Marketing Facts

In Chinese, the KFC slogan "finger lickin' good" comes out as "eat your fingers off".

The Ramses brand condom is named after the great pharaoh Ramses II who fathered over 160 children.

Is bottled water worth it? 'Evian' spelled backwards is 'naive'.

Coca-Cola's 'Super Pure' Dasani bottled water is just filtered tap water!

In 2012, Pizza Hut released a perfume that smells like a box of fresh pizza.

PornHub planted 15,473 trees in honor of their "PornHub Gives America Wood" environmental campaign.

A movie theater in China mistakenly used a gay fan-made Photoshop picture as the official poster for Thor 2.

Dunkin' Donuts rigged nearly 500 city buses across Seoul with hidden scent atomizers. Every time the Dunkin' jingle played on the radio, the bus filled with the smell of fresh coffee. Commuters would step off — right next to a Dunkin' location. Store visits near bus stops jumped 16%. Coffee sales shot up 29%.

In the mid-90’s, Coca Cola recalled an advertising poster due to a hidden sexual image.

In 1907, Kellogg’s launched a campaign called "Wink Day" to promote Cornflakes. Women were encouraged to “wink at your grocer and see what you get” (and what they got was a free box of cereal!)

Coca-Cola owns all the domain names that can be read as 'ahh' — from ahh.com all the way up to a domain with 62 h's. They registered all 61 variations for a 2013 marketing campaign called 'The Ahh Effect.'

As part of an advertising campaign, Molson, a Canadian beer company, strategically placed 'beer fridges' around Europe that only Canadian passports could unlock.

In 1996, Richard Branson's Virgin Cola took out full-page newspaper ads warning customers about a new "blue-detecting" technology — their cans would turn bright blue when the drink expired. The public safety message? "Do not buy any blue cans." Pepsi had just launched its bold new blue can design the same week. It was a masterclass in corporate trolling disguised as consumer protection.

Coca-Cola changed its 99-year-old formula in April 1985 and called the new version, predictably, New Coke. The hotline lit up with 1,500 angry calls a day. A protest group - the Old Cola Drinkers of America - signed up 100,000 members. After 79 days of public fury, Coca-Cola brought the original back as Coca-Cola Classic. New Coke quietly vanished.