Banksy, why you got to make me feel so bad about my job.

[TechS]

Applies to banner ads?

*FUCK noticed someone posted before me, my image is larger and better quality tho so fuck you, my bad.

 

[amateursurgeon]

This is a manifesto to encourage defacement of outdoor advertising (billboards). Personally, I fucking hate outdoor advertising, and used to deface it regularly when I lived in Bristol. The stuff in an abomination.

I'm not alone in this:

I have a passion for landscape, and I have never seen one improved by a billboard. Where every prospect pleases, man is at his vilest when he erects a billboard. When I retire from Madison Avenue, I am going to start a secret society of masked vigilantes who will travel around the world on silent motor bikes, chopping down posters at the dark of the moon. How many juries will convict us when we are caught in these acts of beneficent citizenship?

-David Ogilvy, 1963

 

[-joe-]

This is a manifesto to encourage defacement of outdoor advertising (billboards). Personally, I fucking hate outdoor advertising, and used to deface it regularly when I lived in Bristol. The stuff in an abomination.

I'm not alone in this:

Plus, what a gigantic waste of fucking money. Motorway ads run for about £0.22 CPM+, for an ad where all your customers are driving past at 70MPH.

 

[amateursurgeon]

Plus, what a gigantic waste of fucking money. Motorway ads run for about £0.22 CPM+, for an ad where all your customers are driving past at 70MPH.

Unfortunately, it's effective. In an act of amazing hypocrisy, I used to spam the shit out of the city with flyposters whenever I was promoting a music event. It worked like crazy.


(this was actually one of my biggest problems with it - 40ft billboard of some photoshopped model telling your girlfriend she wasn't thin enough = acceptable, small poster advertising a music event = criminal damage)

 

[JarredLv]

Stupid fucking logic. Any advert that is in public space is yours to do with? Just because you have no choice if you see it or not? Seriously? Billboards are private property on private property. Deal with it.