Ello, Now With Ads
Ello — the hot, new, all-anyone-could-talk-about-for-one-day social network — built up buzz by saying it would never have ads or sell your info. But does it seem a little boring, a little useless, and...
View ArticleTransportation Alternatives Blasts the MTA’s New Traffic PSAs
Today, the MTA released a series of on-air PSAs “to educate bus customers, pedestrians and bicyclists about safety on and around buses.” But for one New York-based traffic advocacy group, the ads don’t...
View ArticleThis NYC Subway Train Is Covered In Legal “Street Art”
Since 1989, New York City subway trains have, for the most part, been completely graffiti free — an accomplishment that didn’t come easily. It took the MTA decades to eradicate the illicit urban art...
View ArticleMTA Bans All Political Advertising Because of Hate Speech
The MTA board of directors voted 9-2 on Wednesday in favor of a resolution banning all political advertising on MTA property, NBC New York reports. The ban comes largely in response to Texas-based...
View ArticleHow Funny Would It Be If Times Square Billboards Became Illegal?
In 2012, some roads in New York City were placed under the jurisdiction of the federal National Highway System. Two of these roads are Broadway and 7th Avenue. The place where they intersect is the...
View ArticleCandy Conglomerate Mars Inc. Vandalizes NYC To Sell More Snickers
One of the world’s biggest food companies, Mars Inc., launched a new guerrilla campaign that would make New York City’s most ardent street artists proud. Adweek reports that stickers promoting Snickers...
View ArticleRIP Unshitty Instagram
A lot more advertising is coming to Instagram, the New York Times reports, undoing the mostly ad-free experience that was one of the main things separating Instagram from the other major social...
View ArticleHulu To Waste A Bunch Of Money Promoting ‘Seinfeld’
Hulu, which is all the bad parts of watching TV consolidated on a single glitchy website, spent an estimated $700 trillion dollars to buy the digital rights to Seinfeld, a comedy show that has not had...
View ArticleHulu’s Seinfeld Set Is Poorly Constructed And Easily Breakable
Hulu built a recreation of the comedian Jerry Seinfeld’s apartment from the 1990s television program Seinfeld inside of Milk Studios to promote the fact that they paid almost $200 million for the...
View ArticleDon’t Be Fooled By This Fake Street Art, It’s Actually Guerrilla Advertising...
To promote its new TV series Mr. Robot, USA Network rolled out a stealth marketing campaign that was crafted to look like real street art. The stenciled ads depict the show’s hoodie-wearing...
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