Ep 6 - Peloton’s 2019 Holiday Ad
In late November 2019 Peloton, the in-home exercise bike company, released an ad to spur holiday sales. But by December 6th the backlash from the ad w...
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Every year over $200 billion is spent on advertising in the U.S. alone. Most of these ad campaigns are wildly ignored or missed by the general public, and many of them still accomplish their goal of drumming up business for their respective companies.However, sometimes an ad campaign falls flat, or worse yet, end up costing the company significant amounts of money. In this podcast we explore those marketing mistakes that we’re pretty sure didn’t help the companies they were made for. This is, Terrible Ads
Ep 5 - The Boston Mooninite Panic
On January 31st 2007 Boston residents started noticing strange looking devices on their local train stations and near some bridges. By 9am on that mor...
Ep 4 - American Airlines' Lifetime Pass
In 1981 American Airlines was hurting for money. They had just posted a loss of $76 million the previous year, and were dealing with increased competi...
Ep 1 - Quiznos' Singing Rodents
In 2007 Quiznos’ Subs had over 4,700 locations across the United States. By 2017 that number had shrunk to less than 400 and the company was bankrupt....
Ep 2 - 79 Days of New Coke
In 1985 the Coca-Cola company was losing ground to rival Pepsi. Coke had to do something drastic to win back consumers and in their mind that thing wa...
Ep 3 - Kendall Jenner Pepsi Ad
In April 2017 Pepsi released an ad called “Live For Now” featuring one of the most popular models in the world, Kendall Jenner. The ad was designed to...
Ep 0 - Introducing Terrible Ads
Every year over $200 billion is spent on advertising in the U.S. alone. Most of these ad campaigns are wildly ignored or missed by the general public,...