Archive for the ‘Bad Placement’ Category

Lucky Branding? Or Pissing People Off

Sunday, August 24th, 2008

Is this just a fluke? Don’t tell me that there is a multi billion dollar production going on, and nobody sees this and thinks that maybe its a bit overkill to keep your logo on top of the olympic flame during the closing ceremonies? like, “uh, we’re covering the flame. kill the logo for camera one.”

It this an ad gone bad? an ad gone good? or just ‘one of those things’?

Coors Supports Drunken Santas

Sunday, August 10th, 2008

Nice holiday pre-roll…..a few months late.

Another example of bad contextual targeting

But at least the video clip was funny. Wish I had the whole thing for you and not just a screen shot.

Bad Matches on Yahoo

Sunday, July 13th, 2008

Contextual Ad Blunder

and this one, too….

Contextual Ad Blunder

Bad Ad Placement on CNN

Sunday, July 13th, 2008