Holidays are happy occasions. Right? Not for these brands, they certainly weren\u2019t.<\/p>\n
Over the years we\u2019ve seen some of the most tone-deaf, irrelevant, off-the-point, and in extreme cases, disastrous marketing attempts by big brands surfacing around the holidays. How did these ads ever saw the light of day, escapes us.<\/p>\n
Here we are sharing ten of the worst holiday ads (according to us) with you, in an attempt so we all learn the most valuable lessons in marketing<\/a>: what NOT to do.<\/p>\n Apple usually gets their marketing right.<\/p>\n Therefore it was a shock to everyone when they got such critical detail wrong in their 2013 Christmas commercial.<\/p>\n The commercial is quite a typical one, in all senses. Families getting together. Preparing Christmas food. Lighting Christmas trees. Wrapping Christmas presents. Just all the regular stuff you see in every ad with the Christmas spirit <\/a> \u2013 with the addition of a lone teenager always busy with a phone.<\/p>\n But here\u2019s the catch. The teenager here isn\u2019t being antisocial. He\u2019s secretly making videos of everyone, capturing the little moments. Cue the \u2018Awws\u2019.<\/p>\n1. Apple Forgot How To Make Videos On Its Phone<\/h2>\n