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Unfortunate Advertising Placement

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? by LordLuciusBanter

From yesterday's Telegraph.

"Right guys, what ad should we put next to a story about a cyclone?"

http://tinyurl.com/3ktuj3

LordLuciusBanter | 09 May '08, 10:52 | Send note | Report this | Reply

:D

Alex-in-Ciderland | 9 May '08, 10:52 | Send note | Report this | Reply

dammit, i can't see that

what is it?

pieces_of_reece | 9 May '08, 10:53 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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medulla | 9 May '08, 10:53 | Send note | Report this | Reply

haha!!!

sarkyfox | 9 May '08, 10:53 | Send note | Report this | Reply

I seem to recall a similar case where a BK advert

boasting of flame grilled burgers appeared next to an article about the ongoing operation to cull cattle on mass funeral pyres circa the foot and mouth outbreak.

This may have been on the day of the now infamous 'Apocalypse Cow!' headline.

Alex-in-Ciderland | 9 May '08, 10:54 | Send note | Report this | Reply

I work at an advertising agency

Though I don't work on the media side any more. But one of our clients got their best ever response rate when their ad was placed next to the story in the Sun about a guy who got his wheelchair stuck on the front of a tram and they'd put a speech bubble on him saying "Yeah I know"

LordLuciusBanter | 9 May '08, 11:41 | Send note | Report this | Reply

Haha

Brillaint!

Also if you have ever caught the overland in London Bridge station there is a billboard with a business man and a business woman, they are both looking down and the caption reads:

"Unhappy with your package?"

Makes me laugh every time.
Juvenile?

msmonipenni | 9 May '08, 10:55 | Send note | Report this | Reply

There's a posh Japanese

restaurant near me called Tsunami and there were flyers everywhere to promote the grand opening, around the time of the tsunami a couple of years ago.

Ruby_Tuesday | 9 May '08, 10:56 | Send note | Report this | Reply