More weird advertisments
I was checking out something at Facebook this weekend when a silhouette in a tiny ad on the left side of the page caught my eye. For obvious reasons:
So what is this little blurb advertising? A ‘gentleman’s club’? An escort service? An internet porn site?
Nope. It’s stuff for your teeth:
Can anyone explain what a woman in a mini skirt and spiked heels has to do with tooth polish? I don’t get it.
I spotted this next one a couple weeks ago. Here’s the online obituary of the father of a friend, as it appeared on the web site of The Danville (Va.) Register Bee:
My goodness, that’s a brightly-colored ad over there on the right side. What’s it say, anyway?
“Live Passionately.” From the Virginia Tourism Corporation.
Yikes! Not appropriate, people!
Last month, Seattle’s Washington Mutual Bank — better known as WaMu — kicked off a playful new branding campaign. No problem, right?
Except one of their billboards ended up next to an area landmark strip club:
The Restless Mouse blogger found it amusing last fall when these two ads appeared together while he was shopping at Amazon:
Also last fall, the Brooklyn Kitchen blogger posted:
Jeff Jarvis, new media evangelist and blogger, has an advertisement for what seems [to be] a technologically advanced toilet seat on his site.
I have no great comment about this, only some juvenile snickering.
Globe-trotting newspaper consultant Juan Antonio Giner loves pointing out bad ad juxtapositions in his blog. He came across this beauty back in January on a British newspaper site:
Read our previous post about amusingly awful advertising juxtapositions. And we once wrote about a very tacky ad we spotted on the web site of a large paper that oughta know better.
A couple of years ago, the Online Journalism Review of Southern Cal wrote about bad juxtapositions with Google’s contextural ads. The Wall Street Journal also took a swing at that same topic.