It's time for some seasonal trivia about misguided Halloween promotional campaigns! Gentle content warning for this one- they're 2000s/2010s style corporate misfires, and they go exactly as well as you'd expect.

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SOURCES:

https://activeinternetmarketing.co.uk/halloween-digital-marketing-campaigns/

https://awario.com/blog/halloween-marketing-campaign-ideas/

https://www.cracked.com/article_35685_the-time-halloweens-michael-myers-did-a-nike-ad-and-the-world-freaked-out.html

https://www.cnbc.com/2016/09/28/home-depot-pulls-controversial-scary-peeper-halloween-decoration-after-complaint.html

https://www.cnn.com/2019/10/31/europe/mcdonalds-sundae-bloody-sundae-advert-scli-intl

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/hershey-reeses-halloween-pumpkin-candy-lawsuit-judge-ruling/

https://www.techdirt.com/2019/04/26/today-bananas-copyright-law-court-urged-to-rule-that-banana-costume-is-not-infringing/

https://www.sott.net/article/305390-Assistant-prosecutor-in-West-Virginia-suspended-after-pulling-gun-on-fake-Halloween-spiders


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