April 16, 2007
Clean City - No Outdoor Advertising
Imagine a modern metropolis with no outdoor advertising: no billboards, no flashing neon signs, no electronic panels with messages crawling along the bottom.
Come the new year, this city of 11 million, overwhelmed by what the authorities call visual pollution, plans to press the "delete all" button and offer its residents unimpeded views of their surroundings.
Oh yeah, and the advertisers are angry about it.
Waah.
via boinkboink
But advertising and business groups regard the legislation as injurious to society and an affront to their professions. They say that free expression will be inhibited, jobs will be lost and consumers will have less information on which to base purchasing decisions. They also argue that streets will be less safe at night with the loss of lighting from outdoor advertising. Injurious to society. Wow.
youI buy it Fes Brand Green Beans .95$; Store Brand Green Beans .65$ = I buy SB Green Beans first (and continue to do so as long as the quality is as high/the price remains lower) Fes Brand Garage Doors $950$; Ace Brand Garage Doors 600.$ = I look around and do a bit of consumer research prior to buying. My big question is always what am I paying for "brand recognition." Usually nothing. I actually like the off brand tissues with aloe vs the brand name, as the tissue is softer when I have a sore nose. If I notice an advertisement too often, it starts to piss me off. Someone who doesn't have to worry about the .30$ price difference adding up, a lazy shopper, or those people needing to plaster a designer's name on their butt for the sake of their ego probably reacts differently to advertising. Commercials and ads that are creative (usually low-key) and that make me laugh are the ones I remember brand names from in a postive light.idiotsaudience will eat it up! MonkeyFilter: some group of sub rosa cryptons trying to brainwash you into mindless automatonia MonkeyFilter: a little too snot-like for my taste Mmmmmmm, taglines. With blueberries.strawmenpeople killed by being forced to look at a billboard. Meet you back here in five.mostly absurda very complex legal issue that people didn't just pull of their asses for the hell of it. There are very good reasons for corporations to be treated legally as individual entities, even if it sometimes leads to undesirable consequences.