27 Idiotic Advertising Techniques That Need To Go Away

Anyone who thinks these are the best way to sell us stuff needs to just stop.
27 Idiotic Advertising Techniques That Need To Go Away

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Companies have more ways than ever to reach their customers. You'd think that would lead to a ton of innovative, impressive new advertising techniques. You'd be thinking wrong. Advertisements still trot out the same old ineffective tactics they've been using since the magazine days.

As a public service, we asked our readers to list the most annoying examples. The winner is below, but first, the runners-up:

ABSURD CHARACTERS CAN BE AMUSING, BUT I'LL BE DAMNED IF I CAN EVER EVEN REMEMBER WHAT THEY WERE TRYING TO SELL ME. to say Hmm. I'm going detergent, sh
Hefty TUMS HEETY, HEFTY, HEFTY! ANTACO Aroo eht 9TSO 4a8M m4 State Farmr TUM, TUM, TUM, TUM, TUUUUUMS LIKE A GOOD NEIGHBOR... Nationwide IS ON YOUR SI
USING A PERFECT YOUNG MODEL To SELL ANTI-AGING CREAM, DOES NOT CONVINCE ME YOUR PRODUGT WJORKS. THIS MODEL HAS NEVER HAD A SINGLE WRINKLE IN HER ENTIR
CRACKED THE NET IRON THE ONLY TITLC CHEF THAY MATTERS. PEFS -UFER food SUNDAYE 9r: Why do COOKING SHOWS keep marketing themselves with KNIVES like WOL
CRACKED.COM WHEN I GO OUT BFOR A MEAL... EMICKEN CLEGS ERISO CHOKES HOG Chicl BAR PIT D FATCDW CUCie BBO FOLLONIRO ..THE LAST THING I WANT TO SEE IS A
Why do brands use bland, fortune cookie-type hashtags? #DontCrackUnderPressure #FOLLOWYOURSPIRIT Why don't they use the product's name instead? Using
Why THE HELL do advertisers think that looking at PERFECT BODIES will make me want to buy their clothes? It just ANNOYS ME and the other 98.8% of huma
Guys, you don't have to call it those days... Stafree MAXI e..we all know what a period is. CRACKED COM
SMELL LIKE A MAN, MAN. Old Spice Jadore Dior WHY DO ALL PERFUME ADS HAVE TO LOOK LIKE A PSYCHEDELIC TRIP??? Purr Katy perry ACQUAdiGOA Lw erpeol jon c
CRAGKEDCON SOME THEN PRODUCT ...For Him ...For Her NOW ASSIGNING GENDERS TO NEUTRAL PRODUCTS IS UNNECESSARY AT BEST & OFFENSIVE AT WORST.
27 Idiotic Advertising Techniques That Need To Go Away
Why are yOU 1 BANDWAGON telling me PRODUCT to be ought as the same else? everyone Others buying your product doesn't make me want it more. CRACKED.COM
have never understood why companies hijack social movements to push their products. They seem to do it to try to appear relevant, but it actually make
Ask your if doctor drug our is right for you. My doctor already knows about your drug and is doing what's best for me. Your commercial is a waste of t
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Unless your business is modeling, I don't understand the advertising practice of putting over-sized photos of yourself on buildings, billboards, and b
ORAGKEDa CON Young rail thin women advertising shapewear I somehow think they are missing (and pissing off) their target audience here.
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CRACKEDCO I never got why companies think we don't see through their OF 10 9 OUT RECOMMEND... DENTISTS nonsensical statistics in ads.
DUDE! Why are you SCREAMING at ME? V END Anuthingy Trury .CBYCUTU GWASL2 DLE oat STAIN REMOVER FREE 38 /1 That does not make me want to buy your shit!
I started taking Pill X two months ago, and now I can deflect bullets with my arms! -Susan from Texas- Testimonials serve no purpose if there is no wa
Very few people in the real world want to be part of a FOCUS GROUP. So why would anyone choose a car based on a PRETEND focus group? Plus, ads like th
CRACKEDOON COMMERCIALS THAT CLAIM YOU'LL GET A DISCOUNT OR BONUS BUT ONLY IF YOU CALL IN THE NEXT HOUR (EVEN THOUGH THE AD IS ON ALL THROUGHOUT THE DA
GRACKEDCOM SPYRIM MOBILE Mobile game companies that advertise their games with gameplay videos from other games are basically asking to be sued.
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YOU SHOULDN'T NEED TO SHOW PEOPLE GOING OUT OF THEIR WAY TO FAIL AT BASIC TASKS TO EFFECTIVELY SELL YOUR PRODUCT.
I actually prefer food that DOESN'T get all over the place to be in my face.
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