I don’t mean like scams or anything like that. I mean what’s the ad that has done the worst job as an advertisement? Instead of making you want to buy the product you wanted to avoid it.
There was an ad recently on UK TV for some shitty food delivery company,and had a constant loud doorbell sound.
I emailed the TV channel and said myself and everyone I know have stopped watching their channel because the advert was so obnoxiously irritating.
They emailed back a month later and said they’d asked the advertiser to redo the advert due to multiple complaints
We can make a difference if we make an effort!
Wendy’s had a recruitment campaign “a job at Wendy’s serves me right” and I could not think of a job there as anything other than a punishment for something
You know what you did
Rama margarine
Every 90s ad looked (almost) like this. At least in my country. Cringe times.
We might not live far away… this one was the cringiest to be honest, the others ones, not as much. But this… I do eat margarine, but after seing this, I never even thought about buying Rama ever again, though it has crossed my mind before I saw this ad.
Not gonna lie, I kinda love it.
Gillette had an advertisement and it was a bunch of different hot men lined up and a woman fondling their bodies, evaluating what trimming style she found most sexually appealing. They were encouraging you to buy their trimming products.
I just thought, let’s flip it around. There’s a bunch of busty and tight women in swimsuits, and a man comes and lustfully fondles their bodies, and then they’re telling you to buy makeup.
Edit. I should add that this was what made me decide to just stop buying their products. It was just one commercial, and I’m not making a big whoopee about it, but it motivated me to make a change and there’s no reason to go back. I pretty much realized through this that I don’t need any of their products that I formerly used, and I can shave myself for pennies versus what I used to pay them for disposable blades.
All the anti-smoking ads. I don’t support smoking, but the anti-smoking ads are so dramatic I’m surprised they’re allowed by the Geneva Convention on psychological warfare.
Now Im reminded of he Thai Insurance ad
Crazy frog. Advertising what, a ringtone? I stopped watching television and never really started again.
An ad for Descovy, an HIV prophylactic, that they kept playing in Portland in 2020. You gotta step up… PReP UP!! It featured this super creepy dude who I guess was supposed to be gay and kept making eye contact with the camera. I felt like I was being stalked.
HEADON
A few years ago, Skittles had this ad with a dancing elf looking dude. I used to love Skittles, dentist will back that up, but i just couldn’t support that kinda nonsense.
#2 would be those Quiznos ads… I wouldn’t eat there anyway, but the deep-fried hamster looking thing isn’t going to convince me.
Excuse me, but are you referring to…
BERRIES AND CREAM?!?
The Quiznos ad was a reference to a popular Flash video from back then. It made sense if you were online a lot, but I can only imagine how off-putting it was without proper context.
Which one?! I remember eBaums World, Newgrounds, and whatever Digg was recommending, but I must have missed that one.
Spongmonkeys. It was posted on Rathergood.com way back. Knowyourmeme entry if you want to see more about it.
Skittles also had that add with skittles pox. That triggered my phobia (not sure how to spell it)
On the other end, my favorite Skittles commercial:
It was an election poster. The slogan (translated into English) was “Forbid Crime!”
there was an old ad with a kid sitting on a dock fishing, eating a bologna sandwich and singing “my bologna has a first name, its o-s-c-a-r. my bologna has a second name its m-a-y-e-r”…
nothing wrong with the commercial except it turned out to be an ear worm that would live in my head FOREVER. my brain trots it out at least once a month for no good reason. usually more.
ive never bought bologna and i’m low key mad at Oscar Mayer so maybe this counts?
Jimmy John’s, Carls Jr…
Immudefense. Whenever I see this I feel second-hand embarrassment for those people standing there shaking that stupid little pill.
That Wendy’s ad with the meme guy that I wanna strangle. Haven’t eaten at Wendy’s in like 8 years because of that ad
Any ad that runs on youtube. Literally. All of them. You have paid for the privilege of ruining my enjoyment of whatever I was trying to see. Eff you and the product you rode in on.
i disliked an ad in tv before 2000 and decided to not buy the deodorant stick then because of that. like 10 to 15 years later i accidently bought the product- long forgotten that this was the one with that bad ad and actually liked the product and bought it regulary for some time (then remembering how bad that ad was, but okay the product was good actually). that was until they decided to put more plastics into packaging as well as less content into it (same price for package) just to make it more costly for me thus more profitable for them, whilst producing more litter and destroying more resources just for profit. The higher price would not have been too bad, but creating more litter for more profit made me then search a better product. then found a bio product with all natural contents, very few plastic packaging and even less pricy.
That ad made me NOT buy it. So that was the worst ad i’ve ever seen in two ways: it reduced my willingness to buy their product to far below zero lasting for a decade and i did not even want to try the product that i later found to be actually good, so worst case for the vendor AND the customer.
However that product later also had the “best” Price raise (by less content) for me ever as that made me search and find the then newly existing even better and more natural, less pricy product of their competitor.
Maybe good CEOs are rare.
