Our Most Popular Posts
Tag cloud
prank video add-art haha poster you don't need it ads everywhere brands social marketing toronto graffiti chicago china marketing bad deals not creative art branding sticker illegal advertising greenwashing outdoor hack online free politics self-loathing los angeles AAAFFF how to grl public space consumer resistance history ad creep taxes thingsthatmakeyousayhmmmmm nyc aaaproject billboard tv the law justfollowingorders humor san francisco-
This Weeks Popular Posts
- ...The greatest love of all 3 comment(s)
- You Don't Need It - Stickers 46 comment(s)
- Live active culture! 2 comment(s)
- Bus Stop Bench Field Report 11 comment(s)
- "Montauk Monster" is a "Marketing Monster?" 2 comment(s)
Recent Posts
Recent Comments
- Ronnie on “But Advertising is Free Speech…”
- links for 2009-12-10 on Spam Infographics
- Taking the City Back | Tony Medeiros on NY Street Art Takeover Mini Documentary
- New York Street Advertising Takeover, Painting Over Illegal Billboards With Original Art on NY Street Art Takeover Mini Documentary
- Michael Mandiberg on Exactly what are you selling me?
-
Author Archives: Michael Mandiberg
Advertisaphobia
Is there a word for the irrational and/or rational fear of becoming the target of direct marketers? Advertisaphobia? Adverphobia? Adphobia? Ad-phobia? // Share|
From the Archive… Q: Head Scarf?
From October 2008… this post was caught in WordPress limbo. I publish it now, well after this NYC microtrend has gone national, if not global. The questions remain the same, the scope has just increased… I’ve noticed a new NYC microtrend of people wearing billowy checkered cotton scarfs around their necks. They remind me distinctly [...]
Who owns & who controls public space?
Two things happened on my bike today, one which is about advertising and the other isn’t but both are about public space and it’s uses and controls. One: who owns the street sign posts This morning I rode my bike to a not-so-close subway stop because I had to run into Manhattan for a meeting [...]
Give me my damn three feet!
Steve sent me someone’s inquiry that came in off of the AAA contact page. Usually these are either “hey you guys rock” or they are lost advertisers who try to sell ad space somewhere they shouldn’t and don’t get it when we shame them. Here’s the full email. I put it out there in full, [...]
Posted in News Leave a comment
Corporate Giving, Social Networking, and the Devil
Corporate giving is a bad enough deal with the devil, but take corporate giving and mash it up with social networking, and wow! Not only does chase have you scurrying about to give them PR/branding impressions, they get all your personal data in the process. // Share|
Posted in News Leave a comment
Exactly what are you selling me?
Give me Capitalism or Give Me Deatlh & Make Love not Capitalism On the LES of NYC. Too slick. What are they selling? Whose campaign is this? Just imagine for a moment: you sit down for dinner, and you are asked, would you like bottled, tap, or enhanced water tonight? is this a self help [...]
Posted in News 2 Comments
Its Tappening: Bottled Water is Joke
The folks at Tappening have released one of the funniest and smartest PSA-ish social education campaigns I’ve seen in a long time. Well, maybe since the New York Times Special Edition. Reports are these cute single color posters with white lies about the bottled water industry will be hitting the streets of NYC soon, if [...]
From Jitterbug to Twitter, Motivating Each Generation to Buy
I received this today in my inbox. I don’t think there is any commentary needed: Hello Michael, Been wondering about this multi-generational workplace, how social media plays out with each generation and what it really means for how business will be conducted in the future? I have been invited to conduct a training class with [...]
Logorama – Ronald Raygun McDonald gets his revenge