Product Placement

Saturday, December 16, 2006 35 Comments

by Aaron Naparstek

Clarence

Oh what a feeling… Toyota.
http://uppergreenside.org Glenn

It’s like

smoking ads next to a study on lung cancer

alcohol ad next to a case of drunken spousal abuse.

—

When will we start treating cars the public health threat they are?
http://www.startsandfits.com AD

Airlines pull all advertising from newspaper editions that report on plane crashes. Automakers don’t have that luxury because they’d be pulling their advertising every day.
http://uppergreenside.org Glenn

Or newspapers would simply stop publishing without all that ad revenue…
http://www.xtermpest.com/ DTSLW

If advertisers paid more attention like the airline industry, we wouldn’t have half as many laughs at their expense.
http://yfinder.de/driven/index.php/2006/12/11/unfortunately_placed_ads wayfinder

I’ve collected a number of unfortunately placed ads (click on my name to see them). This one’s a particularly cheeky sort.
Dan

Found the actual article, and it was a BMW… should’ve been a BMW ad.
http://www.monomachines.com John

Nice! That could actually be a fun spoof site to make…pairing those kinds of things up. Maybe pairing up some of the medications with some of their side effects (nausea, headache, loose bowels) it would be great.

John
http://www.monomachines.com
Sandy

This is cool !
http://www.moneyvsdebt.com/ Money Vs Debt

OH MY GOSH! Thats pretty crappy yet still hilarious!
http://web2007.wordpress.com Jackie R.

This is very hilarious!!
Larry

I think it would have been more ironic had it been an ad for Dodge.
http://www.neohide.com Keith

This can’t be compared to smoking ad beside lung cancer. Toyota is a more acceptable ads, and to be placed on top of that article is really unthinkable.
Rob

That’s like the classic one from many years ago…

http://i69.photobucket.com/albums/i64/degasa/dohburn.gif
http://www.nowebsite.com Some guy

It wasn’t all that funny….
Whatever

In Marketing it doesn’t matter if it’s a good or a bad news, as long as the people still have the name in their heads.
http://aishel.wordpress.com aishel

Reminds me of this:

http://stayfree.typepad.com/photos/uncategorized/mcdonalds_billboard.jpg
http://www.insidejoeshead.com/blog Joe Philipson

That’s hilarious, that made my day.
sj

The article in the background was an article about my next door neighbor who died because a car hit her. She was a very nice lady and the man who hit her said he was going no faster than 10 mph. the car was a bmw.
kleam

I saw a picture of the car afterwards, and I have to say, those toyota’s can really take a beating without denting. LOL
Dan

They have a special school just for queens?
http://www.freetube.us.tc Sow

lol they deserve it!
http://davezilla.com/ Davezilla

I used to work at a newspaper and got in trouble once by not realizing I ran a full page ad for a smoke shop on the same page as the obituaries.
Justin

you got it toyota
Elroy McFadden

As an old journalism major, this is called unfortunate placement. But funny.
http://www.yourmoneyinfo.com/blog/ Anita

Nowadays websites put advertisements like this and we cannot read the article without clicking on the image or moving the image. This is exactly like they do it.Truly Hilarious.
http://z-from-a.blogspot.com A to Z of World

So…funny and unfortunate too that I know to how extent marketing strategies can go…some times beyond sentiments.

Chandu
http://z-from-a.blogspot.com
http://www.theshishashop.com Mohammed

I absolutely hate these times of ads! They are intrusive and just annoy the hell out of me, and I know Im not alone!

Mohammed

http://www.theshishashop.com
Whatever You’re Into, Get Into Shisha
http://multiz.com MultiZ

I’d like to buy a Toyota now (a little sarcasm).

Is there a way to “X” out the ads?
http://www.panix.com/~steveo/cgi/metrocard_bonus_calc.html steveo

May I recommend the Flashblock extension for Firefox? Flash stuff doesn’t start unless you click on a little Flash logo that appears in place of the Flash object.
http://www.iland.dk Mia

Intrusive indeed – let alone slowing down my browser and starting unwanted audio tracks at max volume.

Kinda wish it could be blocked somehow..
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spuds_MacKenzie Spuds MacKenzie

May I recommend the Flashblock extension for Firefox? Flash stuff doesn’t start unless you click on a little Flash logo that appears in place of the Flash object.
http://www.special-dictionary.com Alex

Nice catch! =) Always loved similar things
http://fuery.com Johnny Fuery

How about a link to Flashblock?
http://www.panix.com/~steveo/cgi/metrocard_bonus_calc.html steveo

http://www.google.com/search?q=flashblock&btnI=lucky

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