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In 1985 the Coca-Cola company was losing ground to rival Pepsi. Coke had to do something drastic to win back consumers and in their mind that thing was taste. On April 23, 1985 Coke introduced the world to New Coke. But by June of that same year they were fielding over 8,000 angry phone calls a day and by July the product was pulled. So what went wrong? How did Coke make such a massive mistake?Terrible Ads is a product of AdCoach - AdCoach provides elearning classes for advertising professionals. Learn more at AdCoach.coTerrible Ads listeners can support this podcast by signing up on AdCoach.co and using the code BADADS to save 15% on all classes. Written and produced by Ben SilversteinMusic provided by BenSound.com, Filmstro.com, and FilmMusic.ioLicense: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

Introducing Terrible Ads, a podcast where we take a look at some of the biggest marketing failures, and stories behind them. Most ad campaigns successfully drive business and grow sales for their respective companies. But sometimes these ad campaigns don't just fail at growing business, they end up being so bad they actually HURT business and are forever remembered by the public as a Terrible Ad. Join us as we explore the stories behind some of the worst ads of all time.

In 2007 Quiznos’ Subs had over 4,700 locations across the United States. By 2017 that number had shrunk to less than 400 and the company was bankrupt. As is the case with any major business collapse, there are a multitude of factors that contributed to their demise, including a leveraged buyout and the 2008 recession. However, a couple years before things started taking a turn for the worse Quiznos’ introduced the world to one of the worst, yet memorable ad campaignsThe Spongmonkeys (yes, that is their actual name).This is the story of the Spongmonkeys, how they made their way into a national ad campaign, and their eventual way into meme culture.