The ad may have been deliberately made to provoke outrage. As Bloomberg notes, the advertising generated more than $7 million in publicity despite the mostly negative commentary. “To think for a second that they didn’t know it was going to be controversial would be crazy,” University of Detroit marketing professor Michael Bernacchi tells Bloomberg. “They didn’t just willy-nilly put this out there.”
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