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London’s biggest ad agencies targeted in anti-advertising climate protests

on Oct 11, 2021 | 0 comments

By Ellen Ormesher

Climate crisis

A UK-wide ‘subvertising’ campaign is targeting leading advertising agencies including Ogilvy, MediaCom and VCCP over their role in facilitating the climate crisis.

Over 100 billboard and bus stop posters were installed over the weekend, without permission, in 20 towns and cities – linking the advertising agencies with their high-carbon clients such as Shell, BP, Jaguar Land Rover and British Airways.

The campaign forms part of four days of action taking place across Europe in protest against the advertising industry and its sponsorship for high-carbon products and misleading ‘greenwashing’ on behalf of fossil fuel companies.

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Source: The Drum