Designer Store Replaces Mannequins with Live Models on Treadmils
A popular Chinese clothing store sparked controversy by showcasing its products on female models walking on treadmills rather than old-fashioned mannequins. You could say the marketing team at Chinese designer brand store ITIB was thinking outside the box when it decided to replace plastic mannequins with live models walking on small treadmills. The official explanation […]
Car Manufacturer Stacks Seven-Car Tower to Demonstrate Body Durability
Chinese car manufacturer Chery came up with an unusual marketing pitch to promote its new eQ7 electric crossover – building a tower of cars to show how durable its aluminum body is. China’s electric vehicle production is firing on all cylinders these days, and manufacturers are coming up with all kinds of marketing strategies to […]
GigaBier- Tesla’s Infamous $30 Beer
Electric vehicle manufacturer Tesla recently unveiled an unexpected new product for its loyal client base – GigaBier, a special brew that comes in bottles inspired by its unreleased Cybertruck. GigaBier was originally revealed in October 2021, to celebrate the inauguration of Tesla’s Gigafactory in Berlin. That grand opening was delayed for over 260 days due […]
Male Online Seller Finds Massive Success Modelling Women’s High Heel Footwear
A 41-year-old man has reportedly been making a killing selling women’s high heel shoes and boots by modeling them himself. The unnamed man who reportedly hails from China’s Sichuan province recently made news headlines after it was revealed that he had been using a very unusual technique to boost up his online sales. Live stream […]
Entrepreneur Sparks Controversy by Offering Fishing Trip in the Company of Naked Women
A boat tour organizer in Thailand has been getting a lot of attention because of his original-yet-controversial business idea – fishing trips in the company of nude ladies. I’ve always found fishing quite boring – hot take, I know – but one Thai entrepreneur in Chon Buri recently came up with an intriguing way of […]
Bachelor Tries to Find a Wife With Witty Subway Advertising Banners
A London bachelor is taking extreme measures to increase his chances of finding a wife – renting subway advertising banners in the English capital to get as much exposure as possible. If you’ve passed through the Oxford Circus subway station in London during the last few days, you’ve probably seen a couple of unusual advertising […]
Japanese Restaurant Finds Success With “Delivery Macho” Service
After struggling to stay open during the Covid-19 pandemic, a sushi restaurant in Japan’s Aichi Prefecture, has found success with an ingenious “macho delivery” service that involves using buff bodybuilders as delivery boys. Masanori Sugiura, a third-generation owner of the 60-year-old sushi restaurant Imazushi in the city of Anjo, started working out at the gym […]
German City Will Pay You One Million Euros if You Can Prove That It Doesn’t Exist.
The German city of Bielefeld, in the north-east of North Rhine-Westphalia, has announced that it is offering a €1 million prize to anyone who can prove that it doesn’t exist. To have any hope of understanding this bizarre offer, you have to go back to 1993 when the famous “Bielefeld? There’s No Such Thing!” conspiracy […]
Russian Man Hilariously Tries to Sell 3-Room Apartment Using Quentin Tarantino
A resident of Chelyabinsk, in western Russia, recently got his five minutes of online fame after his apartment sale ad went viral on social media for featuring renowned film director Quentin Tarantino. The last thing you would expect to see while looking at photos of apartments to buy is an internationally famous director seemingly inspecting […]
Football Teams in Spain Are Installing TV-Urinals in Their Stadium Bathrooms, But Not for the Obvious Reason
Real Madrid, one of the world’s most popular football clubs is currently testing TV urinals in the men’s bathrooms of their stadium, Sandiago Bernabeu, and it’s not the only one. One would think that the management of the Spanish club is trying to make it easy for fans to follow the action on the field […]
Lonely Female Shoppers in China Can Now Rent ‘Shopping Boyfriends’ by the Hour
Shopping malls in China have come up with an ingenious strategy to attract female shoppers. Many of them now offer attractive ‘shopping’ boyfriends that can be rented by the hour at really affordable rates. What started as a clever promotion for March 8th, International Women’s Day, has apparently become a year-long strategy to attract female […]
Russians Get Domino’s Pizza Logo Tattoos in Exchange for “Free Pizzas for Life”
The Russian branch of Domino’s Pizza was curious to know just how much people love their pies, so they came up with a promotion that challenged fans to get a tattoo of the Domino’s logo in a visible spot on their bodies, for the chance to win 100 free pizzas per year, for 100 years. […]
Japan’s Most Popular Sake Maker Runs Full-Page Newspaper Ad Asking People to Stop Paying So Much for Its Sake
Corporations are in business to make money and being popular is good for business, which is why we have advertising to hammer brand names into our minds and keep us buying and buying. But sometimes along comes a company which loves its product so much that it’s willing to sacrifice some revenue to give more […]
You Can Now Smell Like Fried Chicken Thanks to This KFC Drumstick Bath Bomb
Ever dream of immersing yourself in a giant tub of used KFC cooking oil that would leave you smelling like your favorite fried chicken? Well, thanks to this fried drumstick-shaped bath bomb, now you can. KFC recently teamed up with Japanese novelty retailer Village Vanguard to create one of its most outrageous products yet – […]
23-Year-Old Woman Memorizes IKEA’s New 328-Page Catalogue in a Week
Most people could probably spend a whole year just looking at IKEA’s 2018 catalogue and still not remember all the details in its 328 pages. But then again, Yaanja Wintersoul is not most people, she is a two-time World Memory Champion so she only needed one week to accomplish the seemingly impossible task. 23-years-old Yaanja […]