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Mad Woman: Does the McStrategy Have You Dying for McDonald’s?

I have to confess that I know a thing or two about McDonald’s. It’s one of the brands that I’ve worked on in the course of my career, so I therefore understand the McStrategy, the McMessaging and the McGoal of the advertising. However, even I was surprised by the lengths that one guy went to in order to eat a Golden Arches breakfast recently. It all unfolded last Monday morning outside the McDonald’s near our office in the suburbs of D.C.

Bad Advertising!

Here are a couple really good examples taken from Frederik Samuel’s ad design blog where you see how design and copy writing really make a difference. The first one is a myspace ad with typos and a free or stolen image that was used which still had the original owner’s watermark! Horrible! This next one [...]