Stephen Crooks Experience Economy Blog » Worst Ads of All Time http://www.stephencrooks.com/blog Building Better Brand Experiences Fri, 16 Jul 2010 03:20:54 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 en hourly 1 Microsoft ad Fakery http://www.stephencrooks.com/blog/2009/04/03/microsoft-ad-fakery/ http://www.stephencrooks.com/blog/2009/04/03/microsoft-ad-fakery/#comments Sat, 04 Apr 2009 01:48:20 +0000 Stephen Crooks http://stephencrooks.com/blog/?p=24

This is great. Microsoft in their never ending obsession with Apple created an Ad where they found people on Craigslist to “purchase” a computer under $1,000 – a price point below anything Apple offers. So they got these people on camera to run around and show how much variety of PC products there [...]]]>

This is great. Microsoft in their never ending obsession with Apple created an Ad where they found people on Craigslist to “purchase” a computer under $1,000 – a price point below anything Apple offers. So they got these people on camera to run around and show how much variety of PC products there are – and all the great features offered.

One problem with the ads – they’ve been faked – these so called real people may not be as real as Microsoft would like us to believe. Eagle eyed bloggers have noticed that in this segment the woman never even enters the Apple store where she claims they had nothing to offer.

Enough to enter this commercial into the Hall of Shame.

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This is so bad, you can’t stop watching it.

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This is so bad, you can’t stop watching it.

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