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WikiLeaks Inspires Sanitary Pad Ads

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On billboards in Pakistan.

It sounds like a Saturday Night Live sketch, but turns out this is real: A Pakistani advertising company has created an ad campaign inspired by WikiLeaks. Billboards in Karachi read “WikiLeaks … Butterfly doesn’t,” advertising a popular feminine hygiene product. Although Pakistani advertising doesn’t normally dip into politics, some in the ad business said this was too good an opportunity to pass up. “We have received a huge response from the public and everyone has commended us on it,” said Syed Amjad Hussain, head of the business development at RG Blue Communications, which pitched the campaign.

Read it at Times of India

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