We have heard over and over again about the importance of a good and well targeted advertisement, but rarely do we hear the case for a ridiculously bad ad.
We like to say in the blogosphere that it is great to be loved and it is great to be hated. As long as you can incite a passionate reaction from an audience, you are doing something right. The same works for advertisements. Take a look at the following ad that was submitted to YouTube and was subsequently submitted to Reddit and received 531 votes and illicited over a hundred comments, and almost 180,000 views at the time I wrote this post.
Heck by the end of the commercial even I was singing about Flea Market, Montgomery.
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Wow. A-W-F-U-L. His eyes made me shudder.
Markus is right though, and it’s the same with any “controversy”. Although I don’t know how much branding I’d want as a “mini mall”…
Yeah – but it’s just like a mini-mall…..
I wish we had hysterical commercials like that up here. Instead we have horrifyingly annoying Menards commercials.
That song is stuck in my head. Damn them. Did anyone notice that it was a 2 minute commercial? Effective.