
There needs to be independent evidence, such as actual professional pannings or news articles, to list it.
An advertisement isn't bad because Saberspark, The Nostalgia Critic, or any other Caustic Critic reviewed it. The ad must be horrible even by the intended goals of an advertisement to qualify. Also, an ad is not horrible because the product is shown honestly and is not to the audience's tastes note Exceptions may be made if the product's premise was so bad as to prevent it from ever being released. A competent ad can sell a bad product or controversial idea, even if they must lie or generate controversy to do so. This page is specifically about horrible advertisements, not cases where the advertised product is horrible, which should be taken to its respective subpage. It has to fail to appeal even to that niche to qualify as this. Hard as it is to imagine at times, there is a market for all types of deviancy (no matter how small a niche it is). Merely being offensive in its subject matter is not enough to justify a work as Horrible. British website Ad Turds was set up for just this sort of thing - exposing, ridiculing, and stomping on this sort of advertising. For otherwise-decent ads that had one horrid messup, see the Dethroning Moment page. This is the bottom of the barrel for commercialism.įor a different variety of really bad advertising, see What Were They Selling Again?.
But, why buy certain products if their ads are so bad, they're horrible? These advertisements are so bad that they even drove the people who liked the product in the first place away. and naturally, consumers will fall over and buy what's being promoted. Advertisements litter every television, newspaper, and website they can find.