In our day to day life we are bombarded with advertisements. Whether you are watching your favorite TV program or simply updating your Facebook status you are bound to come across an advert demanding your attention. Adverts tell us what phone to use, what brand to wear, what pen to write with...the list goes on. This is because in business advertising play an important an important role, because they do not only sell products or services but also help in increasing sales.
Adverts can be very creative but there are adverts, however, that leave us stretching our heads in wonder or even worse anger. Brands have to be very careful when advertising because with the growing use of social media it is very easy for individuals who hate the brand to fake adverts using the brands name, these adverts can be very cruel and simply unacceptable.
Here are some of the unacceptable fake adverts that caught my attention
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This advert uses UHU super glue's tag line holds for life to mock the Abigail and Brittany Hensel twins who share a body.
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Mocks the Catholic in their awareness campaign against child abuse.
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This was after the horse meat scandal
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Against KFC saying the sell halal food
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Advert created when singer Chris Brown assault his girlfriend Rihanna.
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This Neil Armstrong fake advert was published after he conversed to cheating
8. and then there were a couple of Oscar Pistorius adverts
Do you see how these adverts can make the life of a PRP hard? What do you think of them? Do you know any other fake advert? Join the conversation and let me know what you think by commenting.
Yoh I found some hilarious and some unacceptable. I guess companies have to do , what they have to do to get their audiences attention.
ReplyDeletefake adverts can be a nightmare for organisations
DeleteSome brands use adverting in a wrong way just for them to get the publicity they need which I find it wrong.
ReplyDeletefake adverts can be bad for the organisations reputation
DeleteI agree with you.
ReplyDeleteSome are hilarious and some are offensive, but among the hilarious ones there are ethical rules to consider and think of people's emotions.
ReplyDeleteI agree with you that is why fake ads can be a PR nightmare
DeleteI agree with Toka, they are funny and maybe the humour will make the organisation to be recognised lol
ReplyDeletelol maybe it will Charmaine
DeleteIts good for the organisation because when ever people hear the organisations name they will think of the ad everytime
DeleteWow, this is very interesting, i didn't know that peiople would go to the extreme and create such adverts, yes they are very offensive especially to people with such disabilities (hold for life) and the kfc halal advert.
ReplyDeletevery offensive indeed Palesa and a night for PR
ReplyDeleteI personally think that adverts are supposed do be done creatively so that is what the ads above cotain.
ReplyDeleteI personally think the advertisers of all these adverts over did it.
ReplyDeleteadvertisements are meant to persuade the public i dont see anything wrong with faking an advert to pursuade the public as long as it is offesive to the public like most people say ''fake it till you make it
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