I have to say, those super annoying Target Black Friday commercials with the crazy lady who epitomizes everything that is wrong with American capitalism.
Truly Failed Advertising
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What's wrong with that one?DeadPlatypus said:
I see no issue, except for the implication that women are incapable of driving.
I can think of one;
1)I was on a website a couple minutes ago and saw an Ad. Normally, if it's an ad that makes noise, I just mute it and move on. But there was no way to mute this ad. So I figured I'd just wait it out. But every 30 seconds, it played a video for 45 seconds with the most annoying sounds. Heavy.com or something like that...it was some dumb dating site or something.
1)I was on a website a couple minutes ago and saw an Ad. Normally, if it's an ad that makes noise, I just mute it and move on. But there was no way to mute this ad. So I figured I'd just wait it out. But every 30 seconds, it played a video for 45 seconds with the most annoying sounds. Heavy.com or something like that...it was some dumb dating site or something.
I never knew that was real. Saw it on South Park but thought...oh God...Lukeman1884 said:
You poor, poor soul.JourneyThroughHell said:
Actually, few TV ads do anything for me. That is, ads for television shows. There are shows I actually like where I watch the ads and go "Why am I watching this?"
The Obama inaugural coin commercial...especially when it takes up every ad spot...4 minutes of the same thing...over and over...every commercial break.
There will be retribution for reminding me about those commercials. >.< I have never had Quizno's because of them.Atmos Duality said:
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I do not watch a lot of shows on TV at this point so I am spared from a lot of recent ones. I am also very good at ignoring them. I hate Flo from Progressive, I would really like to smack her and all of the male enhancement commercials are creepy. A while back, Kleenex put out one for Cottonelle TP (I think) that just used shots of people's rear ends in it. I have not purchased a Kleenex product since. I was so fed up with seeing rear end shots on the TV all the time.
And you know what? They didn't even mention it was Glee, so I had no idea what I was even watching.JourneyThroughHell said:
The most annoying Blip ad must have been one with a horrible musical thing where they were singing about the printer being out of ink or whatever. It was so annoying I just learned to mute the computer when starting a video.
I think that's a good example of an advertisement where they try to make the audience go "WTF could they be advertising with this?" and watch it to the end out of curiosity, and even if they go "That? What does that has to do with this?" they at least remember it.Geekosaurus said:
Also, as far as multi-cultural advertisement fail goes, right and left can take on different connotations depending on the culture, as some languages are read from right to left and some left to right instead. A three-panel advertisement for a laundry detergent showed dirty clothes on the left, the laundry detergent being used in the middle, and clean clothes in the right. This add was used unchanged in Arabic countries, where people read it from right to left, and it looked like the product made the clothes dirty.
This is a story which appears in every cross-cultural marketing guide-book, but I haven't found the original story anywhere.