Photoshop Fail Floss Ads

Y&R Brazil's Funny Anatomically Odd Campaign for Colgate Dental Floss

It's usually a really horrible experience for a brand when its ads (and subjects) are caught with poor photoshopping, but perhaps even worse is being seen with something stuck between your teeth, which is the message sent by this series of ads for Colgate dental floss in Brazil.

Showcasing images of terrible photoshop blunders -- see if you can spot them all! -- the ads say on the right of each image that not even a horrible photoshop error will draw more attention "than a mouth without care."

Created by Y&R Brazil, these Colgate dental floss ads are a clever play on the plethora of photoshopping problems consumers have been seeing in advertising and magazines over the past few years.

Photoshop Blunders
Opportunity to develop innovative editing tools and software that prevent or correct photoshop errors.
Dental Care Awareness
Potential for disruptive technologies to raise awareness about the importance of dental care and oral hygiene.
Authentic Advertising
Opportunity to create more genuine and relatable advertising campaigns that resonate with consumers.

Industries Being Reshaped

Graphic Design and Editing
Innovative tools and software in the graphic design industry can prevent and correct photoshop errors.
Dental Care
Disruption in the dental care industry through the development of new products, services, and technologies for oral hygiene.
Advertising and Marketing
Emergence of more authentic and relatable advertising campaigns by leveraging real-life scenarios.
SCORE
6.4 out of 10
GENDER
50% Men50% Women
MARKETTop markets: South America
GENERATION
  • Gen Z
  • Gen Alpha
  • Millennial (primary audience)
  • Gen X (primary audience)
POPULARITY
Popularity 84%
Activity 99%
Freshness 8%

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