I actually saw this a few weeks back and felt I should document it, and then it got forgotten about.
Have a look at these beauties. Presumably they were ‘targeted’ at me on the basis that I’m a male human being, or something.
The ad:
(incidentally, how many people do you think click on the ‘more ads’ link?)
The page it takes you to:
Ads themselves are uploaded to http://www.doritos.co.uk/. There have been 115 so far. None of the ones I looked at was anything better than hideously embarrassing. Here’s one at random:
And now they’re going to have to put one on TV. What on earth do they think they’re doing. Surely this is a great example of a traditional TV ad agency showing absolutely no imagination or understanding about what social media does: ‘we can’t make a TV advert? Can the facebook people?’.
