JCC Misadventures in advertising

Domino's says that was unauthorized, but nonetheless that's quite disturbing, though given Domino's reputation over the years, it can be seen as slightly accurate.






How is that not annoying?

 

Anyone remember this?:



(Advertising people: before you use slang terms the young people are using nowadays in your ads, find out what that slang term means)

 

Or don't and get publicity all through the Internet for the price of one banner in one website!

 

Some advertising agency hung up a camera in a garbage bag in a train station today:



Result:



Train station closed all morning.

 

How to kill a brand:

 

I wish I'd taken a picture of a hospital's maternity services poster ad that went up across from the high school in my town. It was a picture of a very young looking mother holding her newborn baby, with a slogan that read "You can do this!" I'll post it tonight if it's still there.

 

This was my favorite gaffe from last year:


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Kiki-Gon

 

That reminds me of the Aqua Teen Hunger Force debacle that took place in Boston several years ago. Someone was hanging these up over the city to promote that show. The bomb squads were called in, media went crazy, roads shut down, helicopters circling overhead, etc

 

Best Amazon reviews ever.

 

Did you get your membership to Boobie Bungalow Tunes?

 

I go there for the food.

 

Not going to post a pic for obvious reasons, but a classic when I was growing up was the Sears Catalog 'man on page 602' in 1975. Sears claimed it was a printing defect that led to an image of a man in boxer shorts appearing to show a bit more than was usual in those kind of ads. Google will get you plenty of images on this one. I had the actual page for a long time but I think it got lost in a move.

 

You might get sacked if you posted it.