Tag: Advertising
Titan — the outdoor advertising company responsible for placings ads on pay phone booths throughout the city and equipping hundreds of them with “beacons” that track passing cellphones — has announced that they will get rid of the controversial devices. A City Hall spokesman tells Buzzfeed that the pseudo-surveillance gizmos “will be removed over the coming days.” Gimbal, the […]
Hundreds of “beacons” have been installed in phone booths throughout New York City in order to collect data from passing cellphones, bringing us one step closer to dystopian science fiction where ads follow everyone around. Titan, an advertisement placement company, uses the bluetooth enabled devices to push ads to a phone and transmit “anonymous” data to a third-party server. As […]
India’s Advertising Standards Council has issued new regulations banning advertisements that portray people with darker skin negatively “in relation to being attractive to the opposite sex, matrimony, job placement, promotions and other prospects.” Skin lightening is a $600 million dollar industry in India, and though ads have become less obviously prejudiced in recent years, the advertising council […]
When the mysterious billboard with the text “The future of the internet belongs to the highest bidder” appeared in San Francisco, it seemed satirical, but not unbelievable. The accompanying website Jointhefastlane.com advertised premium access to the internet — like the “35x faster” downloading speed on websites like “Videotube” and “Movieflix” — for a hefty fee. Today, BitTorrent […]
According to its creator, someday soon, a forthcoming device called PND Wearable will scan your brain throughout the day and deliver advertising that’s custom-suited to your present mood. By monitoring your mental activity and comparing it to location data from Google Glass, PND will be able to tell how you’re feeling and how you might respond […]
In an anonymous leak, an alleged former Google employee, is accusing the company of deliberately trying to cheat websites who publish Google AdSense ads. The accusation, published on Pastebin, states that Google created a policy explicitly to steal profits, while turning a blind eye to “VIPs.” Google executive Matt Cutts took to a popular developers’ forum, Hacker […]
Ordinarily, we wouldn’t encourage you to look at advertisements in your free time, but this Japanese-market Vitamin Water spot is an easy exception. Soundtracked by a goofily catchy new song about NYC by former Das Racist guy and all-around great rapper Heems (“New/plus York/equals New York!”), a dude with a weird turntable/boombox hybrid for a […]
In “Ads Libitum,” French artist David Redon replaced Uncle Sam with André 3000 and Rosie the Riveter with Kanye West in classic American political posters. His vintage magazine ad remixes have these nice little hand-drawn details and meticulous digital flourishes, all for the sake of hip hop lyrics puns in an advertising context. Dirt Off Your Shoulders shampoo or So […]
Five museums — New York’s Whitney, Washington’s National Gallery of Art, the Dallas Museum of Art, the Art Institute of Chicago and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art — will be taking over 50,000 various outdoor advertising spaces in August, from electronic billboards to bus shelters to subway ads, coast to coast. The Dallas Museum of […]
The above ad, for the medical marijuana-reviewing site Weedmaps, was supposed to begin playing on a Times Square video billboard Tuesday. Weedmaps had approval from Neutron Media, the company that owns and operates the space, but when representatives went to see the looping advertisement this week, it wasn’t playing. CBS, whose logo appears on the billboard, […]
