Erectile Ad Dysfunction

February 4th, 2010

Is this contextually targeted based on alternative spellings of “Cox”?

How else might you spell Cox?

$9 Muff Diving?

February 2nd, 2010

Someone will be fired for this one. I’m guessing its the junior copywriter that pulled a fast one on his boss, but not on the ever-peering eyes of Twitterville.

From the Spirit Airlines homepage:

$9 Muff Diving? Seems like a pretty cheap deal!

CEO Needs a Wax?

February 1st, 2010

Spotted on ScribeMedia.org:

Either David Wadler, CEO of Twistage, has a sexy little secret, or Blip.TV needs to work on their contextual targeting. This should have been an easy, B2B layup for a contextual overlay. Doesn’t anyone want to reach the online video B2B market?

Time for Twistage's Dave Wadler to clean up for bikini season already?

Here’s the whole interview….

Just Checking…

January 23rd, 2010

Does Lysol know that they’ve got auto-play, audio on video ads with no mute or pause button on a site that publishes a list of cracked, patched and otherwise copyright protected software? Does Adotube know they are serving it?

Oddly, the inventory is alledgedly protected by Mpire, whose website claims that their technology offers “Publisher accountability ensures advertisers’ messages are being delivered to the right sites.” I’m not sure this is the type of inventory - or ad experience - their advertisers have in mind. Maybe Lysol will switch to using DoubleVerify? This raises the question - Who is checking all of the inventory that the verification / authentication / brand protection software claim to protect? Surely Mpire isn’t the only with a few ads gone bad.

Mpire served ad on Torrent site with illegal downloads

 

Conan’s Tonight Show Ad on Craigslist

January 15th, 2010

But whats with the :30 pre-roll for Pantene? C’mon. I’m a guy. That uses Rogaine.

Another Bad Contextual Match for Aflac

January 14th, 2010

Wow. These guys can’t catch a break.

Aflac sponsorship of SNL's Digital Shorts

Screen shot courtesy of Jai Decker, CEO, DrivenTide

Fear of Ducks, Sponsored by AFLAC

January 12th, 2010

Bad contextual match here. But who has a fear of ducks anyway?

Fear of Ducks? Maybe I'll buy some insurance for that.

Who Is Managing Creative for Atlantis?

December 22nd, 2009

Another example of piss poor ad exchange management? A typo calling an old ad? Just plain stupidity? Could be any of those reasons - or plenty more - for this ad showing up on a page.

I’d go see Jo Dee Messina at the Atlantis, but, uh, this ad is for an event that happened A MONTH AGO!

Today: December 22, 2009.
Event: Thanksgiving Weekend.

Man, I sure wish I saw this a month ago.

Maybe Scott Towels Can Clean Up This Mess

December 9th, 2009

Fine, its more of a glitch than an honest to goodness mess, but i coudln’t resist the pun.

While checking my Yahoo mail, this banner ad expanded - not sure if I rolled over it or not - but I had no way to close it. Looks like some sort of DHTML error, since the search bar appears over the ad unit and not under it. Either way, you be the judge.

Scott Towel Ad on Yahoo

Virgin Sues Adrants over Parody

January 29th, 2009

OK, so maybe it was too soon for Hudson River Plane jokes, but Virgin Airlines didn’t need to file a lawsuit over it.

Our good friends at industry blog (and side-splittingly funny and sarcastic) Adrants are on the wrong end of a legal assault for posting a fake ad (cached page), mocking the big red airline for taking advantage of the news cycle.

Good think that satire is protected under the free speech part of our constitution. And, Hey Mr. Branson, lighten up, dude.