When Mass Media Buying Goes Wrong

Spotted this ad for spread betting on the way home from seeing my chum Mississippi MacDonald playing a set over at the Electroacoustic Club at The Slaughtered Lamb. Long copy ads at cross-track locations usually work well - people have time to read and generally do if they are interested. Farringdon is a good location for city types into this kind of thing. It's just a shame that this particular media location was across 2 tracks and the ad was in a minuscule font size.

Nothing Quite Like A Good Typo!

A banner ad for Alliance & Leicester proudly displayed at The Times website today.

How can anyone possibly miss that typo! Maybe one of those crafty compeittors (sic) meddled with the ad.

Simply Moronic No.2

It only gets worse with the linked banner at the oddschecker.com website. Words fail me. What happened to creating a debate in the customers' head? What happened to intrigue, to telling the joke, not shouting "I'm funny"? What happened to crediting your customers with a modicum of intelligence. I want to cry. "You're stupid if you don't check your bets with us." Oh really? Now kindly f*** off.

Simply Moronic

I spotted this on the London Underground. Please can someone tell me why this isn't the most moronic ad I've seen in a long time. What sort of unintelligent life-form produced this and thought it was good?