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“ The success of a product can be weirdly predicted by its affinity to a particular group of people who are drawn to failure. If they like it, it’s probably not going to survive. ”
“ A montage of 50-year-old cigarette television commercials. ”
“ No brand appearance is accidental. Here’s how it works. ”
“ The psychological operations unit in the US Army produced their own recruiting video which explains what they do in a very unexpected style. ”
“ Less than 10% of plastic is actually recycled. We’ve been told otherwise by companies who produce plastic to alleviate our guilt at buying it. ”
“ In San Francisco, there’s a billboard ad from 1993 that’s occasionally revealed. People have started taking pictures of it on the rare times it’s visible. ”
“ If you think Kirkland products are high quality, that’s because they are literally the best on the market, by design. ”
“ In the early 2000s, gaming companies portrayed bullying as a feature of their platforms to be celebrated. ”
“ A look at how toy companies got around laws limiting child advertising by creating cartoons for toys, so that the toys promoted the cartoons, which in turn promoted the toys, and kids couldn’t really tell the difference. ”
“ In 1991, the CEO of a British jewelry company made some jokes about the quality of his company’s product and effectively destroyed it and his own personal net worth. ”
“ Winning an Oscar often comes down to very shrewd awards marketing by film studios. ”
“ A promotional video for the first version of Adobe Acrobat in 1993. It details the work processes of a fictional office that will seem familiar to a lot of who were working in the 90s. ”
“ A specific shade of greenish-brown has been deemed ‘the ugliest color in the world,’ and is specifically used for cigarette packaging in many countries. ”
“ In the early 1990s. Pepsi accidentally created a contest where a million people were grand prize winners, and Pepsi couldn’t pay the total prize money owed. ”
“ An Asian restaurant in Montreal has achieved some notoriety for its menu, which warns customers that some dishes just aren’t very good. ”
“ The largest city in Brazil banned all outdoor advertising in 2006. ”
“ There are some fascinating aspects to being a hand model. One of which is that you pretend to be other people’s hands a lot. ”
“ A man tried to cash in 7 million Pepsi Points for the harrier jet that a TV commercial jokingly offered. Pepsi refused, so he took them to court. The court had to explain, in legal terms, why the joke was meant to be funny. ”
“ Birkin bags sell for figures on the low end, up to $500,000 on the top end. Why this is so is a perfect example of exclusivity and branding. ”
