When advertising goes wrong: lessons from past failures

Learn from some common mistakes that marketers make, as a selection of leading figures in the advertising world share their experiences.

WARC celebrates effective advertising and has thousands of case studies showing how brands have done that over the years. And it’s often said that a similar database of mistakes would be equally useful – educating people in the traps to avoid and understanding why some approaches simply don’t work in certain circumstances. But who wants to be associated with failure? Until there’s an equivalent of the Razziesfor advertising, we have to make do with picking over the trade press and the occasional book from a retired practitioner. Or events like that organised by adam&eveDDB as part of IPA...

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