Companies will go to great lengths to catch consumers’ attention and the following are impressive examples of extreme marketing.

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A fine selection of the most inventive, unexpected and unconventional advertisements that all rely on imaginative ideas rather than on a big marketing budget.

Things are done a bit differently in Russia, including these unique mobile phone ads featuring curvy buxom pin-up women from a bygone era.

Social advertising is meant to raise public awareness of certain important issues. The advertisements as creative as these are really likely to reach their aim.

These images compare what fast food commercials claim their food looks like to how it actually arrives when you order it.

A collection of really ingenious examples of advertising.

That’s actually what yogurt ads are telling us in more simple words.

The schools of self-defense are usually open for women, children and seniors. That’s how some of those schools promote themselves in a creative way.

Photographer Sean Dufrene uses his camera skills to create compelling images for ad campaigns. Check out his interesting juxtapositions in these original photo ads.

Those who read teen magazines from the 1999-2001, remember these celebrities having their pictures taken for various product advertising.

Some designers have so many creative ideas they make ads that are difficult to judge. They look disturbing, yet the idea behind them is pretty clear.

These are some of the geekiest, inspirational and nostalgic retro video game print ad designs from the 80’s and 90’s.

This year’s London International Awards festival gave out the coveted LIA statue to the following brilliant ads from around the world. Thousands of companies applied but these creative ads stood out, with their shock value, originality and humor.

From WTF to creepy, weird, sexist, near paedophilia, racist, inappropriate… advertisements, there’s a bit of everything you hopefully won’t see nowadays.

The ‘politically correct’ can be annoying, but tasteless advertising is even worse. Luckily for us, society standards change and so does the advertising…

Some of the most creative advertisements placed on plastic and paper bags and packages.

These are some of the best examples of how you can make an interesting ad for a pretty boring and mundane product. Check them out.

What were the prices like 15 years ago? This Best Buy flyer from 1996 knows the answer.

Take a look at these bizarre and disturbing ads from various countries where kids are used to sell products in a less than appealing manner.

Sssshhh. We’re Selling Sexual Abuse

These disturbing and creepy ads are meant to either make you buy a product or shock you into awareness of a cause. However, they are more likely going to freak you out and cause nightmares.

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Dear Izismilers,

Over the past few weeks, we got more complaints that advertisement on izismile.com appeared with a sound which is very annoying to watch the content on the site. It is even more annoying for those who are at work. This situation is very uncomfortable for us as well. We are against such advertising, and always fight with those advertisers who are unfairly trying to show these ad banners on izismile.

I want to emphasize once again; our internal policy include a total ban on display of any advertisement (audio and video) with automatic sound. You can play a video ad on the site to watch it but only you should be able to turn it on. In all advertising programs where izismile participates, we activated filters to prohibit display of advertising with automatic sound on our site.

Yesterday the first steps have been taken to eradicate such ads. Several advertisers were banned. We hope that you won’t see or hear advertising with automatic sound anymore. However, if you come across such a banner, then in order to help us remove it from the site, you'll need to do the following:

1. Make a screenshot of the banner with the sound.

2. Click on the banner and copy the link to the site where the banner leads.

3. Email me the link and the screenshot to admin@izismile.com as soon as possible.

Only together can we overcome this stuff on Izi. Thank you.

PS. We’d like to ask all of you to take part in the poll inside this post and specify in the comments which country you are in (this is important because advertising with automatic sound is targeted, i.e. they will only show it in certain countries).

Advertising agencies use graffiti to make their ads more appealing and creative. The results are amazing.

Some advertisers can be downright brutal with their message to smokers to stop their nasty little habit. However, despite these visually effective anti smoking ads I doubt many actual smokers decided to put down their cancer sticks.

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These ads will blow your mind away with their amazing creativity and make you think twice before saying that advertising is mindless. Some of them are a bit scary and/or gross but they definitely do catch your attention.

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These funny ads are real, and were created by the automobile companies to no doubt spark interest. The billboards almost come off as kids talking trash on the schoolyard, except these “kids” have much cooler cars.

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When advertisers throw money at catching consumer’s attention, some very funny ads can come out as a result. These amusing creations prove that capitalism and creativity can coexist.

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These amazing old advertisements for computers are really funny to us now. These are from the days where they still had to convince us that computers weren't an instrument of the devil, and that we would find them affordable and useful. From promises of better productivity to making us think it was sexy to have a computer, the advertisers pimped out Leonardo DaVinci and Dom Delouise to hawk their wares.

A photographer went to a bunch of fast food places, and bought stuff to compare to the ads. The results were not surprising. (from here)

A photographer went to a bunch of fast food places, and bought stuff to compare to the ads. The results were not surprising.

Watch what happens when PETA and other animal rights organizers create campaigns against animal abuse, neglect, and testing. These animal protection ads may shock you.

These are the most effective anti smoking advertisements that you’ve ever seen. They deal with everything from the effects that smoking has on your health to how unattractive the habit is. They are quite clever.

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