Things real people don’t say about advertising (23 photos)

Thinking it's time for another 'Hot Redheads' post around here.

Hook it up, Chive!

Yes.. we need MOAR of her!

IM working for an hour the rage
Iwent to highschool didnt do great
but i gotta get for cash
an education is what im looking at, when i find a degree i can mad a biggery sa la ry
but still ive got to seee WHICH COLLGEGE is right for me
i went on the internet and found education con nec tion….i see that commercial too many times

I work for an online company whose main source of revenue is sponsored ads, and this list made me LOL hard because I can, like, relate, man.

Perhaps they're trying to be relevant following the change to the site's layout? e.g. #17

Agreed, except that it's the exact opposite… one of the funniest posts I've seen so far this year!

What ? No way!

"only to recover a fraction of that expense"

stay in school bob. Advertising works, if there was no gain for the companies to put their name out there, they wouldnt do it.

'only to recover a fraction of that expense' ?

they massively recover their expenses, why else would they do it.
A company's goal is making money, if one of their actions doesn't make money they won't take that action anymore. The fact that you see ads everywhere shows that this is a viable strategy for them that allows them to make more money.
Only a small % of the people that see ads have to react on them to let the company recover it's money. And people don't even have to react directly by buying the product immediately, as long as they remember the product there is an increased chance those people will buy the product.

It may be lame efforts to get our money, but they know it WILL get our money eventually :p

It's funny because no one would think these things consciously, and yet every single one of them works.

TLDR: It's funny because it's true.

Sorry to have to explain the joke to you.

Sounds to me like your marketing doesn't have a positive ROI. Read "Your Marketing Sucks" by Mark Stevens and that may change.

and no matter what anybody says about this post just this one Kleenex photo made my day

I wonder how many people will now visit the Kleenex website, just out of curiosity. (Not me.)

A designer!! REALLY?!

Except these posts are about marketing, and we all know designers didn't go to business school. Nice try!

Waaa, If you try hard enough, I'll bet you can find another side with some boobs on it

. . . what the fuck was that supposed to be?
I appreciate the useless, pathetic comment (heh, because you think your opinion will somehow sway the millions who browse the Chive (and you used too many parentheses and not enough punctuation elsewhere))
But seriously, that was . . . a sad comment.