The 10 Weirdest Ad Stories of the Month
Ads on funeral urns! Donny Deutsch gets canceled! Google ads are blind to porn! It all happened in April 2010.
- Cancer patient with months to live sells ad space on his urn. Slight problem with the audience: bad demos, low reach.
- Hispanic ad agency offers 'gringo masks' to AZ immigrants It's a protest against that state's new ID policy.
- In a bathroom in JWT in Belgium, there's a secret room ... Filled with little people who spy on you. Totally weird.
- Up to 29 percent of web ad clicks are fraudulent So that's who clicks on banners!
- Romance is not dead: the Taster's Choice couple will return Just not in the U.S.
- Donny Deutsch's TV show pulled after 2 episodes Keith Olbermann gave it a bad review.
- Has News Corp. somehow committed massive ratings fraud? This conspiracy theorist thinks so.
- Men will do anything except buy tampons Another chapter in JWT's social-commentary-oriented Kotex campaign.
- Are your Google ads unwittingly appearing on porn sites? Google (GOOG) can't read explicit images, which is why ads for lawyers pop up in the wrong places.
- Nothing like a lethal gas execution to sell a product Ogilvy's ad for an Asian breath freshener is unrelentingly grim.
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