The digital and out-of-home ads have been fun, too, featuring various body parts dressed up as food dishes. "We created ads that parody advertising from popular fast food restaurants with a zombie twist. But one regionally tailored billboard for the German market made some passersby queasy, and has reportedly been pulled—an ad featuring a human finger sliced up and seasoned like a currywurst dish. Los Angeles agency And Company created many of the ads for the campaign, as you can see on its website. Netflix went so far as to set up currywurst food trucks, Tagesspiegel said, though the campaign was halted after more than 50 complaints poured in.
We emphasise 'advised', as the regulator cannot force Netflix to remove the adverts - the streaming service willingly took them down. If you've never seen Netflix's Santa Clarita Diet then you need to know that a) it has nothing to do with Christmas and b) it stars Drew Barrymore as a zombie. © Twitter @cloclocreativeAdvertisement - Continue Reading BelowOver 50 complaints were sent to the German advertising regulator Deutscher Werberat (via Business Insider), and they advised Netflix to remove the adverts. Just hit 'Like' on our Digital Spy Facebook page and 'Follow' on our @digitalspy Twitter account and you're all set. There's a lot of icky scenes of eating things you probably shouldn't eat, but it's all done in a darkly comic way.
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