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Go Daddy pulls tearjerker about puppy being sold online from Super Bowl spot

on Jan 28, 2015 | 0 comments

By Noel Young

GoDaddy has dropped plans to screen as a Super Bowl spot a tear-jerking commercial depicting a puppy being sold online.
Would-be viewers who want to check it out on You Tube are met with the message “This video is private.Sorry about that.”
After the commercial was shown on the Today show, producing stories in Time magazine USA Today and AdAge, the company said it wouldn’t air it after all. 40,000 viewers signed an online petition.
“The responses were emotional and direct. Many people urged us not to run the ad,” CEO Blake Irving wrote in a Read full story ›

Source: The Drum