Marketing and advertising can definitely get annoying sometimes.
But there are times when smart marketing gurus put their minds together and come up with sneaky ways to get their message across. Especially when they either take you by surprise or get you to buy the product without even knowing you were being targeted.
Now that's clever marketing.
Talk about clever advertising here, this bag of coffee is being marketed as a prescription medicine because, let's be honest, for some of us coffee is medicine.
Apparently, This is how they dress up mangos in Shenzhen, China. Because everyone wants to eat a happy mango instead of a sad one, right?
A book store where books are wrapped in paper with short descriptions so no one will "judge a book by its cover".
I love it when companies get straight to the point and lay it all on the line. Instead of looking for ingredients, you get this.
Talk about an interesting way to take advantage of placing your business in the vicinity of an existing one. Ironic or clever? What do you think?
So, I dunno if this was a printing error or done on purpose, but that's one way of getting people to get their eyes checked.
It doesn't take a genius to know that gamers play games for hours, so they definitely need some fuel. But this product placement is pretty genius.
Everyone knows that the best way to get someone to buy something is to get them to try it, so this water system got it right.
The most compassionate recycling reminder on a smoothie. I just hope people take time to read it and do what it says.
You have to give it to these guys. They aren't exactly beating around the bush by placing this ad right in the urinal in the men's restroom.
This marketing campaign from a grocery store in Belgium just started. They use the existing billboards from a politician and add their own billboard onto it. Wow!
Child's Play and Toy Story 4 were released on the same day so the designer of the Child's Play poster decided to playfully attack Woody in their poster.
These billboards have a 3D cheese string connecting them. Mmmmm... cheese.
This billboard for Coke also points people to the nearest recycling bin. I love this!
This simple beer ad makes the foam from a pint look like a moon. Brilliant!
Jelly Belly packages all their "irregular" jelly beans into a bag and sells them as "Belly Flops". At the end of the day, they're still sugar, right?
These jars are essentially the same spread but highlight different ingredients. Sneaky, sneaky.
These packages fit together nicely so that store clerks can fit more on a shelf. More product means more sales, right?
This company includes a picture and a link to the story about the person who picked your food. What a cool idea!
This company has two different versions of their package: one featuring a mom with tattoos and one without tattoos. There's a box for every mom!
This whale is spreading an important message about climate change. It's certainly eye-catching.
These bottles of Ibuprophen are clearly targeting those people who either buy Advil or Motrin with the colors of those products' bottles. Pretty clever.
Probably the most clever and funniest condom advertising I've seen in a while. Ha, ha, ha. You must listen to Darth Vader.
I wish they were all like that, actually.
