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> any advertisement on a private not otherwise restricted vehicle would be the providence of the state DMV ??? The state DMV neither writes nor enforces laws.
Are there any government bodies between city and state level that have the power to do this? In CA, US for example. Not a quiz.
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Lots of places in America have severe restrictions on advertising. Hilton Head, South Carolina; and along the Garden State Parkway in New Jersey leap to mind. I think along some of the toll roads in Houston this is also true (It's been a while, I might be remembering that wrong). Billboards are banned in downtown Chicago, so big companies rent storefronts in tourist areas and put in stores that are not supposed to ma…
I live in downtown Chicago and I find the lack of billboards everywhere refreshing. Michigan Avenue has very few advertisements with the exception of unintrusive storefront signs.
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Lots of places in America have severe restrictions on advertising. Hilton Head, South Carolina; and along the Garden State Parkway in New Jersey leap to mind. I think along some of the toll roads in Houston this is also true (It's been a while, I might be remembering that wrong). Billboards are banned in downtown Chicago, so big companies rent storefronts in tourist areas and put in stores that are not supposed to ma…
I live in downtown Chicago and I find the lack of billboards everywhere refreshing. Michigan Avenue has very few advertisements with the exception of unintrusive storefront signs.
It's kind of an open secret that the city of Santa Barbara (CA, US) has banned several forms of public outdoor advertising: we have no billboards, no promotional posters, no taxi toppers... It's delightful, and very high on my list of reasons why I enjoy living here. Every time I leave I'm reminded how noisy space is when it's filled with advertisements. I wholeheartedly recommend others advocate for similar policies…
I wish we had that on the tube in London. Instead, you ride an escalator and see upwards of 20-maybe 30 video ads on the way. And that's before a marketing firm commissions the redesign of a tunnel so an entire stretch of walkway is 100% ad, like a shitty Disney ride. Or you arrive to one of the big terminals and gigantic screens are blasting even more ads at you. This is, of course, after you spend 40+ minutes on a…
i.e. For about 10p on a bus ticket or 20-30 on a tube ticket it could just be gone.
I made a post just recently about this - unfortunately public transport is lowest common denominator so this can't happen.
Banning ads would be nice, but that's already old thinking. The growth of the influencer model, advertorials/newsvertising, and individual personality as brand experience means that even if all public ads were banned, brands would just be paying thousands of micro-influencers for IRL mentions, tracked silently through the mic on your phone. When you take the influencer thing to it's logical conclusion (everyone is a…
That's just a reason to also ban "influencing". Few other ways of advertising damage the basic fabric of society - interpersonal trust - as badly as influencers.
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The question is, if you got rid of advertising, how do the customers find out about a new product from a new business?
Newspapers, magazines etc. Basically however they want.
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Newspapers, magazines etc. Basically however they want.
But we don't want to spend our time researching possible new products. Empirically, we just keep buying the same thing until disturbed by some outside force.
It's kind of an open secret that the city of Santa Barbara (CA, US) has banned several forms of public outdoor advertising: we have no billboards, no promotional posters, no taxi toppers... It's delightful, and very high on my list of reasons why I enjoy living here. Every time I leave I'm reminded how noisy space is when it's filled with advertisements. I wholeheartedly recommend others advocate for similar policies…
Bit of a hijack but are you still working? I’ve been in LA for 15 years and the plan is to move to SB once we no longer need to work. I love everything about the area (I just did a 5 personal retreat at Lake Cachuma) but job optionality is low. I’ll be back on Saturday and can’t wait for the peace, calm and beauty.
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I wish we had that on the tube in London. Instead, you ride an escalator and see upwards of 20-maybe 30 video ads on the way. And that's before a marketing firm commissions the redesign of a tunnel so an entire stretch of walkway is 100% ad, like a shitty Disney ride. Or you arrive to one of the big terminals and gigantic screens are blasting even more ads at you. This is, of course, after you spend 40+ minutes on a…
Tube adverts also tend to play on people’s insecurities only making it worse
Half the adverts are basically essays to keep people interested when they can't use their phone.
My wife did her PhD in out-of-home media (which very much included billboards). I have yet to find a more rabid opponent to out-of-home advertising (in general) and billboards (in particular), and she will explain why it is evil at the drop of the proverbial hat... As an amateur artist she will start with visual pollution and then veer into psychological damage... /grin
Curious: does she have an argument for why in-home advertising is good, or is it just that she has not studied it?