2017 was the year of some iconic Ad fails. Yet as we move further along into 2018, it’s almost as if brands are fighting for last place. It’s apparent not everyone learned from the lessons of advertising failures that preceded them.
Not all brand fails are created equally. Some might be as simple as a Photoshop oversight that adds a limb or two, to A-list celebrities, but others are less forgiving. Recently, Snapchat and Heineken played with fire and got burned.
In Heineken's four minute and twenty five second #OpenYourWorld campaign ad video, they take everything Pepsi did and turn it on its head. Before we get too deep, and if you’re not sure what we’re talking about when we mention Pepsi, let's rewind a bit. A few weeks ago, we wrote a blog about Pepsi's absolute crash and burn of an ad, starring Kendall Jenner and a whole slew of critically indecorous notions. To quote our own blog:
