South Korea’s LG has debuted an ad that is so bad that is has to be yet another an attempt at viral marketing.
The fact that you see it here means that it worked. Congrats, Lucky Goldstar!
The “ad” is for LG’s “G Flex” phone that comes with an average quality screen (6″, 1280 x 720) whose claim to fame besides being too big to fit in your pocket our use with one hand is a gimmicky slight curve. The phone also features a “self-healing” resin back that, well, heals itself after scratches. Interesting, but still rather plasticky. The pristine build quality of Apple’s iPhone 5s blows it away, as it does every other iPhone wannabes and knockoff on the market.
Direct link to video here.
MacDailyNews Take: LG phones. For the hairy palm set.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews readers too numerous to mention individually for the heads up.]
I know what that wanker will be doing with his hairy palm after he leaves the restaurant…
I know. An ad that shows his GF mouth on his palm seriously blows. It just sucks as a metaphor for the phone. In fact his hand is not even formed to cup it (phone)’properly. It will slip in and out of his hands during use, fall and splatter on the floor.
Umm… Is this where I say, “That’s what she said”?
lol, yes it’s bad, but so bad it’s good. I laughed.
No, there’s also ‘trying too hard to be “so bad it’s good”‘ as well.
This falls into this category nicely, and that makes it a fail.
Korea, I like the Gangnam thing, but your cars are still plastic wannabes and so are your phones.
See, there’s this little item called ‘taste’, and you ain’t got it.
Korean cars are “Bic’s” because they are disposable.
And you can “flick” them…
So pathetic.
WOW, thats disgusting in so many levels!!!
But I don’t think that is as bad for the company as the samsung ad where they criticize their own products )talking how bad their samsung computer is), misogynistic (they make look woman like they belong to the kitchen)
look:
Or, does anything even come close for the title of “worst tech ad ever” as this M$ ad campaign for Windows 7?
OK, during the main part of the commercial, I was curiously occupied, similar to passing slowly by a car accident. But, then they cut to the scene of the dude making out with his hand, and curiosity changed to horror and disgust, similar to suddenly noticing the decapitated body in the driver’s seat as you passed the car accident.
Judas Priest, that was horrible.
And the dude’s hand has crabs! What’s up with that? Nutso!
Of course they had to associate crabs with that hairy crotch shot palm. No offense, ecrabb. And I agree, that last part kind of wrecked the quirkiness.
Soooo…, their metaphor for this phone is a talking vagina with crabs?? I don’t get it….
ew.
The hairy palm has a remarkable resemblance to judge Cote.. Don’t you think?
Holding someone’s ear next to yours and talking into their mouth is completely backwards. I guess they did it though for aesthetics or something. This ad must be a joke or something. What a complete fail.
the ad business can be brutal:
WHAT? THE? F?
WTF?????
I couldn’t make it even half-way through. Unwatchable. That’s really bad marketing. Someone’s dead in a dumpster over that defecation in public.
Brilliant! Will it shapeshift my hand into Joanna Krupa’s head? – daddy wants.
Dear fellow Americans, please refrain from commenting on this as it is clearly not for us. German dressed as a Mexican singing to some Brits with hairy palms, reading Koran scripts– this is beyond our understanding. Let them alone to explore this bizarre fantasy, please. Go back to your labs and continue inventing spaceships and lasers and computing devices and energy sources and weapons to protect them, while they indulge in their silliness. Our lives are more important to the survival of our species.