Posted by Chris Spags under Advertising, Apple Lemmings commercial, Arbitrary Rankings, bad Super Bowl commercials, Bad Super Bowl commericals, Bad TV commericals, Business, Christopher Reeve walking ad, featured, Fred Astaire dances with vacuums, Holiday Inn transsexual, Lists, NFL, PETA, Racism, racist panda bears, Salesgenie.com, Sports, Super Bowl, Superman, Video, Worst Super Bowl ads
Making a good Super Bowl commercial is hard. It takes months, if not years, of planning and research to make people remember your company’s ad. Conversely, 30 seconds of awfulness can make people remember you too, but for all the wrong reasons. Here are seven ads which definitely fall into the latter category.
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Posted by Chris Spags under Advertising, Jack in the Box, Super Bowl, Video, WTF
The hot new thing this year for companies is to show their Super Bowl commercial the week before the Super Bowl. Because, you know, nothing captivates an audience of tens of millions better than a commercial they saw embedded twenty times the previous week. This Jack in the Box commercial is the first one I feel like you actually need to see.
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Posted by Colin Joliat under Advertising, Beer, beer ads, beer advertising, Best beer ads, Craft Beer, Redhook beer, Redhook Brewery, Super Bowl
I’ve made no secret about the fact that I’m a sucker for good advertising. The only problem for most companies is that we don’t see eye to logo on what makes an ad successful. For me, it’s all about entertainment value. I don’t need your commercial to tell me everything I need to know about the product, just make me interested.
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Posted by Matt Hawkins under Advertising, fighting game, Gaming, Namco, soulcalibur, Video games
For those who love cleavage and swords, you may want to swing by the local game shop after work.
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Posted by Chris Spags under Advertising, Carnival cruise ships, Great ideas
Carnival is the parent company of the cruise ship that capsized on the shores of Italy earlier this month. Given that disaster, they may want to rethink these ads currently running all over NYC.
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Posted by Chris Spags under Advertising, Blow by Ty Barnes, The Simpsons, Video, Weird local commercials, WTF
What do you think of when you imagine Springfield, Missouri? If you’re like me, you think pure sexual energy. And that’s what leaps off the screen in this bizarre ad for Blow, a salon in the city from Ty Barnes.
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Posted by Matt Hawkins under Advertising, Gamestop, Gaming, glyde, Video games
I’ve made my disdain for America’s largest retail outlet for games pretty crystal clear, and therefor support any attempt to take them on, headfirst. But an ad that’s just some dude getting kicked in the nuts repeatedly would not be my first choice.
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Posted by Matt Hawkins under Advertising, Army, Call of Duty, D.B. Grady, Gaming, Modern Warfare 3, Modern Warfare 3 advertising, Modern Warfare 3 marketing, Modern Warfare 3 trivializes war, MW3, MW3 news, Video games
“The game’s commercial trivializes and sanitizes war to an extreme, setting a new low,” says an Army Special Operations Command vet.
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Posted by Matt Hawkins under 8bit, Advertising, Android, Battletoads, Gaming, Google, HTC, New Android phones, Nexus One phone, Nexus S phone, Ninjas, Video games
But this time, they’re going the 8bit route. Not sure if everyone has been keeping track, but every new flagship Android device that Google releases has been accompanied by YouTube shenanigans featuring ninjas.
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Posted by Chris Spags under Advertising, Andrej Pejic, lingerie, News, WTF
Dutch department store HEMA hired Andrej Pejic to model its new line of push-up bras. But before you start a pants-free Googlefest of “Andrej Pejic nude,” you should probably be aware of the fact that Andrej is, yes, a dude.
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Posted by Dan Seitz under Advertising, annoyances, cellphones, Densebrain, Gadgets, Gadgets for men, Invasive smartphone advertising, Sound triggered smartphone ads
It’s a key axiom of technology: there is no device so noble, so pure of heart, so refined, that marketing departments across the world won’t be able to take it and turn it into something horrible. From this noble goal, advertisers have come up with something pretty vile, actually.
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