Advertising gone wrong !!!

1. The Dairy Association's huge success with the campaign "Got Milk?" prompted them to expand advertising to Mexico. It was soon brought to their attention the Spanish translation read "Are you lactating?"

2. Colgate introduced a toothpaste in France called Cue, the name of a notorious porno magazine.

3.  When Parker Pen marketed a ball-point pen in Mexico, its ads were supposed to have read, "it won't leak in your pocket and embarrass you". Instead, the company thought that the word "embarazar" (to impregnate) meant to embarrass, so the ad read: "It won't leak in your pocket and make you pregnant".

Alka-Seltzer's "Hangover is Dangerous" campaign.

Sometimes We don't catch awesome ad campaigns because they're run in very far off places, like Ukraine, for example.


Such is the case with Alka-Seltzer's "Hangover is Dangerous" campaign.


The print ad campaign from 2008 ran in Ukraine's magazines and print media around the holiday season and featured images like the one above -- of a clearly hungover man, ostensibly on the morning after really tying one on, washing his dishes with his kitten instead of a sponge....lol...

Advertising joke

A well-stacked young advertising secretary wore tight knit dresses that showed off her figure, especially when she walked.
Her young, aggressive boss motioned her into his office one afternoon and closed the door.
Pointing to her tightly covered derriere, he asked, "Is that for sale?"
 "Of course not!" she snapped angrily, blushing furiously.
 Unchanged, he replied quietly, "Then, I suggest you quit advertising it."