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Subway HD Screens: Round 6 – Bogota

By Steve Lambert | Published: July 27, 2011

Pixel Hacking – Decorando la publicidad If you missed the previous rounds, check em out here: Abstractor.tv – Ji Lee Light Criticism – Anti-Advertising Agency and Graffiti Research Lab Pixelator – Jason Eppink Hold Fast Sell Out – Posterchild Stained Glass – Posterchild And of course Aram Bartholl had a roll in the lineage.

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Report: Advertising’s “mirror” of society is racist

By Steve Lambert | Published: April 23, 2011

Actors from black, Asian or other ethnic minority groups appeared in only 5% of the almost 35,000 TV ads screened in the UK last year, according to a report. The report by Clearcast, the body that vets all commercials before they are broadcast, found that TV advertising is “drastically under-representing” the ethnic minority groups. Black, [...]

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Charlie Brooker’s 10 Biggest Cocks and She-Cocks in Advertising… ever!

By Steve Lambert | Published: February 23, 2009

See also: Charlie Brooker’s 10 Biggest Cocks in Advertising

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“We’re All Going To Die,” Industry Laments . . . Again

By Anne Elizabeth Moore | Published: August 12, 2008

An article in yesterday’s AdAge titled “Ad Skipping? Just Wait. It’s Going to Get Worse.” bemoans last week’s US Court of Appeals ruling that would allow—oh, it’s bad—”network DVR” technology, essentially allowing viewers at home to watch whatever they want on cable, whenever they want to watch it, without buying any fancy new equipment or [...]

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CBC on IllegalSigns.ca

By Steve Lambert | Published: July 12, 2008

Go Rami!

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…The greatest love of all

By Emily Gallagher | Published: January 29, 2008

Reality TV has never been anything but a guilty pleasure for me. In high school I shunned my friends for watching the first season of Survivor and at home, if someone walked in on me watching The Real World I would change the channel as quickly as possible. But like it, secretly like it, or [...]

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Arguing From Both Sides

By Steve Lambert | Published: December 29, 2007

Sao Paolo’s Billboard Ban is about to have it’s first birthday. The ban went into effect and remains, despite threats of multiple lawsuits and cries about the loss of (corporate) free speech issued this time last year. For example: But advertising and business groups regard the legislation as injurious to society and an affront to [...]

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Packard Jennings in NYT

By Steve Lambert | Published: December 26, 2007

AAA member, Packard Jennings, who worked on the Bus Stop Ad Project, had a project on the front page of the New York Times on monday. The article discussed shopdropping and referenced the Anti-Advertising Agency’s shopdropping workshops for the PeopleProducts123 project. Update: Here’s some tv news coverage, with our friends from the Center for Tactical [...]

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Charlie Brooker’s 10 Biggest Cocks in Advertising

By Steve Lambert | Published: December 20, 2007

Yes, “Cock” is in the headline. I never said this was a family blog. A friend just sent these two bits of simple genius. You probably don’t want to watch this too loud at work, depending on where you work. I can’t make any sense over what the BBC does and doesn’t bleep. Also the [...]

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Marketers, the Military, and Me

By Steve Lambert | Published: December 18, 2007

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 [...]

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“Real beauty” from the makers of Axe?

By Steve Lambert | Published: December 12, 2007

From our pal Carrie McLaren over at StayFree Magazine: It’s been a while since we checked in on the Dove “Real Beauty” campaign, but I would feel remiss in not pointing out the new round of criticism its getting. If you haven’t seen them, the Dove commercials are as genius as they are insidious (see [...]

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