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Buy Nothing Day: Adbusters' role in the global Occupy movement - World Politics - World. The plan, says Adbusters co-founder Kalle Lasn, is to stretch it out and turn it into a Buy Nothing Christmas.

Buy Nothing Day: Adbusters' role in the global Occupy movement - World Politics - World

He wants us to bypass the tinsel, the tree and the tat and go cold turkey on consumerism for the whole festive period. "We are," he says, "going to try and take back our Christmas season from the commercial forces that have hijacked it. " If you think this sounds like the rantings of a deluded Bolshevik, it's worth noting a few things about Lasn and his cohorts at Adbusters, who have been producing the bi-monthly magazine from their Vancouver office since 1989. Lasn, an Estonia-born, former high-flyer in the advertising industry, now pushing 70, started Adbusters as an antidote to corporate greed, and what he saw as an aggressive pro-consumerist message that was being rammed down our throats. "We felt back then that there was a dark side to consumerism but no one ever talked about it," he says.

Lasn's background in advertising shows. Buynothingday.co.uk. 20 creative guerilla marketing campaigns - StumbleUpon. We are so overwhelmed with advertising everywhere that it becomes hard for creative agencies to make ads that stand out.

20 creative guerilla marketing campaigns - StumbleUpon

Guerilla advertising is a great way to make unusual, surrealistic visuals and situations that passers by will remember. Here is a selection. 1. Superette – Short shorts The bench that turns you into a walking advertisement if you are wearing short shorts. 2. Pretty clever, the urinal that stands out. 3. Seen in New York, how would you not go grab a coffee there? 4. I would be curious to know how many people actually notice this ad. 5. Enter the shark, a cool optical illusion for this National Geographic ad on a bus. 6. TateShots: Ryan Gander, Locked Room Scenario. Project Re: Brief by Google. The Overview "Hilltop" (1971) - Harvey Gabor, Art Director "Forty years ago Bill Backer and myself had a wish, and that was to buy the world a Coke.

Project Re: Brief by Google

I am honored to have lived long enough to see that wish become a reality. " — Harvey Gabor This year, we partnered with Coca-Cola and Harvey Gabor to re-imagine "Hilltop" for the digital age. See how a wish made in 1971 was brought to life for today’s generation. Watch the film The Tech The Concept Harvey’s re-imagined ad enables users to actually ‘buy the world a Coke’ from their computer or phone, and connect with someone on the other side of the world through the magic of display advertising. Desktop Mobile Real-Life Social Networking The world is closer than ever before.