Media PR blunders

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Oh wow :lol:

But really, how did they possibly miss that? You'd have thought that the product name would have been said aloud at least once. Then again, it's a German company - maybe the language barrier is the problem.
 
Yes Germans are a bit backward when it comes to things like this...my buddy works for this company...

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Looks a lot like:



But that has a built in speaker that slides out which is nice.

There's also one without the speaker and is even more like the one above, also very slim, but I dunno what it's called.


EDIT: Frankly, the non-speaker version looks a lot better than the one posted in the first post.
 
At my old job, semi's would always be shipping stuff back and forth with the companies name- A. Duie Pyle in big letters on the side of the trucks. Maybe I have the humor of a 3rd grader, but I laughed.
 
The name is just absurd and the product is just awful. I mean whats up with the "i" there and they think "beat blaxx" is a cool name for "beat box"...NOT!!!! As for me, i rather listen to music on my Ngage any day :)
 
When I first saw this thread title, I thought it was going to be about this:

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A Peruvian initiative to thank countries and international agencies for aid it received in last week's devastating earthquake has turned sour.One thousand specially produced bottles of Peru's famous alcoholic drink, Pisco, have had to be withdrawn amid claims of bad taste.The bottles were labelled "Pisco 7.9", the magnitude of the earthquake which killed about 500 people. The city of Pisco, which bears the name of the drink, was especially hard hit. But adding to the label the numbers 7.9 - the magnitude of the earthquake according to Peru's Geophysical Institute - has left a nasty aftertaste.
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:sick:

Perhaps my favourite PR blunder, however, concerned a company a close friend used to work for. He used to be a civil engineer for a large company called Montgomery Watson, and he attended the launch of a new division of the business, Montgomery Watson Project Management. They all got PR kits, including business cards which helpfully pointed people in the direction of their shiny new corporate website. Unfortunately, they got the URL slightly wrong, and instead of www.mwpm.co.uk, they had www.mwpm . com instead (spaces added to disable link!!). It lead to a gay porn website called "Men Who Prefer Men" :D They have since changed their URL to something completely different...
 
Touring Mars
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Perhaps my favourite PR blunder, however, concerned a company a close friend used to work for. He used to be a civil engineer for a large company called Montgomery Watson, and he attended the launch of a new division of the business, Montgomery Watson Project Management. They all got PR kits, including business cards which helpfully pointed people in the direction of their shiny new corporate website. Unfortunately, they got the URL slightly wrong, and instead of www.mwpm.co.uk, they had www.mwpm . com instead (spaces added to disable link!!). It lead to a gay porn website called "Men Who Prefer Men" :D They have since changed their URL to something completely different...
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:lol:
 
Took me a while to work it out, but yes, I can't imagine many TV reviewers saying it loud.

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The name is just absurd and the product is just awful. I mean whats up with the "i" there and they think "beat blaxx" is a cool name for "beat box"...NOT!!!! As for me, i rather listen to music on my Ngage any day :)
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Ngage? What a brick that thing was. Also loved the way you had to hold it to your ear when you spoke on it :lol:
 
Well what wrong with an Ngage? I mean i got the QD model, so it wasn't that bad isn't it? Well its not for everybody i guess, but i could do more things on my phone that some people just can't on their phones....(or not)
 
ExigeExcel
Took me a while to work it out, but yes, I can't imagine many TV reviewers saying it loud.
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Maybe in the deep American south where they still fly Confederate flags and yell out slogans like "the south will rise again" at the Klan meetings.
 
There's an environmental science contractor in town here called Analtech. Obviously that's a case of not seeing the forest for the trees.
 
I used to work for a company who made heaters for ceramic glass-top range cookers. For fun, I made up a slogan while I was a product designer: "Hotter than the hobs of hell."

There should be an interesting end to this story, but there isn't. Let's just say the sales and marketing department didn't take it too seriously.
 
I had a hot/cold tumbler with a slogan next to the logo: Sweda: The name you can't rust!

Unfortunately, the words had nearly no spacing between them: THENAMEYOUCAN'TRUST!
 
We were selling "Environmentally friendly" Charcoal untill recentley in work.

We've now got a half ton of charcoal sitting in the warehouse waiting to be thrown away, the replacement charcoal is just from well managed forests.
 
I remember having a good laugh with my sister when I was in Hong Kong. We stumbled across a mobile by a company called "Shyte".. Probably made in China, you can guess what we were calling that phone for the rest of our time there. Not exactly a PR blunder, but a blunder none the less.

I'll get her to send me the picture we took of the phone and then edit this post with it.

Pyrelli
 
Pupik
I had a hot/cold tumbler with a slogan next to the logo: Sweda: The name you can't rust!

Unfortunately, the words had nearly no spacing between them: THENAMEYOUCAN'TRUST!
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Why is that bad?
It's easily read The Name You Can 'Trust!
So the slogan is actually good
 
Touring Mars
Unfortunately, they got the URL slightly wrong, and instead of www.mwpm.co.uk, they had www.mwpm . com instead (spaces added to disable link!!). It lead to a gay porn website called "Men Who Prefer Men" :D They have since changed their URL to something completely different...
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A colleague of mine told me a while ago he is involved in a Scouting group. During this converstion he mentioned their website www.hyg.nl
Unfortunately the abbreviation hyg and verb hijg (to pant) are pronounced exactly the same. So whilst still in the office (and others around too) I proceeded to type in the url as I thought it was supposed to be spelled.

Suffice to say I quickly closed my browser :O

AMG.
 

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