posted on Sep. 01, 2025 at 8:00 amSep 1, 2025

The Spin: A ton of typos take the limelight in August

posted on Sep. 01, 2025 at 8:00 amSep 1, 2025

Every month, The Spin maintains an account of mishaps in the world of communications. Here are some we noticed in August 2025.

Looks like everyone had a bit more time to rest, relax, scroll and send their submissions through while on holiday during the month of August because the inbox of The Spin filled up with some fun ad howlers.
A big one was on a big Noon Food billboard in the UAE, which advertised ‘Savings on Gravings’. Would it be too forward to call that a grave error? For those who say it was intentional, surely, you don’t want people thinking of limestone headstones when it’s time for lunch? Maybe, this one should be carved in stone.
Meanwhile, The Times of India, a leading national daily in the Indian sub-continent, published a Flipkart ad for an iPhone sale on the front page. The ad was found �

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Anup Oommen is the Editor of Campaign Middle East at Motivate Media Group, a well-reputed moderator, and a multiple award-winning journalist with more than 15 years of experience at some of the most reputable and credible global news organisations, including Reuters, CNN, and Motivate Media Group. As the Editor of Campaign Middle East, Anup heads market-leading coverage of advertising, media, marketing, PR, events and experiential, digital, the wider creative industries, and more, through the brand’s digital, print, events, directories, podcast and video verticals. As such he’s a key stakeholder in the Campaign Global brand, the world’s leading authority for the advertising, marketing and media industries, which was first published in the UK in 1968.