TanaCon sold 20,000 tickets to a venue built for 5,000
YouTuber Tana Mongeau launched a rival convention to VidCon in 2018. Four times the expected crowd showed up; the event was shut down in a single afternoon.
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3,222 CAS PUBLIÉS · MIS À JOUR RÉGULIÈREMENTAkshay Kumar s'est excusé pour une publicité de pan masala — puis est réapparu dans une autre
D'anciennes vidéos de lui jurant de ne jamais promouvoir le tabac ont refait surface. Il s'est excusé à minuit et a fait don de ses honoraires. Dix-huit mois plus tard, il était de retour dans la même publicité.
Lire le casDAZN raised Serie A prices four times in two years — subscribers revolted
From €30.99 to €34.99 to €69.99. Fans asked if Serie A was worth €70 a month. The hashtag was #vergogna.
Lire le casNotCo parodied Parmalat's baby animals — CONAR pulled the ad in 48 hours
The plant-milk brand grew up Parmalat's 1996 mascot animals and gave them stomach aches. Lactalis called it IP theft. Brazil's ad regulator agreed.
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Japan's worst food-poisoning case, 2000. Snow Brand delayed the recall, lied about the scope, and suspected coverup destroyed a 75-year-old company.
Lire le casOrange slipped ads into 7.8M email inboxes disguised as real mail — fined €50M
France's top telecom sold ad slots inside its own email service. The ads looked like real mail. Users never consented. 7.8 million saw them.
Lire le casAir Miles became Avios — and 8 million members found 'free' flights now cost £301 extra
The UK's best-known loyalty scheme merged into Avios in 2011. Members kept their points but lost the tax-free redemptions that made the programme worth joining.
Lire le casTwo Korean ecommerce platforms stopped paying sellers in the same week
TMON and WeMakePrice, owned by Qoo10 Group, missed vendor settlements in July 2024. The court found liquidation value exceeded going-concern value.
Lire le casCass Beer hired Gordon Ramsay to call a mass-market lager 'great' — Korea laughed
Ramsay drank Cass on camera and called it 'bloody fresh.' Korean drinkers, who know Cass is bland, mocked the mismatch between chef and product.
Lire le casScotland's 170-store fashion chain closed every shop and sold only the name
M&Co survived its first administration in 2020. The second, in December 2022, found no buyer for the stores — only for the trademark.
Lire le casTesco's 'personalised deal' on sunflower oil cost 6p more than the shelf price
The algorithm-generated Clubcard offer was priced above the standard price after a separate promotion cut it. The screenshot went viral on Reddit.
Lire le casA $300M beauty chain built for photos discovered photos don't repurchase
THE COLORIST's stores were designed for Xiaohongshu check-ins. After the photos were taken, customers did not come back to buy anything.
Lire le casWoolworths survived 99 years on the high street — then closed 807 stores in six weeks
From 1,141 shops at its peak to £385M in debt and administration. Supermarkets, the death of CD sales and the 2008 credit crunch finished it.
Lire le casJapan's third-largest phone maker left ¥143B in debt five years after its spin-off
Fujitsu handed its mobile division to a fund in 2018. Five years later FCNT was in rehabilitation with ¥143B in debt. Lenovo bought the brands.
Lire le casGermany's last department store chain went insolvent three times in four years
Galeria Karstadt Kaufhof survived two world wars but not its landlord-owner Signa's collapse. 15,000 staff, €680M in state aid, and 92 stores kept shrinking.
Lire le casFunai Electric, last VHS maker on Earth, went bankrupt with ¥82B in debt
Funai supplied Walmart with 2 million TVs a year and made Philips, Magnavox and Emerson sets. It never built a brand of its own, and China made it irrelevant.
Lire le casTing Hsin's subsidiaries bought tainted oil for seven years — Taiwan boycotted the group
Wei-Chuan's milk share fell from 40% to 25%. Three subsidiaries shut. The group donated NT$3B and exited Taiwan's oil market entirely.
Lire le casJapan Life sold ¥240B in magnetic necklaces nobody rented
Customers paid millions of yen for magnetic therapy devices they never saw, promised rental income that came from the next customer's deposit.
Lire le casYumeijing was China's No.1 children's cream for 25 years — then fell to 12th with 2% share
From 20,000 retail terminals and 90% market coverage to 2.06% share and a state-owned buyout. The 2-yuan cream that defined a generation lost the online era.
Lire le casCoconut Palm has been fined four times for suggestive ads — it keeps running them
Each fine is ¥400,000. Each round of coverage is worth more. After the 2024 penalty the brand posted a public statement saying it disagreed.
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