It’s amazing what lengths some lobbyists will go to. Take a look at these American TV ads downplaying climate change and calling CO2 “life”.
It takes the spirit of cycling to sell cars now?
Stars before they were stars. Including Belgium’s very own Jean-Claude Vandamme.
Neat piece of culture jamming on a Stella billboard in Toronto.
What does your car say about you?
A quarter of road traffic victims were not inside a car. Great concept.
Car advertising takes itself down another notch.
Wonderful and hypnotic: using recurring elements of French urban life as the focus for [animated photo sequences][1].
[1]: http://www.milieu-urbain.com/ (Milieu(x) Urbain(s) [site language: French])
French examples of how many companies/agencies basically prostitute the environment in their advertising messages.
French examples of how many companies/agencies basically prostitute the environment in their advertising messages.
A different take on that Dove real-life campaign half the weblogs in the world linked to recently.
Another sequel. This time The truth in ad sales follows up on the classic Truth in advertising. I’m having flashbacks to eerily similar meetings now.
An African village spotted in Sint-Pieters-Leeuw via Google Earth? Just an advert being filmed.
Advertising is graffiti
Inside your car you inhale 5 times more smog than outside.
Nike The Ripper in Munich
Ad agencies in Europe draft voluntary guidelines for car advertising following fears of climate change. Nothing to get excited over.
Young model? Need exposure? Make a Gucci ad yourself, send it to a newspaper and ask them to bill Gucci directly.
Dear Mr Winterkorn, you could actually choose not to give customers what they want, or rather what your advertising makes them want.
How habit-forming advertising techniques are used to improve public health in the developing world.
How habit-forming advertising techniques are used to improve public health in the developing world.
Great article on the race to the bottom most news sites are engaged in.
Cory Doctorow on our never ending cycle of adaptation to new methods of persuasion.
Yet another reason to make sure you’re running an ad blocker.
Trump got a better deal because his team went for click-bait and the facebook algorithms love that.
Use an ad blocker, just not this one.
Even the simple emoji has been infiltrated by corporate interests. It's depressing.
If you haven't seen it yet, this segment from John Oliver about data brokers is worth a watch, particularly the magnificent ending.
A great explanation of real time bidding and how your personal information does get shared by google (and many others) with thousands of third-parties, some in China and Russia. Whatever sneaky language they use to reassure you, this is the reality of the online advertising world.
I'd never though of it that way, but all these sites pushing conspiracy theories, hoaxes and other lies are a great trap for catching and selling a gullible audience:
Jones has profited and is likely to continue to profit from his labors in the Lie Economy, the marketplace where gullible viewers are sorted from the skeptical and delivered to advertisers who make the most of their naïveté.
An interesting deep dive into how your geolocation data gets exfiltrated by advertising networks via apps on your phone and sold to, not only the highest bidder, but basically any data broker, government agency, or other organisation that can afford it.
All of this, of course, despite you setting your phone to not allow these apps to track you.
By the way, the list of apps that do this (Google Docs) contained 2 apps I had installed on my phone. I'd take a look and see what apps you should be removing from yours.
