Dear Virgin America,
This really doesn’t make any sense at all to me.
These stencil ads are spray-painted around my neighborhood in Brooklyn. They’re for a Virgin America campaign. I know this because I fly Virgin America. Of course I’m very reluctant to remotely endorse any commerical product on this site, I gotta tell the truth here; [...]
March 14, 2009 – 10:00 am
We have to dump all of our water, in some cases women are being forced to remove their undergarments, and of course we all have to take off our shoes, now we are forced to look at ads in the process. Not that the security check point was a particularly sacred or peaceful place anyway, [...]
February 17, 2009 – 11:39 am
“Bomb-proof” trash cans in London – Part of “bomb proofing” a trash can includes attaching television that plays ads on the side. How many trash cans are exploding in London? What ever happened to David Yassky’s proposal to bring ads to Brooklyn’s trash cans?
This guy Dan Paluska [...]
February 6, 2009 – 9:00 am
What do you do when no one cares about your brand? AAA reader James Ewert reports:
So apparently Butterfinger doesn’t think Chicagoans value the surface area of their skulls. Next Thursday the candy bar is making a desperate plea for attention by inviting folks to a Chicago barbershop to shave their heads and have a [...]
January 12, 2009 – 3:02 pm
Ironically, from an article titled 10 things that won’t survive the recession
via “The Triumph of Bullshit” on Tumblr
December 3, 2008 – 3:43 pm
From that bastion of hard-hitting reporting, The USA Today, we get this piece on the pitiful state of our public schools.
So when administrators at Rancho Bernardo, his suburban San Diego high school, announced the district was cutting spending on supplies by nearly a third, Farber had a problem. At 3 cents a page, his tests [...]
October 20, 2008 – 7:23 am
Vinyl billboard blankets have been draped over all kinds of buildings, but they’re not usually found obscuring the glittering luxury outlets along East 57th Street.
Chanel, however, has done that very thing: hanging a big piece of vinyl over its building at No. 15, promoting Mobile Art, an exhibition by the architect Zaha Hadid that opens [...]
October 3, 2008 – 9:00 am
The L.A. Times is reporting Clear Channel has its eye on 674 state owned digital billboards on California Highways. The billboards were installed to alert drivers to road hazards and for Amber Alerts providing “urgent bulletins in the most serious child-abduction cases.”
But now the state is listening to Clear Channel.
Apparently California needs money. [...]
September 30, 2008 – 5:42 pm
So this is what the Guerilla Girls have come to? Derivative advertisements for advertisements. Pay SVA 30K+ a year to learn how to be an illegal marketer. Great.
August 28, 2008 – 11:30 am
from treehugger:
We have complained before about ad creep, how the public realm is being taken over by private marketers. I don’t know if I should be happy or sad that the Egg Farmers of Canada have determined that there are enough cyclists in London, Ontario that they want to pay to advertise to them by [...]
August 26, 2008 – 9:00 am
from Jordan at Public Ad Campaign
[The] New York Times has an article in the business section about what is now commonly referred to as out-of-home media. “The term has been changed to reflect the expansion into places like, airports, offices, malls, schools and health clubs, where the ads are inside but not inside the home.” [...]
August 25, 2008 – 12:05 pm
Lucas Conley discussing branding with Stephen Colbert…
August 25, 2008 – 9:00 am
from the Village Voice with IllegalBillboards.org’s own Jordan Seiler.
City government and citizen vigilantes wage a losing battle against Clear Channel and illegal ads
By Elizabeth Dwoskin
Over the past seven years, Jordan Seiler estimates that he’s taken down hundreds of billboards, posters, and other signs to replace advertising in public places with his own artwork.
Armed with [...]
August 23, 2008 – 9:00 am
Okay, I’m going to come out and probably break with Anti Advertising Agency official policy, and say that I support ad-supported bike share programs. It is kind of making a deal with the devil, but the urban planning benefits have been demonstrated strongly. Getting cars out of the city, is worth the extra [...]
