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. Makes you wonder whether the pizza provided is, indeed, ‘fesh from the oven’, if it states, ‘prefect taste’.
Guess that depends on whether the prefect is Cedric Diggory, Hermione Granger or Percy Weasley.
On another note, here’s how you can probably tell whether the Super Bass headphones you’ve received in gorgeous gift wrapping is authentic or fake. Find out whether its ‘foldadle’ or ‘supprots memory cards’.
For this, you’d probably want to judge the book by its cover.
Having said that, we did come across an original ad for a ‘bear trimmer’, which we’re pretty sure is neither a reference to the animal nor a particularly hairy individual. If it works on either, though, it will make for a pretty great device.
Closer to home, The Spin spotted two unfortunate Ramadan ads.
The first one – and we note that the brand is not to blame – had a beautiful caption on LinkedIn, which the platform’s algorithm translated quite awkwardly.
The second Ramadan ad featured here truly raised eyebrows.
From the grammatically incorrect copy to the creative that fails to align with the timing mentioned, this one’s going into the catalogue of ‘spot the mistakes’ for young creatives.
We close out this edition of The Spin with a clearance sale ad that probably shouldn’t be offering 90 per cent off on a product that forgets to add the term ‘treatment’ after ‘C Difficile Infection’.
Clearly, The Spin doesn’t agree with the fact that this could be ‘the ultimate deal’.
