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Misleadvertising

Exploiting consumer familiarity to move your product

Implications - Sex, violence and celebrities will always be able to move products, which is why brands are exploiting what consumers already are familiar with to coerce consumers to notice their products. Your product doesn't actually need to be related to these no-brainer tactics--it just has to capitalize on them.
Trend Themes
1. Shock Advertising - Corporations are resorting to sexually overt or other shock tactics to recapture the attention of prospective customers.
2. Optical Illusion Promotions - Using optical illusions in outdoor advertising to attract customers and generate buzz.
3. Look-a-likevertising - Using celebrity or celebrity look-a-likes in advertising campaigns to save money on advertising costs while retaining public figure recognition.
Industry Implications
1. Advertising - These trends have direct implications for the advertising industry, changing the way that companies create and deliver their campaigns.
2. Retail - These trends have implications for the retail industry in terms of the way that companies market and sell their products.
3. Fashion - These trends have implications for the fashion industry, specifically the use of shock tactics and look-a-likes in campaigns.
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Featured Examples

Misleading Sexvertisments
Misleading Sexvertisments
Online Game Evony's Ads Deceivingly Imply Sexual Content
The online game Evony (formerly Civony) has slowly changed it’s advertising to blatant sexual misrepresentation.  The images are in the reverse chronological order, degrading to the point that there is… MORE
Optical Illusion Promotions
Optical Illusion Promotions
McDonald's Coffee Heats Up the Advertising World
When I think of McDonald’s (which, sadly, I often do), I don’t think about their coffee. No, I think about their Big Macs, definitely their fries, maybe the McNuggets, and occasionally their Sausage McMuffin.… MORE
Penisvertising
Penisvertising
Tom of Finland Shopping Bag Creates Cheeky Illusion
After using public water pipes as erections to promote their fragrance last year, Tom of Finland has come up with a very cheeky shopping bag to put that fragrance into. Designed by ad agency Ogilvy, France,… MORE
Flamboyant Parenting Ads
Flamboyant Parenting Ads
Sexy Advertisements Bring in Attention to 'Parenting 101'
Parenting has never been so exciting before. Eye-catching ads by Nicole Weiner feature images that were never meant to be paired with parenting. The ads reach out to distressed parents or even people… MORE
Gangsta Ad Campaigns
Gangsta Ad Campaigns
BBDO Advertising Agency Plays Off the Iconic ‘Bloods' Gang Symbol
Germany has its hands full with this risky advertising agency named BBDO from Dusseldorf. This ad was made to recruit people to join the BBDO Düsseldorf agency and it uses a great shock tactic to get the… MORE
Liquid Flower Campaigns
Liquid Flower Campaigns
Boysen Paints Blooms on the Advertising Scene
TrendHunter.com has been seeing a lot of liquefied objects lately and now Boysen Paints has joined the water-based ranks. TBWASantiago Mangada Puno advertising agency created this campaign to emphasize… MORE
First Lady Talismans
First Lady Talismans
The Michelle Obama Beaded Amulet Wards off the Evil Eye and Looks Cool
When inspiring people come along, there is only one thing to do: create a beaded necklace in their honor (check out the Carrot Top one! Just kidding; Carrot Top isn’t inspiring). The Michelle Obama beaded… MORE
Look-a-Likevertising
Look-a-Likevertising
The Tom Ford ‘A Single Man' Editorial Looks like Ed Westwick
For the latest issue of Out, a magazine that caters to gay and lesbian culture, Tom Ford made his directorial debut with the “A Single Man” film. The former designer of Gucci and Yves Saint Laurent… MORE

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