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Top 10 Unintentionally Creepy TV Ads

January 31st, 2009 @ 4:00 am

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Categories: General, Humor, Marketing, Video, Watercooler, Weekend

Tags: Advertisement, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Geoffrey James

One of my posts this week (”How Branding Can Kill Your Profit“) surfaced some interesting arguments about the value of branding (in general) and advertising (in particular).

Relative to this, I’ve often thought that ad agency people are slightly out of their minds, so I thought I’d post some videos to prove it.

The following pages contain the ten most creepy television ads I’ve ever seen, all the more creepy because the ad agency apparently wasn’t aware how creepy the ads actually were.

By the way, for this post, I’ve added a poll to each video, so that you can vote on how creepy you think it is.

Get ready to feel hairs on the back of your head stand up…

Click here for the first unintentionally creepy TV ad ยป

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    ptiseo

    02/02/09 | Report as spam

    RE: Top 10 Unintentionally Creepy TV Ads

    Tell you what, my young daughter would die for that robot cat. My wife has bad cat allergies and it is unfortunately her favorite animal.

    Also, as long as they know its a toy, why would they need therapy?

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    Cheryl Wolhar

    02/02/09 | Report as spam

    RE: Top 10 Unintentionally Creepy TV Ads

    LOL... stepford cats...

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    NaniMadrina

    02/03/09 | Report as spam

    RE: Top 10 Unintentionally Creepy TV Ads

    Bizarre. They should have the robot suncreen girl petting the robot cat....

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