http://www.adrants.com/ Marketing and Advertising News With Attitude by Steve Hall and Angela Natividad en-us 2011-08-01T07:54:07-05:00 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/adrants/adrank/bad/~3/7JV59L__Pfg/15yearold-mentality-naked.php Let's be clear right up front. This is a terrible ad.]]> Bad 2011-08-01T07:54:07-05:00 http://www.adrants.com/2011/08/15yearold-mentality-naked.php http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/adrants/adrank/bad/~3/umOzqdgf96A/ing-directs-fables-probably-wont.php Beattie McGuinness Bungay's fables campaign for ING Direct UK are inviting at first glance, bearing a vague resemblance to The Wind in the Willows, but are most readily compared to Aesop's Fables -- except with "morals" only loosely tied to unmotivated plotlines. ]]> Television 2011-06-07T12:19:42-05:00 http://www.adrants.com/2011/06/ing-directs-fables-probably-wont.php http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/adrants/adrank/bad/~3/abKGvGOj9D4/festis-unbores-with-newsvomiting-cgi.php Here's one of those wack ideas masquerading as something novel. ]]> Bad 2011-06-06T11:09:13-05:00 http://www.adrants.com/2011/06/festis-unbores-with-newsvomiting-cgi.php http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/adrants/adrank/bad/~3/npWCFo_9bXw/social-media-fail-homesense-facebook.php Brand completely disregards Facebook as a form of social media communication.]]> Bad 2011-02-21T15:58:18-05:00 http://www.adrants.com/2011/02/social-media-fail-homesense-facebook.php http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/adrants/adrank/bad/~3/q_DdS7hOl2k/victoria-justice-joins-photoshop.php If you've never heard of Photoshop Disasters its a blog dedicated to hunting down and shaming poorly Photoshopped photography in ad campaigns.]]> Celebrity 2010-11-15T12:03:50-05:00 http://www.adrants.com/2010/11/victoria-justice-joins-photoshop.php http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/adrants/adrank/bad/~3/vfjNWPvjNp8/mitsubishi-live-drive-a-stupid-marketing.php Well this is pretty stupid. 180LA and B-Reel created a "technological first." Dubbed the Mitsubishi Live Drive, the companies created a way for people to test drive an Outlander Sport online. Or, "Live over the internet" as they like to say.]]> Bad 2010-11-10T14:33:12-05:00 http://www.adrants.com/2010/11/mitsubishi-live-drive-a-stupid-marketing.php http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/adrants/adrank/bad/~3/Qg2RTt3ut1s/rescue-team-opts-for-snack-during.php Well this ad is just stupid.]]> Bad 2010-10-25T20:44:36-05:00 http://www.adrants.com/2010/10/rescue-team-opts-for-snack-during.php http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/adrants/adrank/bad/~3/c7YspexC2NA/really-really-windows-phone-to.php Hmm. How exactly does a commercial showing how obsessed we've all become with our phones supposed to convince us that yet another phone is going to change that obsession?]]> Bad 2010-10-11T13:41:54-05:00 http://www.adrants.com/2010/10/really-really-windows-phone-to.php http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/adrants/adrank/bad/~3/ajDgTTZwF5M/exploding-kids-not-the-best-approach-for.php While we're all for attention-getting advertising, blowing up children in a classroom really isn't a tactic we'd whole-heartedly recommend.]]> Bad 2010-10-07T10:41:19-05:00 http://www.adrants.com/2010/10/exploding-kids-not-the-best-approach-for.php http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/adrants/adrank/bad/~3/KmOsOZkpHIU/kindle-bests-ipad-in-sun-costs-less.php The YouTube comments are the best thing about this new ad touting the Kindle's ability to supposedly read more easily in direct sunlight.]]> Bad 2010-09-14T11:04:45-05:00 http://www.adrants.com/2010/09/kindle-bests-ipad-in-sun-costs-less.php http://www.adrants.com/images/adrants_logo_blue_150.jpghttp://www.adrants.com/adrank/bad/