When a fitness ad is placed right next to an escalator, or a fast-food billboard about crispy chicken appears in front of a cemetery, the sheer irony can make even the most stoic person crack a smile. That’s the magic of bad — or brilliant — ad placement. It really just depends on which lens you’re looking through. Since we all need a good laugh now and then, watching multi-million dollar companies accidentally turn their expensive marketing campaigns into jokes is quite entertaining. Here are some of the funniest mistakes ad companies ever made.
Ads That Became Funny Because of Their Unbelievably Poor Placement
When a fitness ad is placed right next to an escalator, or a fast-food billboard about crispy chicken appears in front of a cemetery, the sheer irony can make even the most stoic person crack a smile. That’s the magic of bad — or brilliant — ad placement. It really just depends on which lens you’re looking through. Since we all need a good laugh now and then, watching multi-million dollar companies accidentally turn their expensive marketing campaigns into jokes is quite entertaining. Here are some of the funniest mistakes ad companies ever made.











