Fake Hurts Real: How Adidas’ Visual Storytelling Sent a Compelling Warning to Imitators

The footwear giant takes a clever approach to deal with replicas

Markairn T.
Better Marketing
Published in
6 min readJun 28, 2021

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Fake Hurts Real ad showing a bandaged foot.
Source: Flickr

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