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PYF idiotic marketing campaigns: To get started. Dasani Water in the UK:  This was their first slogan. They followed it up with "Bottled Spunk". They were apparently unaware of what spunk means in the UK. The brand quickly tanked after a) it was revealed Coca Cola were just bottling tap water and b) they were inadvertently adding carcinogens to the tap water. They soon removed Dasani from the market. Greatest hits:   
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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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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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RC and Moon Pie posted:My neck of the woods aired this. This is not a man it looks like a good idea to be financially linked to. Necrothatcher has a new favorite as of 11:06 on Dec 11, 2014 |
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Bertrand Hustle posted:I heard somewhere that this actually led to an increase in girls and women buying Yorkie bars. Probably what they intended all along with that. An "oh yeah? We'll see about that." kind of reaction. Here is an exhaustive run-down of that campaign: http://veethemonsoon.wordpress.com/2004/07/02/nestle-uks-yorkie-is-not-for-girls/ quote:“1. Society is moving towards ‘re-genderization’. Beyond feminism and beyond androgyny, people are examining the different values men and women can bring to a society: ‘Vive la différence’. Men love being men – and women appreciate and/or are amused by the differences. Coupled with this is increasing gender equality. PC boundaries have therefore changed and humour is once again exploring ‘men being men’ hmmmmmm
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Dec 15, 2014 13:41
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Barudak posted:So here is my favorite fuckup of advertising this year and boy is it a doozy. Oglivy India ran a campaign for Kurl On mattresses and I guess the wanted to show how rejuvenating and bouncy the product was. So what better to depict than a cartoon Malala Yousafzai getting shot in the face (with blood) fall on the mattress then bounce back up ready to work? Nothing says "buy a mattress" like a 14 year old being shot in the face. 
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Dec 17, 2014 13:54
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I'd love to see the first marketing guy who had the Eureka realisation that if all publicity is good publicity, then the more people we horrify the better!
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ozza posted:Some Gameboy ads from the 90s. I remember seeing them in magazines and on TV, and even as an idiot child I knew that something was amiss. From this thread, it seems like it took a long time before ad agencies knew how to market videogames and consoles. Showing footage of the games themselves usually doesn't hurt, for a start. Even when they did how footage they often hosed it up. This Zelda ad caused a minor controversy back in the day for sexism. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=evI5pF5h8Ck edit.. ahh the weirdly softporn mid-90s...      edit edit: What the gently caress:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j0BDwzN4viw
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Spergminer posted:Electronic Arts partnered with GameStop for a one-day promotion of Dante's Inferno on September 9, 2009 (9/9/9). Those that pre-ordered the game were offered a $6.66 discount, the Number of the Beast.[16] In addition, EA conducted an unsolicited mailing in which checks for $200 were sent to selected video game critics, with the following note: I think that's pretty cool to be honest.
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Dec 20, 2014 00:29
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WebDog posted:Oh the N-Gage had far far more disturbing ads. Holy poo poo  here's the TV ads (which were apparently banned) http://adland.tv/commercials/nokia-n-gage-where-1-2003-030-usa http://adland.tv/commercials/nokia-n-gage-where-2-2003-030-usa http://adland.tv/commercials/nokia-n-gage-where-rebecca-2003-015-usa http://adland.tv/commercials/nokia-n-gage-where-lara-2003-015-usa Necrothatcher has a new favorite as of 14:58 on Jan 2, 2015 |
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Dropbear posted:What is really loving hilarious to me is how bad YouTube advertisements are, at least here in Finland. Even if you don't use adblock you can usually skip the ad after 5 seconds, which is what most people do. So, logically, you should try to ram the important bits (your product / company name at the very least) into those first five seconds, right? Nope! Everyone puts the weirdest poo poo that has nothing to do with the advertised thing at the start! I quite like how this played with that: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2gMjJNGg9Z8
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Jan 5, 2015 18:01
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The North Tower posted:Tell me why Boeing spends money on ads! There has to be a reason! The marketing team has an advertising budget and if they don't spend it all they won't get the same next year?
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Jan 8, 2015 13:01
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Len posted:Hey man. They've been waiting 10 minutes for their food and that's unacceptable. Sounds like it'd gently caress up the customer throughput of a McDonalds if you get a bunch of people sitting around waiting for pizza all day at the counter. If 10 people order pizza at once they could be hanging around for ages.
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Jan 12, 2015 12:57
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Flaskraven posted:Have you guys been to Denny's tumblr yet? It's the weirdest thing. Here's some examples I picked out:  
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Jan 22, 2015 10:56
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IndustrialApe posted:they keep so much listening data and yet they still promote music to me that isn't even in the realm of my tastes, that's gotta be a failure. I think they're probably more interested in selling that data to marketing teams, record companies etc than recommending you music.
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Feb 4, 2015 19:48
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dpbjinc posted:To be fair, the Wii was also the dumping ground for lovely bargain bin games, and I can't name a third-party title Resident Evil 4 Wii was ace.
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Feb 24, 2015 12:29
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Cowslips Warren posted:The sad part is, there is nothing that can be done to save the orcas other than, what, direct death? Some people advocate returning them to the wild (and that worked so well for Keiko) or putting them somewhere where they still get vet care but no shows. But SeaWorld is a business. I don't think they're a non-profit either. I don't think they can put the orcas "somewhere" and keep them alive for the rest of their lives. Maybe they can, maybe there's some safe harbor the whales can go in and be fed and cared for, but I doubt it. This is such a bullshit way of thinking. There are obviously other options besides keeping them as caged performing animals or bunging them back in the sea and hoping for the best.
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Mar 29, 2015 23:09
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Mustached5thGrader posted:I'm not sure how, but I often get poo poo all the up my lower back. A bidet would be nice. you should probably get out of bed first
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Mr. 47 posted:Why do teachers and school admins never seem to figure out that banning a thing makes it that much more desirable? These people were kids once. They were there. Would this kind of thing really be as popular if they didn't fight it so hard? They don't give a poo poo, but they need to be seen to be doing something so parents don't complain.
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May 2, 2015 18:47
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Ryoshi posted:I can't even imagine what emotes would make me throw money at the screen - we already have sitting, waving, pointing and dancing, and there's not a who lot of situations where flipping the bird would work in game. I think I'm set. Someone, break this down for me. So Destiny fans are mad that Bungie are bringing out a collector's edition containing three new emotes (which I assume are canned animations of a few seconds each), and they're upset that to get them they'd have to pay $80. They see it as a rip-off because they've already bought the game & dlc and don't want to rebuy content they own. Perhaps I'm missing something enormous here, but why don't they just not buy it if they don't think it's worth the money? They're just silly animations right?
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Jun 24, 2015 18:33
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Zaphod42 posted:Its forcing people to buy something you already sold them to get something else which is really loving frustrating. And again, their response was "well it already sold out so gently caress you, we're getting paid." How are they forcing people to do anything?! I feel old.
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Jun 24, 2015 18:37
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Zaphod42 posted:Sorry I used the wrong language but you could really guess what I mean. We're talking about three canned animations like this right?  I mean... is this really worth getting upset about?
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Jun 24, 2015 18:41
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Delivery McGee posted:Yeah, that. Also Shakespeare was pretty much the Seth MacFarlane of his day -- writing lovely plays for trash people. Just because the people talk what we moderns consider fancy doesn't mean Shakespeare was fancy -- his theatre was in the bad part of town and tickets were cheap. C'mon, the dude was performing in person for the Queen and premièring plays at the Inns of Court. And Southwark is hardly a complete shithole as far as Elizabethan London goes.
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thewireguy posted:I had a bump out of one of those from a strippers cleavage. She hit it from the cameras in the champagne room. Cool story.
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ElwoodCuse posted:There's nothing like seeing people on the street wearing Beats with the wire not even plugged in Ever consider that they might be wireless headphones?
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Irisi posted:That's so weird, here in the UK it's called TK Maxx. Why on earth would they change only one letter of the name? There was another clothing chain called TJ Hughes and they didn't want people to get confused between the two.
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Krispy Kareem posted:Is this some kind of subliminal messaging from corporate America that leaving work at 6pm is normal? It's obviously this. You nailed it.
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I am not sure this English chicken farm has the best name: http://diaperpoultry.co.uk/
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Oct 15, 2015 00:50
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Finally an industrial chemical company with hip retro stylings. brb placing an order for 120 tonnes of Benzene.
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The pepsi universe theorem reads like it was written by Ray Smuckles.
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Oct 15, 2015 23:44
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Zaphod42 posted:I've always thought a genius business venture would be to buy up cheap four-banger Honda engines and put them into Stingray or Ferrari bodies. (or produce a like sports car style) Vroooooom 
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Oct 28, 2015 16:35
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Lazlo Nibble posted:Ads on public transit often occupy that weird spot on the Venn diagram where "big enough buy to be seen by lots of people" and "small enough buy that nobody in the production chain realizes it's completely incomprehensible" overlap. Umbrella's corporate rebranding going well.
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Dec 23, 2015 17:32
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Mu Zeta posted:They still add beef flavoring to the oil when they cook the fries. The fries are vegetarian only in India. They're also vegetarian in the UK, at least. quote:The Fries we serve on our UK menu are suitable for vegetarians. The ingredient declaration for our UK Fries is: Potatoes, Vegetable Oil (Sunflower, Rapeseed), Dextrose.
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I know its a bit classically cynical, but you might think AMC knew everyone would hate this texting in cinemas idea and had plans to immediately walk it back all along...
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I still don't quite understand how this thread evolved from making fun of bad marketing to suckers paying for badly printed jpegs of trains.
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DudeGoofyGuy posted:The weird thing about Bobcat is, as far as I can tell, the creators only keep the extremely negligible change left over from if a person stops receiving Bobcat things and has a few cents that didn't roll over or something. The money you've put into Bobcat isn't profit for anyone except for whoever listed train diagrams on eBay in the first place. This, of course, means putting crap up on eBay knowing that an innocent-minded robot susceptible to rudimentary SEO will spend cash on it is a brilliant move in marketing. Is there a way for you to look up exactly how much the bot spent on what you received? From the discussions in the thread I am betting they could have easily charged $5 for that printout, including shipping. I wonder who this mysterious whoever could be.... I suppose we will never know.
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DudeGoofyGuy posted:Bobcat creator SEO scamming his own service would be such a needlessly complicated and therefore brilliantly scandalous scheme, I don't know whether to love the idea or pity it. How do you even know these train pics are coming from eBay? I had a cursory look and couldn't see anyone selling them.
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thecluckmeme posted:awful.app has a keyboard you can choose to put onto your phone through its keyboard settings that is just an extra emoji keyboard with all the smilies you have access to in awful.app How do you do this? Can't find keyboard settings anywhere?
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Aug 22, 2016 13:18
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Werong Bustope posted:Oh I know, I actually really like Jason Statham. It's great that he's managed to make a career out of being a totally average English guy who punches stuff. Just unexpected. He was also an internationally competing diver: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vWrINMm1aCI
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Hi Japan: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xb8VgJjNSW8
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