QR Codes - In or Out?

[john.quinn]

QR Codes in Traditional Ads Lure “Curious Consumers” - MediaBuyerPlanner

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consumer awareness of QR codes is on the rise, with eight out of 10 aware of them. Finally, consumers scan those QR codes from advertisements, most frequently from print advertisements in magazines, at 35%; billboards and signs at 11%, and direct mailers at another 11%.​

 

[Karen Ann]

I Shazzamed a Geico commercial the other day. Took me to an extended version of the guy singing. Quite funny. Was tricky to get the phone and app ready before commercial was over... I don't believe I could've scanned the QR Code from where I was sitting.

 

[yagoparamo]

Totally over the top (even more than JQ purple tie)

QR Code Condoms Let You Check In Before Getting It On [VIDEO]

 

[ed.brooks]

My new favorite website: WTF QR CODES - Where QR Codes failures don't get to die the death they deserve.

 

[Jeff Kershner]

My new favorite website: WTF QR CODES - Where QR Codes failures don't get to die the death they deserve.

Those are some of the best uses of QR codes I've seen to date.

I'd live QR codes to become mainstream, but I just don't see it happening.

QR scan it OR Shazam it?

 

[ed.brooks]

Those are some of the best uses of QR codes I've seen to date.

I'd live QR codes to become mainstream, but I just don't see it happening.

QR scan it OR Shazam it?

Look! In the sky! It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s the dumbest thing I’ve ever seen in my life!

 

[Jeff Kershner]

Look! In the sky! It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s the dumbest thing I’ve ever seen in my life!

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Ed, I was gonna say that has to be a photoshop job but then I remembered I had seen this for myself in Ocean City Maryland.

I think the "what the hell is this" factor of the QR code has more impact than the codes themselves. Ha!

 

[Billfred]

Ed, I was gonna say that has to be a photoshop job but then I remembered I had seen this for myself in Ocean City Maryland.

I think the "what the hell is this" factor of the QR code has more impact than the codes themselves. Ha!

You'd think that if you had the money to fly a banner plane, you'd have the smarts to get a really short URL (meaning less data in the same space) so your QR code has a greater chance of being scannable at that altitude...

 

[joe.pistell]

Look! In the sky! It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s the dumbest thing I’ve ever seen in my life!

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ok everyone, tell the truth, how many of us tried to scan that QR?


Me.

 

[Billfred]

ok everyone, tell the truth, how many of us tried to scan that QR?

I looked at it and said "There's no way."

Then you posted.

Then I wondered "Well, maybe I'd get a lucky shot..."

Then I tried to scan.

Then I failed.

Miserably.