You know, ad placement is very important. Especially online. Good marketers try to increase the click through rate by placing their ads on well targeted websites. They try to make their ads appear on topic and in context in order to make them relevant.

Sometimes they manage to do it right. Sometimes they fail. FAIL!

But it’s not their fault. It’s fate. The odds. Misfortune. Irony. Laughable coincidences.

View the 11 Worst Placed Ads EVER:

Some of the misplaced ads in the presentation above make up for pure black comedy. Some of you won’t like them.

But regardless you laugh at them or not, one question we must answer: is there a way to avoid these bad placements?

I think yes, but to a little degree. What do you think?

Digg it.

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