Dumb Marketing Moves: Tell me about Zoos

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Powerful Two-Hander: Mar 10, 2004; Mods please change my name to "Tooter Skeleton" TIA.

Spergminer posted:

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.

Wait isn't that the exact premise of a Justice music video?

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Powerful Two-Hander: Mar 10, 2004; Mods please change my name to "Tooter Skeleton" TIA.

insufficient guns posted:

Why do those two have to shill for basically everything? It makes me sad. Are times really that tough? Yesterday I saw Webb on a poster at the Post Office. I think he was dressed as an elf or something.

Didn't he basically tell people who said this to get hosed because how did they think he was actually going to earn money?

# ¿ Dec 14, 2014 17:55

Powerful Two-Hander: Mar 10, 2004; Mods please change my name to "Tooter Skeleton" TIA.

Mr. Flunchy posted:

Even when they did how footage they often hosed it up.

edit.. ahh the weirdly softporn mid-90s...

How could you miss Derek Smart's Battlecruiser 300AD ad? This allegedlygot banned in the UK and later versions were "censored".

Original:

"censored" version:

Of course, for all I know this was manufactured controversy but in any case the game was poo poo so it didn't make much difference.

# ¿ Jan 2, 2015 14:25

Powerful Two-Hander: Mar 10, 2004; Mods please change my name to "Tooter Skeleton" TIA.

GOTTA STAY FAI posted:

Missed a golden opportunity by passing up Floaty McShipfaced IMHO

Or Mr Boatjangles.

# ¿ Apr 22, 2016 18:54

Powerful Two-Hander: Mar 10, 2004; Mods please change my name to "Tooter Skeleton" TIA.

In the village I used to live in years ago there was a "Chinese gift shop" that just had two waving cats and some random crap in the window which we all assumed was a front for something.

A brothel, as it turned out.

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