Advertising at its Worst?
How does a small mattress company in California rack up over 3 million views of their advert on YouTube? Gary’s Mattress has struck YouTube gold for all the wrong reasons with possibly the most un-P.C advert in history. What to mock first…his poor reading of cue cards, the bad copy or the racist, costume-clad moments?
If you haven’t seen this then it’s definitely worth a watch:
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