The Worst Marketing Ideas

[JimBeam]

We have a thread for most obnoxious commercials but for this thread I mean not just a commercial itseld but an entire ad campaign.

What made me think of it was the stupid Coors Light commercials with the bars that tell you if the beer is cold.

It was a retarded idea when it was just the mountains changing colors or with one bar but to now add a second bar for really really cold is just plain idiotic.

So the commercial is only dwarfed in it's ridiculousness by the entire premise.

[Judge Smails]

The "I will personally spit in every fiftieth burger" promotion.

[WRESTLINGFAN]

http://www.diamondcokecans.com/CocaColaCans/CocaCola(CanadaNewCoke).JPG

[furie]

The "I will personally spit in every fiftieth burger" promotion.

what's that from?

[Chigworthy]

The Marlboro Miles baby stroller.

[WRESTLINGFAN]

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[Gutter]

Thomas Edison executing animals of various sizes, in a very public forum in order to convince ppl of the dangers of Tesla's AC method as opposed to Edison's Direct Current method. The most disturbing and infamous of these executions was Topsy the Elephant.

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[Furtherman]

Oh shit I heard about that but never knew there was footage.


Edison was a bastard!

[Gutter]

Oh shit I heard about that but never knew there was footage.


Edison was a bastard!

heartless prick he was.

[Judge Smails]

The "I will personally spit in every fiftieth burger" promotion.

what's that from?

http://i.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/article/8/0/6/72806.jpg?v=1

It's from The Simpsons. Krusty Burger sponsors the 1984 Olympics and has a contest where you can win a burger if the US wins a medal in a specific sport on your gamepiece. Krusty has rigged it so all the events are in sports dominated by the Soviet Bloc countries. When they boycott, and the US dominates, Krusty threatens to spit in every fiftieth burger due to the losses he's suffering and Homer states that he "likes those odds".

Its a classic Simpsons episode and what most people don't realize is that its based on an actual marketing blunder by McDonalds and the 1984 Olympics:

http://www.cracked.com/article_19334_the-5-biggest-disasters-in-history-marketing-ideas.html


With the Eastern Bloc competition out of the way, the U.S. wound up winning significantly more medals as the last time around -- a mind-boggling 174 medals total (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1984_Summer_Olympics_medal_table). Instead of the 34 golds the U.S. won in 1976, the 1984 games saw the Americans bring home 83.

Which meant McDonald's had to give away much more food than they expected, including more than twice as many valuable Big Macs. There were rumors that locations were running out of Big Macs (http://www.nytimes.com/1984/08/10/business/advertising-big-mac-s-olympic-giveaway.html)... that the customers didn't pay a dime foor.


I thought about explaining the joke in my original post, but I didn't want Dude! to have a cow.

[Sinestro]

Oh shit I heard about that but never knew there was footage.


Edison was a bastard!

WTF??? Why is he not ostracized like Michael Vick? At least the dogs had a fighting chance. Where was PETA back then.



"Just say No" to drugs campaign in the 80's. like it really worked. We won the war on drugs right?

[Gutter]

WTF??? Why is he not ostracized like Michael Vick? At least the dogs had a fighting chance. Where was PETA back then.




things were more bully back then.

[Chigworthy]

AIDSBurger©

[Judge Smails]

AIDSBurger©


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[Jujubees2]

WTF??? Why is he not ostracized like Michael Vick? At least the dogs had a fighting chance. Where was PETA back then.



"Just say No" to drugs campaign in the 80's. like it really worked. We won the war on drugs right?

He was and he was banned from the NFL for five years. Heard he was a QB with an electric arm.

[disneyspy]

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_6hDZt1e0ofY/SW1r5DgzcjI/AAAAAAAADAw/rHBzthuDxbM/s320/ayds+candy.jpg

[Judge Smails]

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_6hDZt1e0ofY/SW1r5DgzcjI/AAAAAAAADAw/rHBzthuDxbM/s320/ayds+candy.jpg

Nice AYDS call-back.

[disneyspy]

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[sailor]

Its a classic Simpsons episode and what most people don't realize is that its based on an actual marketing blunder by McDonalds and the 1984 Olympics:

http://www.cracked.com/article_19334_the-5-biggest-disasters-in-history-marketing-ideas.html





I thought about explaining the joke in my original post, but I didn't want Dude! to have a cow.

People don't know that? I was 13 and basically ate for free at mcdonalds that summer. It was great, you'd redeem a winner and get a new game piece - another winner!

[KnoxHarrington]

This creepy fuck:

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-5-e2JD59BCc/Tk-4MAXqifI/AAAAAAAAAIQ/CMocl84ob14/s1600/Burger%2BKing%2BAds.JPG

They are apparently getting rid of this thing, but what were they thinking in the first place?

[Jujubees2]

http://i2.squidoocdn.com/resize/squidoo_images/250/draft_lens1314222module1826749photo_lg_blak_4pk.jp g

[Dirtbag]

This Bucky Larson abortion. Nick Swardson is a douche and the movie looks terrible enough on its own merit but then they put Grandma's Boy in the ads to make them 10 times worse.

[WRESTLINGFAN]

The XFL

Also those awful 70s-80s MLB uniforms with elastic waists and V neck jerseys. Those teams who wore them looked like glorified office softball teams

[TripleSkeet]

We have a thread for most obnoxious commercials but for this thread I mean not just a commercial itseld but an entire ad campaign.

What made me think of it was the stupid Coors Light commercials with the bars that tell you if the beer is cold.

It was a retarded idea when it was just the mountains changing colors or with one bar but to now add a second bar for really really cold is just plain idiotic.

So the commercial is only dwarfed in it's ridiculousness by the entire premise.

As a bartender I hate these things more then anyone. Its hard enough running around trying to take care of a busy bar without some jackoff telling me the beer isnt cold enough because the "supercold" line isnt lit up. Fucking dickbags.

[Sinestro]

"Four mules and an acre". Still hasn't happened.

[PapaBear]

Its a classic Simpsons episode and what most people don't realize is that its based on an actual marketing blunder by McDonalds and the 1984 Olympics:

http://www.cracked.com/article_19334_the-5-biggest-disasters-in-history-marketing-ideas.html
In the 90's, a DC area Dominos Pizza owner promised a dollar off for every touchdown that the Skins scored the day before, for the whole year. The first year he did it, the Skins had their highest scoring season on record. They were averaging something like 45-50 points a game. Given the price of a Dominos pizza at the time, they ended having quite a few days of one or two dollar pizzas at ever location the guy owned. And owned a LOT.

[Chigworthy]

Six Flags souvenir head scarves.

[Judge Smails]

http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/00995/gates-seinfeld-460_995850c.jpg

[StanUpshaw]

"Four mules and an acre". Still hasn't happened.

That's a crowded acre!

[keithy_19]

Every year in grammar school I would do a report on Thomas Edison. He was my go to guy for an easy B. They didn't mention how he tortured an elephant in the Scholastic texts.

[Judge Smails]

Every year in grammar school I would do a report on Thomas Edison. He was my go to guy for an easy B. They didn't mention how he tortured an elephant in the Scholastic texts.

Did you include that he was the first movie pirate , when movie pirating wasn't mainstream?


In 1902, agents of Thomas Edison bribed a theater owner in London for a copy of A Trip to the Moon by Georges Méliès. Edison then made hundreds of copies and showed them in New York City. Méliès received no compensation. He was counting on taking the film to the US and recapture its huge cost by showing it throughout the country when he realized it had already been shown there by Edison. This effectively bankrupted Méliès.

[Jujubees2]

http://t3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSQ5ePpjDfC-3YVvS3vJDmLJVrW3LREXpsKetypakN8ZrB3Tjte

[Melk]

Did you include that he was the first movie pirate , when movie pirating wasn't mainstream?
So, even though Pepper Hicks loves Nichola Tesla, he is an Edison-esque pirate at heart

[Sinestro]

Where's Herb? Burger King Promotion.


102.7 Blink and you might miss it.


Sports-guys pledge for 1 million listeners. "I'm Sinestro calling from Ronfez.net, and I'm pledging 1 million listeners". WTF?

[Judge Smails]

Restroom Inspection Stickers
Big Ass Cards
Spot Fez in the Apple Store and win a banning from the show

[Dude!]

fezident pushing himself
to be a rf.net moderator

[KnoxHarrington]

Restroom Inspection Stickers
Big Ass Cards
Spot Fez in the Apple Store and win a banning from the show

If we're throwing in terrible radio promotions, then Hold Your Wee for a Wii has to be the all time champ here.

Well, that or Sex for Sam. Though, in O&A's defense, at least no one died in that.

[WRESTLINGFAN]

http://images3.cpcache.com/product/323416513v5_480x480_Front.jpg

[fezident]

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/0/06/ChrisGainsAlbum.PNG

http://patriceharter.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/pepsi_blue.jpg

http://www.fredlaw.com/areas/trademark/images/upslogo.jpg

[fezident]

fezident pushing himself
to be a rf.net moderator

?

[PapaBear]

fezident pushing himself
to be a rf.net moderator

?
Forgive him. "fezident" and "IamFoghat" look so much alike. It's easy to be confused.

[Chigworthy]

The local recycling plant is offering free meth for every 100 pounds of copper. Terrible idea.

[cougarjake13]

The local recycling plant is offering free meth for every 100 pounds of copper. Terrible idea.




200 is ok


100 insane