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The Spin: Marketing boo-boos immortalised on products and packaging

Every month, The Spin maintains an account of mishaps in the world of communications. Here are some we noticed in March 2025.

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March was a fun one: while The Spin normally comes across several mishaps in the media sphere, this month was characterised by several submissions we received of marketing mistakes immortalised on products and packaging.
We begin with the OnePlus Watch 3. For those of us who love our watches, the face offers an attractive display, a stainless-steel case with titanium bezel, dual-frequency GPS and built-in health monitoring systems.

However, before we get overly excited, the release date reportedly has been delayed to April due to an unfortunate typo on the back panel – which many a trained eye in global media outlets have had a field day with.
Another one on a pizza box raises questions, too.


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the authorAnup Oommen
Anup Oommen is the Editor of Campaign Middle East at Motivate Media Group, a well-reputed moderator, and a multiple award-winning journalist with more than 15 years of experience at some of the most reputable and credible global news organisations, including Reuters, CNN, and Motivate Media Group. As the Editor of Campaign Middle East, Anup heads market-leading coverage of advertising, media, marketing, PR, events and experiential, digital, the wider creative industries, and more, through the brand’s digital, print, events, directories, podcast and video verticals. As such he’s a key stakeholder in the Campaign Global brand, the world’s leading authority for the advertising, marketing and media industries, which was first published in the UK in 1968.