https://feeds.thelocal.com/ Read the latest news and views from Germany in English en-us news@thelocal.com (TheLocal) webmaster@thelocal.com (TheLocal) TheLocal RSS Feed Many German apartment buildings have a designated bin for unwanted advertisement pamphlets. An opt-in system may help reduce waste, but some believe it could be damaging for local business. https://www.thelocal.de/20200929/please-no-flyers-should-postal-advertising-be-more-strictly-controlled-in-germany Tue, 29 Sep 2020 13:52:24 +0200 please-no-flyers-should-postal-advertising-be-more-strictly-controlled-in-germany Germany's Volkswagen (VW) has pulled an Instagram ad that showed a giant white hand pushing around a black person, saying it was "surprised and shocked" that viewers decried it as racist. https://www.thelocal.de/20200520/germanys-vw-pulls-racist-ad-after-outcry Wed, 20 May 2020 14:21:14 +0200 germanys-vw-pulls-racist-ad-after-outcry More and more children in Germany are much too overweight, according to the World Health Organization, who call for advertisements to be more restricted. https://www.thelocal.de/20171229/too-many-german-kids-are-overweight-who-calls-for-tighter-ad-restrictions Fri, 29 Dec 2017 12:37:24 +0100 too-many-german-kids-are-overweight-who-calls-for-tighter-ad-restrictions Despite their "Hot, Hot, Baby" advert being named the most sexist campaign in Germany, a Hamburg gym aren't worried. They've used the attention to help out a colleague, they tell The Local. https://www.thelocal.de/20170908/hamburg-gym-ad-voted-most-sexist-in-germany Fri, 08 Sep 2017 18:27:38 +0200 hamburg-gym-ad-voted-most-sexist-in-germany One of the parties in the Berlin government has set out its definition for what constitutes sexism in advertising, after Berlin agreed to ban sexist billboards last year. https://www.thelocal.de/20170619/berlin-moves-to-ban-advertising-with-beautiful-but-dumb-women Mon, 19 Jun 2017 17:37:12 +0200 berlin-moves-to-ban-advertising-with-beautiful-but-dumb-women The German firm behind Adblock Plus, the adblocker software, on Wednesday announced the launch of a service of "Acceptable Ads" for content publishers. https://www.thelocal.de/20160915/adblock-plus-launches-acceptable-ads-service Thu, 15 Sep 2016 10:59:54 +0200 adblock-plus-launches-acceptable-ads-service They used to be byword for cheapness and no-frills shopping. But now Aldi have released their first ever German TV advert - and it doesn't appear to have just been filmed on someone's phone. https://www.thelocal.de/20160909/aldi-releases-first-ever-television-advert Fri, 09 Sep 2016 13:40:03 +0200 aldi-releases-first-ever-television-advert Most Germans don’t understand English phrases when they appear in advertising but find them cool and interesting anyway. https://www.thelocal.de/20160229/english-in-adverts-confuses-yet-impresses-germans Mon, 29 Feb 2016 17:25:24 +0100 english-in-adverts-confuses-yet-impresses-germans Ministers have agreed on plans to ban all outdoor tobacco advertising by 2020, a leaked report showed on Thursday. https://www.thelocal.de/20151105/tobacco-advertising-could-disappear-by-2020 Thu, 05 Nov 2015 14:22:16 +0100 tobacco-advertising-could-disappear-by-2020 Supermarket Edeka has struck on a winning formula of offbeat, laugh-out-loud viral advertising recently. A new campaign gets users to guess whether people in a video are having an orgasm or enjoying an Edeka snack. https://www.thelocal.de/20150723/sushi-or-orgasm-asks-german-supermarket Thu, 23 Jul 2015 17:43:58 +0200 sushi-or-orgasm-asks-german-supermarket A food watchdog presented Nestle with a prize to avoid on Wednesday for the cheekiest false advertising of the year. The runner-up was a chicken soup with no chicken in a vote of almost 160,000 Germans. https://www.thelocal.de/20141001/nestle-wins-golden-windbag-for-sugary-baby-food Wed, 01 Oct 2014 13:22:00 +0200 nestle-wins-golden-windbag-for-sugary-baby-food A district in Berlin could become an advertising-free zone after a citizens' group collected enough signatures to make councillors consider their demands for a ban on outside adverts. https://www.thelocal.de/20131108/berlin-citizens-group-fights-outside-advertising Fri, 08 Nov 2013 09:57:00 +0100 berlin-citizens-group-fights-outside-advertising A Berlin-based performance artist is raising eyebrows in European capitals with a risque drive to expose the role of advertising in every day life - by pulling his trousers down in public. https://www.thelocal.de/20130807/51275 Wed, 07 Aug 2013 16:33:00 +0200 51275 Innocent members of the public have been tricked into thinking they were the victims of a nightmare mix-up for a German advertising gag, which put their pictures on a fake news broadcast saying they were being hunted by the police. https://www.thelocal.de/20130219/48031 Tue, 19 Feb 2013 07:42:00 +0100 48031 The mayor of Düsseldorf admits his city is “respected but not liked” and launched a campaign to try to get outsiders to change their minds – taking the :D grinning emoticon symbol as new logo. https://www.thelocal.de/20121127/46425 Tue, 27 Nov 2012 16:32:00 +0100 46425 German online media overtook traditional television advertising revenue for the first time last year, while the entire industry is set on a path of steady growth, a new report shows. https://www.thelocal.de/20121023/45725 Tue, 23 Oct 2012 13:03:00 +0200 45725 Germany's king of kitsch Dieter Bohlen, who earns a fortune criticising teenagers with sarcastic one-liners on a TV talent show, is going to the European Court of Human Rights over an advertising campaign that mocked him. https://www.thelocal.de/20120427/42211 Fri, 27 Apr 2012 13:54:00 +0200 42211 A picture of a steak branded with the slogan “Tofu is gay meat” is giving managers at a restaurant chain stomach-ache after it was designed as an advert for them but never used – and is now provoking outrage on the internet. https://www.thelocal.de/20120321/41471 Wed, 21 Mar 2012 18:48:00 +0100 41471 German television viewers will no longer be blasted by loud adverts, now private broadcasters agreed to join state groups in turning down the volume of their adverts. https://www.thelocal.de/20111207/39347 Wed, 07 Dec 2011 09:49:00 +0100 39347 The long-time face of the Germany's Alice phone company, Vanessa Hessler, has been sacked after she defended the family of late Libyan dictator Muammar Qaddafi and his son Mutassim, her former lover. https://www.thelocal.de/20111031/38561 Mon, 31 Oct 2011 16:53:00 +0100 38561