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At almost every moment of our lives, we are constantly bombarded by different advertising campaigns<\/a> or television spots. Even your favourite films and music videos contain blatant forms of advertising. However, the few that tend to stick in your mind are either horrifically bad, funny or controversial - some lead to viral status for a reason after all.<\/p>

What better form of advertising is there than more publicity on top of the spots you've already paid for? So as long as people are talking about it, your ad campaign is successful. No such thing as bad publicity<\/a>, it seems.<\/p>

Here are 5 that have stuck\u00a0in our minds from the past few years.<\/p>

Cheryl Lee<\/em><\/p> ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Funny, controversial or horrible? These 'genius' marketing ideas have definitely stuck with us for the right or wrong reasons.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":65,"featured_media":78561,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_yoast_wpseo_metadesc":"Funny, controversial or horrible? 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