Client: Timotei Natural Style.
Year: 2004.
Credit: Andrea Stillaci, Vincent Detre and L.Escoffier.
Creative Agency: JWT, France.
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Client: Sculpting Gel.
Year: 2005.
Credit: Matthew Barnes and Thomas Cullinan.
Creative Agency: BBDO, South Africa.
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Client: Affiches Gel.
Year: 2005.
Credit: Francois Lesaint, Frederic Potteau, Thomas Stern and Thierry Chantier.
Creative Agency: FCB, France.
Anybody would be awestruck seeing these advertisements based on the same idea for different companies but for a similar product. These ads showing lions with different hair styles are created by different agencies for hair styling brands. Moreover, it is really poignant to witness when a unique idea is being repeated. Though we are witnessing such examples every now and then still the ad industry should do something on the problem of shortage of fresh ideas.
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However, the practice of this kind we counter very often even then these ads are stunningly similar where everything is almost similar besides the agencies.
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