Husk vi også servere tørvejr – this Danish ad says to remember that McDonald’s also serves in dry weather. So…we pair a miserable day, and a woman who looks totally miserable with a product you want people to feel good about. MISSED IT
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Pepsi Revives No Matter How ‘Dead’ You Feel
Wonder how this will effect the ZomPoc?
Now this is perfect. Pepsi is so powerful that it can revive even a dead person. I do wonder how this will impact the ZomPoc? Is this maybe how it all gets started? Someone spilled a Pepsi over a grave and voila! Zombie Apocalypse!
The product name is prominent. The image is engaging and memorable. It isn’t offensive (except to a very very small percentage of viewers). It is funny.
Well done Pepsi! Nailed it!
Anti-Fat Ad -French Ministry of Health – MISSED IT!
Missed It By That Much
Face it France. People turn away from things that gross them out. How many overweight people report feeling invisible a lot of the time because the world shuts them out. This doesn’t make someone want to lose weight. It just makes them turn the page.
Hair Removal Ad – Grossing Out the Buyers
Missed It By That Much!
The idea is obviously that the hair removal product is so easy and so effective that this man’s chest rug comes right off. But the alluding to skin pulling away from the body is too gross for words. Skinning this man alive – even if only a layer or two of his skin – is an image that probably doesn’t make most people think “oooo! great product”. And those that do think that..maybe are good folks to be your customers.
A Dog and a Dew
Who missed the Dog Dew connection when they approved this???
MISSED IT BY THAT MUCH!!
Once again I have to wonder….WHO approved this? Seriously. Do you really want people ordering a Dog Dew combo? Mountain Dew has had a lot of clever and fun ads…but this one should have been tossed where dog do usually goes – on the trash pile.
Again, I get that any publicity can end up being positive. But just how negative can an association be between things before subconsciously people start avoiding that product.
A lot of obvious nicknames and similar slogans come to mind: ‘Poop a Dew’, “Dew Doody’, among others. And don’t even get me started on the sexual references that this combo brings to mind.
Here’s an idea. If you want to stick to this line of advertising and marketing – here’s your next slogan: “Dogs do Dew too! Do you?”
So Mountain Dew, for the most unpalatable ad in a long time, the Missed It By That Much award is yours.
“Where’s the beef?” Superstar
Wendy’s fast food restaurant had a mega superstar with the little old lady who kept asking “Where’s the beef?” about every other fast food restaurant’s hamburgers.
Plop Plop. Fizz Fizz – Superstar
Alka Seltzer. Of all things. A stomach acid medicine. Had one of the most successful marketing campaigns ever.
Here’s a link to hear Sammy Davis Jr. singing it.
The Egg McMuffin of Ads
Sometimes an ad should just fail, and doesn’t. McDonald’s new ad campaign comparing anything great to being ‘the egg mcmuffin’ of it’s category. Such as “Wow, that song was the Egg McMuffin of rock!” I laughed when I saw this commercial. No really. Not in derision. It made me laugh for real.
And then, this morning I knew McDonald’s had a winner. I was taking my 15 year old daughter to school and we stopped (not at McDonald’s) to get a breakfast sandwich to eat on the way. Turkey sausage and eggwhite scrambled egg. My daughter commented on how great her sandwich was and in a moment that makes marketers weep with joy, we looked at each other and said “You mean it’s the Egg McMuffin of breakfast sandwiches!” Ironic since we were eating someone else’s breakfast sandwich. But the point was, the ad had not only stuck in our head, but we used it in a similar context.
This shouldn’t have worked. But, most of the best ads fall into that category. So McDonald’s, you nailed it!
Stinky Stinky Stinky
Stinky! Stinky! Stinky! Hefty! Hefty! Hefty!
That’s the audio for a new Hefty trash bag commercial. Wow. Do they really want that association? Everytime I think of Hefty I should think stinky? I get the point. Hefty takes care of the worst trash. But that commercial is so obnoxious that we mute it when it comes on. And guess what Hefty folks? If we muted it, we aren’t watching it either. Auditory memories are strong. You just associated your product with an extremely negative auditory memory. Wise up. When people go shopping for trash bags they don’t buy the one they have a negative association with.
For coming up with the worst possible association for a trash bag, Hefty gets the “Missed It By That Much” Award
Geico: the Gecko, and the Cavemen
Geico has two advertising themes: the Gecko, and the Cavemen. Originally the cavemen were used for fun using the saying “so easy a caveman can do it”. It was funny and unexpected. But then they changed to focusing on the cavemen and their being upset with Geico. And in the process, they lost the point – that Geico is easy to use; lost the humor of using the comparison only to find out that cavemen were still around; and created a new form of bigotry..surprisingly enough…against cavemen. The use of the cavemen was a gag joke that worked. Gag jokes aren’t often good ideas for making a point, but these worked. Usually the gag overshadows or eliminates entirely the product being advertised. Now the cavemen commercials are uncomfortable, not funny, and using bigotry as a means for carrying the product message. More than gag humor, bigotry has to be one of the worst ideas for trying to bring in customers. Message to Geico: Drop the cavemen and try to remember that your point was to sell Geico insurance not convince the public that cavemen are stupid. Geico – for choosing bigotry over product marketing <p style=”text-align:center;”><strong>GEICO MISSED IT BY THAT MUCH</strong></p>
