“Soap War” Ads Resume With New, Invented Problems: Smells Sell!

By Martha Rosenberg

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Are you old enough to remember the Madison Avenue fabrications (pun intended) of “Ring Around the Collar” and “Visible Panty Line”? If not, ask your parents. Inventing a non-existing problem to sell or boost a product is a tried and true consumer product company ruse (think Big Pharma) and it continues today in the soap […]

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