2013 – A year to forget for

1. Dick smith 

First there was the issue of ‘that’ Australia Day. Featuring shipwrecked refugees and people proclaiming “I love Dick”, created by comedian Dan Ilic, the ad was ‘banned’ by every TV network, and eventually the Ad Standards Board, although many called it out as a deliberate scam.

Smith then took to social media with the hilarious early April Fool’s Day joke, claiming Vegemite would be renamed “Yankymite” because owners Kraft are a US firm. Hilarious. Later in the year Smith put out a desperate plea to find a creative agency to save his ailing business and threatened to “move to Monaco” if he couldn’t source the “next John Singleton”. The private jet is waiting Dick…

2. Aussiemite