Blunders in ad placement

August 30, 2007 by Kris Hoet 1 Comment

Sometimes even a good advertisement can turn out pretty bad. Here’s what happens when an the combination of the ad and the placement are quite unlucky. Sometimes that results in something rather funny…

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… and in many times the result is just very unfortunate/bad:

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This is just a quick selection of some of these blunders, there are a lot more to be found at Oddee who did a series on Unfortunately Placed Ads: initial top 15 and the top 15 reloaded.

[Via the Marketing blog]

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