A Shameful Roundup if the Year's Most Humiliating Marketing Blunders

See them here.

Sorry about having to view them only one at a time, but there are some real doozies here.

How could they not include this one?

W.T.F, Harvey Nichols?!!

“Try to contain your excitement,” said these ads for British fashion brand Harvey Nichols, which showed the models peeing themselves. Some people took offense, but the company said it was merely making “a visual representation of a well-known phrase.”

I’m not sure the ones involving employees tweeting to the company account by accident should really count, but they are pretty funny.

The one with the woman in the neck brace is horrible and I don’t know how that got green-lighted.

But I absolutely love how AMC responded to Oreo. :smiley:

“Don’t name your store ‘Hilter.’” - Wow.

Why would OP’s link start at the end, and make me click back one slide at a time to the beginning?

I think it’s a marketing thing, to make you notice the brand.

Think of it as a Bonus Marketing Blunder

It worked. I just tried to think of what site it was, and I correctly remembered it was from Adweek.

INCEPTION

#15 Bic For Her

:smiley:

Windows 8.0 “Here it is…now buy it”:rolleyes:

I remember some of these when they happened. The Bic For Her reviews on Amazon were funny as hell. They used one of the less funny ones for this piece.

I didn’t understand the Oreo tweet. A lot of people bring snacks to the theater. I often have a baggie with cookies or candy in my pocket. I’m not paying the prices they charge at the concession stand.

I guess not knowing about Pedo bear is a good thing? I had never heard of it. Why would anyone outside that illegal community know about it? I started to google it and thought, “no I don’t want that in my google history”.

Still, it was a weird coincidence that companys mascot looked so much like the bad bear. :wink:

Well, it **is **explicitly against the rules to bring outside food to any theater I’ve been to. Just because people do it doesn’t make it right. Oreo was basically encouraging people to break the rules, and AMC called them on it.

You understand, though, that the movie theater itself has no reason to accept that practice, right?

I sincerely doubt that “pedobear” is accepted among paedophiles. I have seen it used exclusively as a joke (a very bad joke usually) on Demotivators and similar Interwebby-things.

There was actually a thread on that one.

Neither me. I can understand why AMC wouldn’t like it, but how is a tiff between Oreo and AMC a “blunder”? I can’t see any way it would have damaged Oreo’s brand.

Agree that the accidental tweets sholdn’t really count.

I rather want a bag from Hitler. Does this make me a bad person? :slight_smile:

Pedo bear is just a joke. That said, I have a hard time believing that no one involved in the Nestle’s shoot had ever heard of him.

Submitted for your consideration: Anti-abortion coathangers.