Poorly Placed Advertising

Just for fun ... from the good folks over at Trendhunter.com. It is time to sit back, relax, and enjoy some Poorly Placed Advertising.

Charlie Booker's Ten Biggest C***s in Advertising

Have you ever heard of Charlie Brooker? He's an English comedian who is (at the least) profane. In any event, I was searching Google the other day for Marketing Trends (as part of researching my 2009 trends) and came across some of his satirical "commentary".

The following two videos really needs to come with this disclaimer:
"The following videos contain mature subject matter". Interesting however, as they weren't tagged that way on YouTube.

Brooker's: 10 Biggest Cocks in Advertising


10 biggest Cocks and she cocks in advertising

Pelosi Rickroll? What the?

This morning I noticed that the term "pelosi rickroll" was suddenly one of the most searched terms on Google. Why? What does it mean? Let's take a look.

The first article was on Time.com and describes how Speaker of the House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi, staff put together a simple prank video (also shown below) with the express intent of creating a viral video that will introduce the Speaker Pelosi to the world. Time wrote about it. I'm writing about it. Thousands of others will write about it and tens or hundreds of thousands ... or perhaps even millions of people will watch it.

This is viral video nearly at its best.

As explained on Time.com:

The Rickroll, an internet meme that started a few years ago, is basically a prank in which unsuspecting viewers are tricked into listening to Rick Astley's 1987 hit "Never Gonna Give You Up". The classic Rickroll is when someone is tricked into clicking on link that takes them to a video of the song.

What a great idea! Kudo's to Pelosi's staff for (a) using the new media at their fingertips, and (b) having a sense of humour!

Maybe this also will become part of Pelosi's (and indeed Obama's) branding: Take the job seriously, but not yourself.

Marketing Jokes?

Okay - I'm looking for a few good, clean, non-offensive, fun and self depricating Marketing Jokes. I'm thinking along the lines of "How many Advertising Executives does it take to screw in a light bulb?" (Anyone have a punch line for that?)

Holiday season is fast approaching ... and I need some good material!

Please post a comment to this blog with your favorite Marketing Joke.