Tag: Advertising
The last time the Marijuana Policy Project ran its pro-weed billboards at a major sporting event, it cause quite the dustup, so it’s exciting that the advocacy group is targeting the Super Bowl as well. The MPP launched the billboards today in locations near the MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey, where the game […]
First Absolut tried to “pour one out” for 5 Pointz while the wound was still raw, and yesterday, Jolly Rancher attempted the same folly. Twitter user @mybodystory alerted us to the corporate infraction, which depicted the candy as some sort of hallucination-inducing substance capable of seeing past the whitewashing that the soon-to-be demolished aerosol playground […]
Do not call this winter storm “Hercules.” It’s not the thing’s name–winter storms don’t have names–and besides, it’s a silly thing to call what was ultimately pretty minor event anyway. In a stroke of evil genius, The Weather Channel began giving its own names to winter storms in 2012. Gawker explained why this is bad last year, […]
Remember those billboards that popped up around town last week, ostensibly advertising things like the NSA and internet regulation? We knew the ads were part of a teaser campaign, and now, BitTorrent, Inc. is taking responsibility. That’s a lot more interesting than I was expecting. The company unmasked itself today by altering the ads to […]
David Bowie’s “Sound and Vision” has been enjoying an unlikely second life as an advertising jingle in recent years, featuring both in traditional TV spots and big interactive spectacles. One of those ads, for Sony’s Xperia line of smartphones, featured a skeletal remix of the original track, stripping it down to just its vocals and adding a […]
Reader Jeff Owens sent in this picture of a billboard that seems connected to the NSA-skewering sign in Tribeca we showed you yesterday. This one reads “The internet should be regulated,” and is on the corner of 27th Street and Broadway. Clear Channel confirmed that yesterday’s billboard was part of a teaser advertising campaign, but […]
“Your data should belong to the NSA,” reads a new billboard on West Broadway near Canal Street. There’s no indication of who put it up–just that phrase, all-caps, against a plain white background. It’s the kind of sly commentary one might expect from Banksy, if he wasn’t busy painting dogs peeing on things. A similar […]
The MTA took out a full page ad in Sunday’s New York Daily News, touting its Metro-North line. “Wonderful getaways just outside the City,” reads the travel promo. “Experience Metro-North’s discount one-day getaways and overnights to the Hudson Valley, Connecticut and beyond.” As lovely as it sounds to go on “vineyard tours and wine tastings,” […]
I always hated the way Tom O’Bedlam read Charles Bukowski poetry. It’s so nauseatingly full of pomp and ACTING. And now, some agency in Barcelona has made it even worse by putting a Tom O’Bedlam reading of “So You Want to Be a Writer?” as a backdrop to Dewar’s Whiskey. OH IT IS SO DRAMATIC. And epic. […]
To promote its coverage of a bunch of upcoming soccer games in the UK known as the Premier League to New Yorkers and tourists alike, NBC Sports enlisted UK street artist D*Face to create a massive Times Square billboard. “Don’t call it soccer. It’s football… just not as you know it,” reads the ad, portions […]
