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but what about the girth?
Campbell's Brags About Its Noodle Length
Campbell's wants you to know it packs 32 feet of noodles inside every can, and it's paid for a Times Square billboard to teach that fact to you, AdAge reports. More » -
advertising
50 Cool Billboards
Most billboards are either ugly jumbles of giant text, or unfortunately memorable things like this. Here's a list of 50 mostly cool ones (we think the Texas one is 'shopped, and the anti-American one can suck it). Hey, if you're gonna advertise on a billboard, you may as well make it entertaining. More » -
funny
When Billboards Collide
It's funny when something accidental happens in advertising, like when billboards that shouldn't be next to each other are put up. We always suspected the placement of religious billboards are intentional, but we're really not sure about Cat Jesus. Yes, Cat Jesus.
"15 Billboards That Don't Belong Next To Each Other" [BuzzFeed]
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activism
Art Vigilantes Paint Over 120 Illegal Billboards In NYC
Last Saturday, ads-in-public-spaces activist Jordan Seiler spearheaded NYSAT, or New York Street Advertising Takeover, where teams of artists, videographers and activists replaced 120 unregistered billboard advertisements throughout the city with original art installations.
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urban blight
LA Has 4,000 Illegal Billboards, But City Looks On Helplessly
In 2002, LA banned any new billboards from going up in the city. Since then, an estimated four thousand have been put up by advertising companies who have ignored the law, which obviously the city's billboard inspectors—"a tiny, and some say incredibly inept, group"—have never bothered to enforce.
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grafitti
King of Jews, King of Brews
He walked on water, He cured the festering and the blind, He turned water into wine. But after a hard day on the cross, even the King of Kings needed a frosty cold one. But two thousand years later, theologians still wrestle with a truly massive question: what would Jesus drink? More » -
billboards
11 Things to Be Learned From Country Billboards
His eyeballs on sabbatical from ocular saturation in the frenzied consumerism of modern day civilization, John over at American Copywriter decided to go on a long, relaxing drive through the barren heartland of America. To daydream while golden fields of wheat oscillated in the summer breeze! Where the only advertisements were the brand marks on the flanks of lowing cows! More » -
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The Broader Side of Billboards
John January over at American Copywriter posted an amusing series of musings he had while driving across the Midwest and observing the billboards dotting the road. A choice selection: More » -
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advertising
McDonald's Spicy Chicken Gets Hosed
McDonald's pulled a "guerilla" stunt to promote its new spicy chicken sandwich. As shown, a boring billboard was sprayed down with by a fireman with a hose from a fire truck. More » -
billboards
Graffiti Artists Buff The Man's Billboards
Buffing is when graffiti artist's work gets scrubbed over by The Man. Stieg point us to what happens when a street artist buffs The Man back, in this case, a billboard in the Red Hook borough of Brooklyn. The only tools required were a roller, paint and an a roller extension. More »
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