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What is this Ad for?: Wil shows the beginning of an ad without identifying the product, then asks the panel to guess what it is for.Ad of the Week: This is where Wil and the panel look at an ad and they discuss it and how effective it is.A controversial anti-discrimination ad by Sydney agency The Foundry to promote 'fat pride', which depicted people telling racist and homophobic jokes, resulted in the ABC pulling the segment from the episode, deeming that it would breach the ABC's editorial guidelines.

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Previous examples have included whale meat, tourism in Baghdad, the beleaguered Australian Democrats political party, and a proposed invasion of New Zealand, which provoked a response from the New Zealand government and several NZ YouTube viewers, although the final episode of Series One provided some balance in the form of a promotion for tourists not to visit Australia.

The Pitch: Two advertising companies are given a brief to create an advertisement for an 'unsellable' product.Examples include Carl Williams and David Hicks. Endorse Me: Wil Anderson gives the panel the challenge of finding a sponsor for people who are famous for all the wrong reasons.

Topics covered include beer, underwear, chocolate and banks. How Do You Sell?: This segment every week looks at advertising tactics used by advertisers to choose one product over another.The spinoff series titled Gruen began airing on 9 September 2015, following the original concept of The Gruen Transfer series. Another spinoff series entitled Gruen Sweat examining the branding and marketing of the 2012 London Olympics began airing from 25 July 2012. A second spinoff series, Gruen Planet, took over from the fourth series of The Gruen Transfer on 28 September 2011, focusing on corporate and government global media strategies and public relations. Ī spinoff series, Gruen Nation, aired during the 2010 Australian federal election and again for the 2013 Australian federal election.

The Gruen Transfer was nominated for an AFI award for Best Light Entertainment Television Series in 2008.

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The concept has been sold to TV production companies in the UK, Denmark, France, Italy, Portugal, South Africa and Spain however, the program itself seems to be unavailable in those markets and is blocked on YouTube and Apple's iTunes store, with the message 'Viewable in Australia only'. The show's debut episode drew an audience of nearly 1.3 million, the highest debut for an entertainment program in the ABC's history. The title refers to the Gruen transfer, the response to designed disorientation cues in retail environments. Anderson is accompanied by a panel of advertising industry experts including Russel Howcroft (originally of George Patterson Y&R) and Todd Sampson (previously of Leo Burnett). The program is hosted by Wil Anderson and produced by Andrew Denton's production company, Zapruder's Other Films, now part of CJZ. Gruen (previously known as The Gruen Transfer) is an Australian television program focusing on advertising, which debuted on the ABC on.