Philadelphia, famous for it’s murals, has had some new additions to the walls – hand painted illegal ads for Colt 45. The people of Philadelphia have already managed to get Colt 45 Malt Liquor ads off their city buses due to community concerns. Yesterday they beat the murals.
Some more than 4 word long excerpts [...]
Clocking in a bit late to my Anti-Friday work day, ooops, and I’m revisiting an old issue: street artist Fauxreel’s blatantly criminal spring motorscooter ad series in his native Toronto. It’s a modern classic tale: corporate gas-guzzling motor vehicle manufacturer wants to up the street cred with some ads by a jen-yoo-wine member of the [...]
A tour of Times Square with en eye on the advertising. The video goes into the empty Times Square building to see the computers that control the signs.
Wait, did he say the screen could be “controlled by any computer”??? Hmmm…
via Gothamist
Several people have sent me invitations to this Facebook application called (Lil) Green Patch. The invitation says “Here is a Jenny Appleseed plant for your (Lil) Green Patch. Could you help me by sending a plant back? Together we can fight Global Warming!”
So a little research later, I have learned that this [...]
Note: I am skeptical of how effective and accurate this actually is. Sounds like something the manufacturer could easily over play to attract investors. Creepy none the less.
By STEPHANIE CLIFFORD
In advertising these days, the brass ring goes to those who can measure everything — how many people see a particular advertisement, when they see [...]
Ok, I’m paraphrasing. Here’s some choice excerpts from the piece:
Self-loathing has become all too commonplace in marketing, as Bridge Worldwide CEO Jay Woffington sees it, and not entirely without reason.
Young marketers or agency executives don’t take long to learn they’ve dedicated their lives to creating stuff people seek to avoid, and with increasing [...]
Update: here’s a video we found on youtube (which doesn’t seem top-secret)
Are we one step close to a Blade Runner-style dystopian future in which giant blimps float over our city-scapes broadcasting advertising? Well, that might be a bit extreme, but we certainly are a at the point where modern science as seen fit to [...]
April 29, 2008 – 11:00 pm
Our pals at San Francisco’s Billboard Liberation Front, feeling the heat after their recent ATT/NSA campaign, “decided to temporarily relocate to safehouses on the European continent.” While hiding out they spoke at The Game is Up! in Ghent Belgium and distributed one of their many valuable texts.
The new PDF of their The Art & [...]
It’s my birthday today, so of course I’m off to the amazing Polish salt caves of northern Chicago with my friend Liz, and I’m therefore gonna forgo the whole critical engagement with the ad industry thing and just tell you a story.
So a couple days ago, I was riding the train, when a super cute [...]
An exclusive branded vacation/soiree intended for some mommy bloggers—but not others—succeeded this week in raising some questions about transparency, PR, and free shit. Not, surely, the kind of buzz the fancy party was intended to start.
The party was thrown by market giant Johnson & Johnson. The location was DisneyLand, owned by the Disney Company, long [...]
December 23, 2007 – 11:44 am
Thanks to R.Walker, I came across the following post by Paul Lukas, who’s excellent ‘zine, Beer Frame, I discovered in my first year of college. Paul puts together some compelling arguments for keeping logos off team sports uniforms and in doing so, brings up some other interesting ideas about commercialism and our culture. [...]
December 18, 2007 – 1:48 am
You may have heard already about the A&E billboard beaming audio to the street in New York City. A speaker mounted above the billboard sends ultrasound waves from 7 stories up to a specific location below. Because it’s highly directional, for people outside the target area it’s hardly, if at all, audible. Here’s a demonstration [...]
December 13, 2007 – 5:38 pm
Emily’s been working on a piece about Facebook’s creepy Beacon software (you probably heard about it in the news). But in the midst of the controversy Facebook has taken the marketing of social networking profiles to a whole new low with facebookbusinesssolutions.com. Did they think we wouldn’t notice?
It starts with Facebook Surf and [...]
December 10, 2007 – 10:25 am
Thanks to Rob Walker for allowing to take this post entirely from his blog, Murketing, cause it’s just so good.
One of my running themes is that there is nothing new about contemporary consumers being fed up with advertising. We hear all the time about supposed discovery that what sets today’s consumers apart is that they [...]
October 24, 2007 – 8:05 pm
Introducing guest contributor Anne Elizabeth Moore. Anne is the most qualified person to ever write anything for the AAA because she is an actual writer who has written for magazines that I have heard of - and subscribed to - like Punk Planet, Stay Free!, Bitch, The Onion, and The Progressive. And she wrote [...]
