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Cards Against Humanity’s fake Super Bowl ad was actually a brilliant marketing stunt

Feb06
by on February 6, 2017 at 1:39 pm
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Today, the self-proclaimed ‘party game for horrible people’ Cards Against Humanity announced on its blog that it has gone out of business after purchasing a very expensive, but painfully unsuccessful ad for this year’s Super Bowl. The commercial, which featured a potato with the label ‘ADVERTISEMENT’ written on it, was a 30-second video with no music, no action and no message. But while this might seem like a formula for failure, there was something utterly hilarious and brilliant about the campaign. None of it was actually true. Instead of really buying an astronomically pricey ad spot for the Super Bowl, Cards Against Humanity…

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a couple of laughzillas on a blue diamond background

Cards Against Humanity’s fake Super Bowl ad was actually a brilliant marketing stunt

Feb06
by on February 6, 2017 at 1:39 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Shareables


Today, the self-proclaimed ‘party game for horrible people’ Cards Against Humanity announced on its blog that it has gone out of business after purchasing a very expensive, but painfully unsuccessful ad for this year’s Super Bowl. The commercial, which featured a potato with the label ‘ADVERTISEMENT’ written on it, was a 30-second video with no music, no action and no message. But while this might seem like a formula for failure, there was something utterly hilarious and brilliant about the campaign. None of it was actually true. Instead of really buying an astronomically pricey ad spot for the Super Bowl, Cards Against Humanity…

This story continues at The Next Web

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