MovieTickets.com Pledges to Leave Chimpanzees Out of Ads

April 2008

After receiving complaints about a MovieTickets.com commercial featuring a young chimpanzee named Jake, PETA wrote to the company and urged it to discontinue the ad and refrain from using great apes in future advertising efforts. MovieTickets.com quickly responded and promised not to produce any ads with Jake or other chimpanzees in the future.

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 Ingrid E. Newkirk

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