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Worst Advertising Placement Fails (PICTURES)

Worst Advertising Placement Fails (PICTURES)
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An important rule of advertising: where an ad appears is just as important as what it says. Seems simple enough, but few ads (online ads at least) enjoy the luxury of being placed by a real person. In many cases, where an ad appears is determined by an automatic placement system, which allows it to pop up anywhere on a site. Often, this puts advertisers and websites in some very awkward situations.

In celebration of automatic ad placement services and the failures they produce, we looked around for some of the worst ad placements. And we found some old-fashioned TV and billboard fails, too (even sadder). Check out our favorites below:

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Time for a new ad team(01 of19)
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(via Useless Humor) (credit:This is garbage)
What can brown do for you?(02 of19)
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(via Gearfuse)
Also a Net Nanny fail(03 of19)
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(via Fat Kid Camp)
For visual learners(04 of19)
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(via College Humor)
Searching for answers(05 of19)
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(via Nerdvana)
Old-school print fail(06 of19)
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(via Fail Blog)
"We don't do background checks"(07 of19)
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(via Fail Blog)
Look out behind you!(08 of19)
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(via Fail Blog)
Father's day fail(09 of19)
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(via Joey DeVilla)
What a mess(10 of19)
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(via Useless Humor)
Cross-promotion(11 of19)
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(via iO9)
For auditory learners(12 of19)
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(via Useless Humor)
How did this happen??(13 of19)
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(via Advertising Is Good For You)
The consumer response you requested was not found(14 of19)
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(via jkenning)
The ghost of Gilbert Gottfried(15 of19)
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(via BuzzFeed)
Straight ahead!(16 of19)
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(via Paul's Health Blog)
Funemployment(17 of19)
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(via Money & Sh*t)
McMuffin before the egg(18 of19)
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(via Fail Blog)
All the way from Russia(19 of19)
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(via Sanjeev.net)

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