Dec 16, 2015

The 10 most cringeworthy brand fails of 2015


Nazi symbols on subway cars, creepy jokes about date rape, QR codes leading to porn sites.


Brands blundered, offended and groveled their way through another banner year for facepalm-worthy marketing fails in 2015


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Transgressions ranged from tone-deaf failures to read the room to abject misogyny or sexism to errors so embarrassing that they can only be explained by a complete lapse in common sense


The brand outrage cycle has become so commonplace that it’s something of a ritual process at this point: Brand does something boneheaded or offensive, social media reacts with outrage or mockery, brand pulls the offending item and apologizes, life goes on. …


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The 10 most cringeworthy brand fails of 2015

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