemning its grim message and ...

McDonald's Netherlands has taken down a Christmas advert made with Artificial Intelligence (AI) following online backlash. The 45-second advert was produced with generative AI clips and released ...

Update: McDonald’s has issued a very strange response to the drama. Thanks to the rise in popularity of generative AI, mainstream companies like Coca-Cola and Google are jumping on the bandwagon to ...

Clemson athletic director Graham Neff expressed his full support for head coach Dabo Swinney. The Tigers finished the season 7-5, their worst record since 2010 under Swinney. Clemson will play Penn ...

The latest headlines from our reporters across the US sent straight to your inbox each weekday Your briefing on the latest headlines from across the US McDonald’s in the Netherlands has been skewered ...

Julia Kagan is a financial/consumer journalist and former senior editor, personal finance, of Investopedia. Samantha (Sam) Silberstein, CFP®, CSLP®, EA, is an experienced financial consultant. She has ...

On the one hand, says Duffy, there's nothing new to see here. "If you watch the ad without the controversy around it, it's an innocuous ad for jeans, nothing new to see here. Typical denim, probably ...

A creative brief is like a road map. A good brief leads to imaginative and persuasive ads. And gets you there quickly. A bad brief starts you off in the wrong direction. So you have to stop, figure ...

The BBC could introduce adverts to help plug gaps in funding amid a surge in Britons refusing to pay the licence fee. Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy is set to reveal proposals for reforming BBC funding ...