Badvertising: An Expos of Insipid, Insufferable, Ineffective Advertising

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Jim Morris has been responsible for some of the most memorable ad campaigns in history. He knows best that bad ads dont just create themselves. Part indictment on the advertising industry, part cautionary tale on what not to do with your ads, Jim pulls no punches to better ad people everywhere.

How many ads have you seen that made you question the intelligence of whomever designed it Probably too many. If every ad person read Badvertising, the world would be a more intelligent and prosperous place. Jonah Berger, New York Times bestselling author of Contagious and The Catalyst

Incisive and daring, Badvertising is the only book you need to truly understand both the inner workings of Americas ad agencies, and the minds of those who never cease to astound us with both their creative genius and profound stupidity. After just one reading, youll never see advertising the same way again. Drew Eric Whitman, bestselling author of Cashvertising

How can the ad industry even exist when almost all of the products that it produces fall on a continuum from flawed to failed What is it about this industry and the process of creating, selling, and producing ads that causes so much advertising to be so bad

These are the questions answered in Badvertising. A provocative, truth-to-power expos of ad agencies flaws, foibles, and failingsand why they matter to the consumer and to those in the business. Morris, an advertising legend known as Tagline Jim, surveys myriad advertising agents of stupidity. Hilarious, horrifying, and insightful, each chapter is a grenade lobbed into Americas ad bunkers.

Badvertising is a candid, never-seen-before accumulation of real-world donts and more donts, providing valuable cautionary tales of advertisings stupid side.

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"How many ads have you seen that made you question the intelligence of whomever designed it Probably too many. If every ad person read Badvertising the world would be a more intelligent and prosperous place."
--Jonah Berger, New York Times bestselling author of Contagious and The Catalyst

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Jim Morris is an award-winning advertising copywriter and strategist. For 20 years, he has run a thriving freelance business, specializing in taglines and other short-form brand articulations. A former instructor at Columbia College, Jim speaks at MENSA, colleges, and ad agencies, and has been an occasional columnist for Adweek, Brandweek, and Screen