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Oh dear...
The problems of online media placement.
Wonder if Toyota ever knew about this?
There was also a great example of the annoying Mitchell and Webb "I'm a Mac" ads running next to Charlie Brooker's enormous anti-mac rant which was quite amusing
If you've seen any other dreadful online media placements pass them along!
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Contextual advertising that trawls keywords on a page to serve up relevant text ads can sometimes be interesting (an example someone once gave me was an ad for Samsonite suitcases next to 'Man's body found in a suitcase' news story) though to be fair, they are getting better at it. Congrats on the new job, by the way. Happened to read about it this morning.
Posted by: neilperkin | Monday, 19 February 2007 at 12:02 PM
Julia emailed me to say that her favourite example was a news story of a high school shooting with a Classmates (the US Friends Reunited) banner up top
Posted by: Amelia | Sunday, 25 February 2007 at 11:08 AM
This is really bad luck for Toyota - what's funny is that the guy in the ad seems to incriminate himself/the brand. Really funny.
I'll call you "Eagle eye planner" for spotting it! :)
Posted by: Stefan Stroe | Monday, 26 February 2007 at 09:39 PM