Advertisements featuring zombies, a nose-picking child, and a blink-and-you’ll-miss-it rude gesture topped the list of Australia’s annual roll-call of the commercials that got viewers talking and complaining in 2025.
The industry run-regulator, Ad Standards, logged nearly 5,000 complaints across 252 ads this year, and found that 79 breached the code of Australian Association of National Advertisers (AANA), a national body for advertisers based in Sydney.
