The Drum

Ad of the Day: Crown Paint - Express Yourself

The vibrancy of the colours is quite striking in this commercial for Crown Paint. Brightly coloured offerings are used to spell out the words that will define your décor choices if you opt to use the ...
Marketing Week

Crown Paints’ ‘Hannah and Dave’ ad may be sexist, but it’s also salient

Oh Christ, Dave! Look what you’ve done. You sexist fucker. When the story of Hannah and Dave first aired a week ago, there must have been high hopes at Crown Paints, the brand behind the campaign, ...
The Drum

Latest Crown Paints TV campaign aims to persuade consumers to reflect their personalities on their walls

The campaign, created by BJL, will go live today (23 August), with the aim of encouraging consumers to be ‘bolder and braver’ with their colour choices to reflect their personalities. Production of ...
Cosmopolitan

"Love a nice bit of misogyny with my interior decorating": Paint advert branded “offensive” by viewers

Viewers have branded an advert for Crown Paints "misogynistic" and "offensive", prompting the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) to step in. The TV advert sees a couple called Hannah and Dave ...
BBC

Crown Paints: Hannah & Dave ad prompts dozens of complaints

The advertising watchdog has received dozens of complaints about a paint advert which a comedian called "massively offensive". The Advertising Standards Authority said it was considering investigating ...