[Living Document] Marketing errors.

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Re: [Living Document] Marketing errors.

by pinback » Fri Oct 14, 2022 7:44 am

There is an ad running four times an hour on Comedy Central for "LUME" with a line over the E, pronounced "Loo-mee", and within the first fifteen seconds, an unattractive woman with her face taking up the whole screen mentions "butt cheeks" and "crotch odor".

I'm out.

Re: [Living Document] Marketing errors.

by pinback » Sat Aug 27, 2022 5:05 am

These are arguably the most annoying TV ads ever created:

Re: [Living Document] Marketing errors.

by Jizaboz » Thu Aug 25, 2022 8:13 pm

AArdvark wrote: Thu Aug 25, 2022 2:16 pm Was that a condom ad?
No sir that would be "Nugenix TOTAL T", the leading testosterone booster!

* key Frank Thomas in a gym

A white yuppie couple walks in she points to him and asks her husband:

Wife: "Is that Frank Thomas?!"

Husband: "Yeah! The big hurt!"

Wife: "More like the big hunk!" (JEEZ! Go over there and blow him already, lady!)

Husband: :neutral:

Frank then proceeds to confirm that her husband is a weakling that can't get it up enough, and he needs that TOTAL T ASAP.

Re: [Living Document] Marketing errors.

by AArdvark » Thu Aug 25, 2022 2:16 pm

Was that a condom ad?

Re: [Living Document] Marketing errors.

by pinback » Thu Aug 25, 2022 10:15 am

"Oh... and she'll like it too!"

Just die already.

Re: [Living Document] Marketing errors.

by AArdvark » Mon Jul 25, 2022 9:38 am

I agree. It was always used like that on the preparation instructions on the boxes oatmeal when I was a kid and I thought it stupid

Re: [Living Document] Marketing errors.

by Flack » Mon Jul 25, 2022 8:10 am

pinback wrote: Sun Jul 24, 2022 4:58 am FUCK BABY.
Don't Google this.

Re: [Living Document] Marketing errors.

by pinback » Mon Jul 25, 2022 4:55 am

Right. The only time it's proper to say BABY is when that they're name. So unless every single infant in all of these commercials is named BABY, then my complaint stands.

Re: [Living Document] Marketing errors.

by Tdarcos » Mon Jul 25, 2022 1:18 am

pinback wrote: Sun Jul 24, 2022 4:58 am "Baby" instead of "YOUR baby" or even "A baby". God DAMMIT is that annoying. "Get the best nutrition for BABY." "Make BABY comfortable." FUCK BABY.
"No one puts Baby in a corner."
- Johnny Castle, Dirty Dancing

Re: [Living Document] Marketing errors.

by pinback » Sun Jul 24, 2022 4:58 am

"Baby" instead of "YOUR baby" or even "A baby". God DAMMIT is that annoying. "Get the best nutrition for BABY." "Make BABY comfortable." FUCK BABY.

Re: [Living Document] Marketing errors.

by Ice Cream Jonsey » Sat Jul 09, 2022 10:19 am

Excellent work, that post hits different.

Ad guys and gals should be forced to speak to one another.

Re: [Living Document] Marketing errors.

by Tdarcos » Sat Jul 02, 2022 5:06 am

Jizaboz wrote: Mon May 09, 2022 9:43 pm Coke Meta lolololol

.. and with Zero Sugar? Chemical (digital?) sweetness instead? Fuck that!
There is stevia, a zero-calorie sweetener that comes from the veponymous plant, that has been used in other countries for hundreds of years.

"What hind of plant is the eponymous?" Why you ignrant, uneducated fool! It means "of the same name" like when a group mreleases a record with the band's name.

Re: [Living Document] Marketing errors.

by pinback » Fri Jul 01, 2022 7:16 pm

"When the kids these days like something, they say it 'hits different'. Let's say EVERYTHING 'hits different'!"

Re: [Living Document] Marketing errors.

by Jizaboz » Mon May 09, 2022 9:43 pm

Coke Meta lolololol

.. and with Zero Sugar? Chemical (digital?) sweetness instead? Fuck that!

Re: [Living Document] Marketing errors.

by pinback » Mon May 09, 2022 4:40 am

Coca-Cola describes [the new Coke flavor, "Byte"] as the first "flavor born in the metaverse," and says it "celebrates the everyday magic of pixels coming together to facilitate digital connection."
Somebody wrote this with a straight face.

(And got paid for it.)

(And still has a job.)

(And is a human being on this planet.)

Re: [Living Document] Marketing errors.

by pinback » Thu May 05, 2022 6:49 am

They're PANTS, not "a pant". God I hate that. "Try our awesome new PANT."

That sure is a nice PANT you're wearing there, Jim.

Christ.

Re: [Living Document] Marketing errors.

by Tdarcos » Wed Apr 13, 2022 7:26 am

AArdvark wrote: Wed Apr 13, 2022 2:56 am Take on life.....in style.

Because living is such adversity. How do zombies feel about that?
What do vegetarian zombies cry out cravings for?
"Grains! ...Grains.!"

One of the weirdest marketing campaigns I heard of is when an advertiser uses CGI to have a dead celebrity come back to life and shill for their product. Sometimes the image crosses into "uncanny valley" territory, and is very creepy.

Re: [Living Document] Marketing errors.

by AArdvark » Wed Apr 13, 2022 2:56 am

Take on life.....in style.

Because living is such adversity. How do zombies feel about that?

Re: [Living Document] Marketing errors.

by pinback » Tue Apr 12, 2022 6:04 pm

What does the announcer in this commercial say you should do with your new Infiniti?

https://pinback.net/images/infiniti.mov

Re: [Living Document] Marketing errors.

by pinback » Wed Nov 24, 2021 1:05 pm

Now they've added an Xfinity ad where everyone is crying the whole time because of how wonderful and heartwarming and giving and caring Xfinity is(*).

(*) Xfinity is the worst thing to ever be a thing and the crying should have been done by customers actually trying and failing to receive a service for the money they paid, which is all of them.

Wait, while I was typing this, there was a "Boll & Branch" ad for beds or some shit and everyone was smiling and crying.

We're (literally) not buying it, marketing retards.

There's a thread on Caltrops that promotes the idea that Bill Hicks isn't funny. I'll allow that he may not be laugh-out-loud funny, but someone had to say this:


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