I don’t mean like scams or anything like that. I mean what’s the ad that has done the worst job as an advertisement? Instead of making you want to buy the product you wanted to avoid it.
Political campaign ads. Not a product so it might be different. I remember watching one that took advantage of homeless people and it made my stomach hurt.
All the anti-smoking ads. I don’t support smoking, but the anti-smoking ads are so dramatic I’m surprised they’re allowed by the Geneva Convention on psychological warfare.
Now Im reminded of he Thai Insurance ad
And the real world affect of those ads were they just reminded smokers they hadn’t had a smoke in a while and they’d go light up.
I think any ad that has the disclaimer guy say about 300 words within 3 minutes at the end has a place in my worst ad bucket. These are mostly drugs. and I don’t remember a single specific so it’s a sure sign.
also those smiling people eating their salad.
and that one ad with iPhone that people are jumping about with colors splashing and so little detail on the actual product.
The law on drug ads is that if they tell you what the drug does, they also have to tell you all the side effects.
But if they don’t tell you what the drug does, they aren’t required to say the side effects.
So they used to make two versions of the ad. One that was all about making people feel good about a drug by showing smiling happy people living a good life with lots of wholesome moments then “ask your doctor if zexophlam is right for you.” Then they’d have another ad that tells you what zexophlam does and send a few minutes listing the side effects. But lately I haven’t seen the second type that lists the side effects. It;s just the first type that doesn’t tell you what the drug does.
Last one I saw kind of made a joke about it where someone is about to tell you what the drug is and they keep getting interrupted. Haha, how clever you are in avoiding telling me that a pill can give people diarrhea or whatever.
I feel like any ad you remember isn’t the worst.
The point of ads is to entice you to buy sonething. Theres a higher chance of me buying something I dont remember the ad for than one that I make a point to avoid because of how terrible the ad for it was.
You got it! Aside from anything seriously offensive, these are ALL better ads than the ones we’ve completely forgotten about.
There was an ad recently on UK TV for some shitty food delivery company,and had a constant loud doorbell sound.
I emailed the TV channel and said myself and everyone I know have stopped watching their channel because the advert was so obnoxiously irritating.
They emailed back a month later and said they’d asked the advertiser to redo the advert due to multiple complaints
We can make a difference if we make an effort!
Idk where to start.
I’ll start. Ahem. What is she leaning on? What cables are they talking about? Why are they expensive? Is it good that they’re expensive?
I’ll stop there, and see myself out
White font on white shirt?
The confusing messaging certainly takes second place behind that bad typography.
This ad is not for consumers. The line “征求经销商” means “looking for retailers”
Weirdly, I’m now drawn into seeing how expensive they actually are.
Maybe it’s actually marketing genius. 🤔
Crazy frog. Advertising what, a ringtone? I stopped watching television and never really started again.
Every grammarly as that has the English mistake in it.
So, all of them.
Any ad that runs on youtube. Literally. All of them. You have paid for the privilege of ruining my enjoyment of whatever I was trying to see. Eff you and the product you rode in on.
