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Marketing Fails IV: The Fail and the Furious
Last year, the MC team let me have a run at our lovely blog to talk about how sometimes, despite the best intentions of the teams behind campaigns, ads fall flat on their faces. Sometimes they are irrelevant, sometimes they just fizzle off, and sometimes they fail so spectacularly, you can’t help but wonder what…
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Our Top 5 Favorite Christmas Ads from Around the World – 2017
Last year, I wrapped up my first year on the Martin blog by taking a break from making fun of bad ads to highlight some of my favorite Christmas ads from the year. The winner for me, and still one of my favorite Christmas ads of all time was Allegro’s English. This year, as I…
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Marketing Fails VII: Dawn of the Rise of the Planet of the Fails
[Intense trailer guy voice] In a world… Where everyone and everything is scrutinized under the magnifying glass of the internet… One man will lead a marketing agency team to the brink of the failspace… All to bring entertainment and joy to the readers of a blog. This is that man. This is his story. We’re…
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3 Marketing Fails: Socially Inept
Social media is a fickle friend. One day, it can be the boon of your brand, and the next, it’s bust. This is the internet. Everything is forever, and once you blast your message out there, you lose all control over it. Sure, you can pull a Tweet or edit a Facebook post, but you…
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Our Top 5 Holiday Ads for 2016
The past few times I visited the Martin Communications blog, I encouraged all of you lovely readers to join me in gently poking fun at Scott Hoy and other bad ads, so that together, we could learn from their mistakes. As we wrap the year up, however, I wanted to do something a little different.
