10 More of the Worst Stock Photos for Your Marketing

Back by popular demand, it’s the worst stock photos for marketing your business, part deux! As I explained in our last entry, creating designs for email campaigns requires slogging through a LOT of stock imagery, from the mediocre to the very bad to the completely unusable, to find the hidden gems. It’s a lot of work, but my pain is your gain – you get to enjoy these truly baffling stock photo finds.

Without further ado, the dubious honor of Worst Stock Photo goes to the following glorious mistakes:

1. I Can Hear the Ocean!

Guys, I don’t think that’s how a microphone works …

 

2. That’s Definitely How Normal People Eat Dessert

Move along, nothing to see here.

 

3. And the Purpose of This Is?

A production of Hamlet set in a high school cafeteria?

 

4. A Star is Born

I’m not going to judge your hobbies.

 

5. Circus of Oh God Why?

What are his legs doing?

 

6. Nope Nope Nope

Looks like somebody learned a new trick in Photoshop.

 

7. Animal Abuse

BRB, calling PETA.

 

8. He Just Likes to Feel Fancy Sometimes, OK?

A jaunty cravat makes any robbery a special occasion.

 

9. The Secret Recipe

Do I even want to know what’s in the pot?

 

10. He Fought the Jaw

Spoiler: the jaw won.

If you’ve ever had the pleasure of combing through a stock photography database, I’m sure you feel my pain. Designing eye-catching, high-performing campaigns takes a lot of time, a good portion of which is spent finding the image or vector that’s just right for your design. It’s a necessary part of running a successful marketing program, but there is one surefire way to skip it: let us do it for you.