The New York Times has done a good overview on the desperate attempts of advertisers to “get over the clutter” resulting in a proliferation of advertising on every possible blank space in U.S. cities.
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I love how “Cut through the Clutter” is never accompanied by the observation that the advertisers are the ones who are making the clutter in the first place. Their work isn’t clutter, of course.