Freezing Heat. Dumb Ads.
Humor, Marketing / PR October 24th, 2008
Screenshot from Yahoo Weather this morning:
We’re expecting heat today, and Yahoo (weather.com) placed a snowy pic, offering all sorts of winterizing services along with my forecast.  I guess it did not notice the weather display was in Celsius, and 31C is about 88F.
For more advertising blunders see:
- The Irony of Contextual Advertising
- Contextual Advertising Blunders
- The Scary Thing about Contextual (?) Advertising
- From The Ad Targeting At Its Finest Department
Tags: adbrite, adsense, advertising, Adwords, contextual advertising
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