Bona's AI-de-aged Jackie Chan epic cost ¥350M and grossed ¥80M
Legend sold a deepfaked 27-year-old Jackie Chan as its hook; audiences rejected the AI face, and the ¥350M film grossed ¥79.9M — a loss of over ¥300M.
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3,222 PUBLISHED CASES · REGULARLY UPDATEDNorway fined an influencer 500,000 kroner for hidden ads for her own clothing brand
Sara Emilie Tandberg's Snapchat posts for her brand Careless were not marked as ads. Forbrukertilsynet called it hidden marketing: a 500,000-kroner fine.
Read the caseXibei is closing 102 stores — 30% of its network — after the pre-made food crisis
Founder Jia Guolong confirmed Xibei will shut 102 stores — 30% of the chain — after January 2026 sales fell 50% year-on-year in the pre-made food fallout.
Read the caseFashion PR's agency of the future lasted three years
A 25-year London firm was rebuilt in 2020 as ScienceMagic.Inc around data and hype — it lost £2M in year one and was liquidated October 2023.
Read the caseLG's Rollable phone was its last big bet — cancelled before a single one shipped
Teased at CES 2021 as the finale of a 23-quarter losing streak, the Rollable was scrapped with the whole mobile division — ₩5 trillion of losses and a 2% share.
Read the caseInditex pulled four brands out of China — and is still closing Zara stores
Bershka, Pull&Bear, Stradivarius and Uterqüe all left China by 2022. Zara keeps closing stores too — 59 left, and counting, while the group bets on flagships.
Read the caseFour solar sellers bought 'No.1 satisfaction' badges — Japan charged them ¥44.83M
'No.1 satisfaction' claims rested on surveys that never asked if respondents used the service. Japan ordered ¥44.83M in surcharges from four solar sellers.
Read the caseKorea's first luxury platform hit full capital erosion and was sold to an investor
Founded in 2009, Rebonz pioneered luxury rental in Korea; by end-2024 its equity was gone. Yooil Technology Investment took over in December 2025.
Read the caseLord & Taylor dressed 50 influencers in one dress — and never said it was an ad
March 2015: 50 paid influencers wore the same Lord & Taylor dress in one weekend, undisclosed. A year later the FTC charged deception; the store settled.
Read the caseForever 21 sold a girls' shirt reading 'Allergic to Algebra' — and pulled it in days
September 2011: Forever 21's 'Allergic to Algebra' tee drew accusations of sexism from parents and teachers. The chain apologized and pulled it.
Read the casePull Charm sold a 'Nobel-class' hair tonic with fake before-and-afters — Tokyo banned it
Fake before-and-after photos, fake SNS reviews, fake scarcity and a Nobel Prize claim: Tokyo found seven violations in one hair tonic campaign.
Read the caseBAIC Off-Road dressed the BJ40 as a Qing prince at the Forbidden City. It backfired.
December 15, 2025: a model in Qing court dress beside the BJ40 before the Forbidden City's red walls — 'Lord BJ4 arrives.' It was quietly deleted the next day.
Read the caseAnne Fontaine got an eight-year court plan to pay back what its shirts couldn't
The Paris white-shirt house had already signed a court deal in 2016. In 2024 it asked for safeguard again — and its logistics arm followed it into receivership.
Read the caseMaiquer's best-selling 'pure milk' carried an illegal additive — a ¥73M fine
A provincial spot check found propylene glycol in two batches of the Xinjiang dairy's pure milk. Regulators fined it ¥73.15M and shut its core product line.
Read the caseJohn Lewis refused the ASA its sales data — two Black Friday saving ads got banned
John Lewis advertised a £150 MacBook saving and a £450 Zenbook saving; the laptop had been at full price one day. It refused to hand over sales data.
Read the caseInforma TechTarget shut Fashion Dive and folded fashion into its bigger Dives
The fashion-industry news site stopped publishing on Aug 30, 2025; its reporter moved to Food Dive, readers to the wider Dive network.
Read the caseDyson spent six years on air-purifying headphones and sold thousands. Then it stopped.
The Zone paired headphones with a wearable air purifier at about $950; two years on, Dyson halted production after selling only in the thousands.
Read the caseDebenhams sold fake Black Friday discounts — and told the ASA its sellers were to blame
A bed at £349 since April was sold as -44% off £619. Debenhams said its marketplace sellers set prices; the ASA held the platform for the ads anyway.
Read the caseMENARD rode 'Made in Japan' beauty in China for 60 years, then pulled every counter
A 60-year-old Japanese cosmetics brand that rode the 'Made in Japan' beauty wave in China pulled all counters as the Japan mystique evaporated
Read the caseLi Ziqi went silent for 500+ days while her studio's ownership battle froze her own brand
China's most-watched food vlogger stopped posting from July 2021 to December 2022 while her shareholder fight with Wei Nian went through court
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