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Elfface posted:Oh, here's a fun one! A Singapore anti-gambling poster during the World Cup. Reminds me of that "Your kid wants you to invest in Eastern Europe" or something like that. e: here it is 
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gnarlyhotep posted:Reminds me of that "Your kid wants you to invest in Eastern Europe" or something like that. To be fair that campaign really raised the profile of investment in Eastern Poland.
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Trying to find a picture of those lottery advertisements put up in poor neighborhoods that read "It could be your way out."
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Mr. Flunchy posted:To be fair that campaign really raised the profile of investment in Eastern Poland. That's cool, the ad just cracks me up with that "serious investment banker" face the kid has.
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gnarlyhotep posted:That's cool, the ad just cracks me up with that "serious investment banker" face the kid has. I also dig the followup: 
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Dec 8, 2014 22:27
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I know it's dumb but that's clearly two patties, not a single beef patty. You can see where one is sitting on the other in the middle of the drat sandwich! C'mon BK marketing team, how about having a little more integrity in your hamburger blowjob joke.
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Inspector Gesicht posted:Who is this Granny popular enough to merit six places on the Top 10? Yours! She's terrific. The White Dragon posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3CEa9fL9nS0 It's great for manly sports dad who's been trying to figure out what Christmas gift to get his gamer son that he otherwise can't relate to.
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The EV1’s marketing was so bad, possibly intentionally.  This television spot is exhibit A: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3g7cgUm7o9k It’s creepy as gently caress, from the music, to the narrator’s voice, but especially the shadows on the pavement. They are reminiscent of nothing so much as the permanent shadows left by victims of atomic bombings, an association enhanced by the tone of the piece. I’m also not convinced that “it’s a wonder this car moves at all!” was the right way to spin the technology, but compared to the imagery of the commercial that’s a minor issue.
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Platystemon posted:The EV1’s marketing was so bad, possibly intentionally. Yea that is the amazingly terrible.
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Pretty much any time a company starts answering questions on Twitter or other social media is going to fail. JP Morgan's is the most recent that I can think of, but there's some others. http://www.buzzfeed.com/matthewzeitlin/jpmorgan-shows-exactly-how-to-not-use-twitter Edit: Sorry for the buzzfeed link, but it's the one with the most examples. Edit: New York Police Department http://www.newstatesman.com/media/2014/04/not-what-they-had-mind-when-twitter-campaigns-backfire AFewBricksShy has a new favorite as of 23:53 on Dec 8, 2014 |
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AFewBricksShy posted:Pretty much any time a company starts answering questions on Twitter or other social media is going to fail. But think about all those SQRs they rank higher on now since Google indexed that much more traffic to their Twitter and JPM site?
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pcCu5-tIp1A Enjoy this masterpiece of awkward.
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Wilford Cutlery posted:Also, I can't stand those Lexus commercials around this time of year where a family gets a new SUV with a big bow on the roof in the driveway on Christmas morning. Lexus dealers actually have bows they'll give you if you want to do this. I'm not sure if that makes it better or worse.
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AKA Pseudonym posted:Lexus dealers actually have bows they'll give you if you want to do this. I'm not sure if that makes it better or worse. When you say give, you mean sell for $200 right? I mean it doesn't really matter if you're also buying a Lexus, but I feel like a car dealer would get mad at a butcher for wasting the squeal.
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AKA Pseudonym posted:Lexus dealers actually have bows they'll give you if you want to do this. I'm not sure if that makes it better or worse. Worse. (and I drive one)
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Herv posted:Worse. (and I drive one) http://youtu.be/sczUPdPo70g?t=14s
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Das Boo posted:I really want to believe at least one parent has had it inching closer and closer to their kid's bed. On Christmas the kid wakes up and it's on the bedside table, staring him in the face. The book was published in 2004, right? We've had an almost identical elf for almost forty years. It was "Santa's elf," it has its own blanket and pillow that hang on the tree. Mostly its job is to fill the elf baskets, little knit baskets that hang on the tree, with a piece of candy, like a couple of Hershey's Kisses or something like that. In the morning, the kids come down and get their candy, and the elf is under the tree, napping. They put it back on the mantle or shelves or wherever they want to put it, and it goes back to delivering candy the next night. We had a candy elf, not a stalker elf. My parents told us that it was a trainee elf learning how to deliver presents so it can help Santa.
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Christoff posted:I don't think I saw Qualcoms Born Mobile keynote in here yet. It's always worth a repost. its been posted on these forums a lot. I still don't know what they're advertising but it's an interesting and hilarious sequence of events. I forgot about this. I watched this live. Lol at Steve Balmer's entrance. Reminded me of his cocaine fulled entrance to a Microsoft share holders meeting. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wvsboPUjrGc
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Here's a dumb move that never happend, but still ended up being awful. In 2010 Cult Energy decided that they needed a new angle to sell their decade old mediocre swill. I was told that it was because the legalization of Red Bull in 2009 ate a big part of their market, but that's another story. Cult wanted to get the younger audience, so they made a 30 second commercial for TV. It was a remake of The Prodigy's classic "Smack My Bitch Up" music video, but instead of the normal twist, it would show a 12 year old boy with a bottle of Cult in the mirror. It was banned before it could air on television.  Instead they made these two posters  and put them up on every single bus shed in Denmark.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-XzQcpcgCKY C'mon, try and bust Balzac.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F38WmjxnvMk Give it a whack.
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Quad posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-XzQcpcgCKY The second one is quite possibly the most "early '90s" commercial ever.
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Spergminer posted:
Why does every country except England get boobs and studly dudes on its posters.
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poptart_fairy posted:Why does every country except England get boobs and studly dudes on its posters. The US is by far worse than all other countries that I know of when it comes to being colossal prudes.
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Spergminer posted:Here's a dumb move that never happend, but still ended up being awful. loving everyone drank that poo poo, even though it had weird aftertaste of vomit, until Somersby and Mokai became the new thing. Hulebr00670065006e has a new favorite as of 08:59 on Dec 9, 2014 |
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An advert for Fanta that has happy, cartoony people bouncing along the road and drinking Fanta, to the weirdest choice of music. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eKPBiplRYkg It even has one of the saddest verses in the whole song: "Unemployment at a record high People coming, people going, people born to die Don't ask me because I don't know why But it's like that and that's the way it is"
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Quad posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-XzQcpcgCKY The weirdest part of this is that there's a small town just outside of my city actually called Balzac. We do call it Ballsac, Alberta, to be honest.
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Starbucks had a Christmas ad campaign a couple of years ago where they had a big screen in the Natural History Museum in London, and Twitter users were invited to tweet Christmassy messages to #spreadthecheer to appear on the screen. Unfortunately for them their filter didn't work, and this happened: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/twitter/9750215/Starbucks-Twitter-campaign-hijacked-by-tax-protests.html
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Status Quo were a little hard up for cash recently I guess, so they re-purposed something from the back catalogue for a supermarket chain https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GdV4pr4frd4 This ended up being played on radio stations. Regardless of whether or not it was dumb, it is incredibly miserable.
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gnarlyhotep posted:The US is by far worse than all other countries that I know of when it comes to being colossal prudes Saudi Arabia? Iran?
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ninjahedgehog posted:Saudi Arabia? Iran? Well yeah, aside from the extremists.
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gnarlyhotep posted:Well yeah, aside from the extremists. And almost every country not located in Western Europe.
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IiAFewBricksShy posted:Pretty much any time a company starts answering questions on Twitter or other social media is going to fail. Phone posting, so I can't pull examples, but that reminds me of Total Nonstop Action's president Dixie Carter doing a twitter campaign to have people #askdixie. It did not go well, especially since she'd recently fired a guy who broke his neck on live tv, once the statute of limitations ran out. Strangely that was one of the less popular topics.
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AFewBricksShy posted:JP Morgan's is the most recent that I can think of, but there's some others. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=svDyMEqkAJk Celebrating this great country we destroyed the economy of. Happy Thanksgiving everybody!
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Spergminer posted:Here's a dumb move that never happend, but still ended up being awful. Wait isn't that the exact premise of a Justice music video?
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Spergminer posted:the legalization of Red Bull in 2009
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First thing I thought of when I read this thread was the anti marijuana ad that aired during the Super Bowl shortly after 9/11 that implied that if you smoke pot you somehow support terrorists, but drat if I can find that fucker. I remember watching it, and was probably high at the time or maybe about to get high at halftime or even get high when I got home, and realizing for the first time that the fall of the twin towers was about to be exploited for right wing purposes. It was the most stupid god damned thing I'd ever watched and I recall being personally insulted by it. It was the first time I went "Uh oh. So much for unity". I think it aired the same year that U2 did their awesome halftime show too, which somehow made it even worse.
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slinkimalinki posted:What. Red Bull has had some problems with approval for sale because of the taurine in it and the occasional heart attack.
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BiggerBoat posted:First thing I thought of when I read this thread was the anti marijuana ad that aired during the Super Bowl shortly after 9/11 that implied that if you smoke pot you somehow support terrorists, but drat if I can find that fucker. I remember watching it, and was probably high at the time or maybe about to get high at halftime or even get high when I got home, and realizing for the first time that the fall of the twin towers was about to be exploited for right wing purposes. It was the most stupid god damned thing I'd ever watched and I recall being personally insulted by it. It was real, I remember it too. Had a girl with some pot and showed a bunch of pictures as it went something like: "This is the weed I bought from the dealer, this is the cartel the dealer got it from, these are the terrorists that grew the weed for the cartel... and this is an innocent family those terrorists murdered just so you could have that weed." Cut back to the weed girl horrified because she realized she murdered a young family. Maybe it's the same one? I remember also thinking it was dumb because it showed a cartel as just being one dude.
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That Robox posted:It was real, I remember it too. Had a girl with some pot and showed a bunch of pictures as it went something like: Yeah the commercial said that drugs fund terrorism, actually saying that weed caused 9/11 was a gag on South Park.
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