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Billboards Are Always in Bloom

Under the Influence with Terry O'Reilly

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The Importance of Visualizing the Toxic Beauty Issue

Research showed that one-third of Canadian girls are unhappy with their appearance. More than 50,000 Canadian girls 14 to 17 received injections for cosmetic reasons last year alone. Dove's injectable billboard brought attention to the toxic beauty issue by actually visualizing it. The ad agency found a red kia in a junkyard and parked it under the billboard. A week later, they removed one of the styrofoam muffins from the billboard using a 50-foot cherry picker.

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