Comments on: Ad Industry To Get Call To Action It Deserves http://www.psfk.com/2006/12/ad_industry_to_.html Ideas & Trends Mon, 23 Nov 2009 02:38:31 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Floyd Hayes http://www.psfk.com/2006/12/ad_industry_to_.html/comment-page-1#comment-970 Floyd Hayes Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-970 <p>"Imagine a modern metropolis with no outdoor advertising: no billboards, no flashing neon signs, no electronic panels with messages crawling along the bottom..."</p> <p>It would be dull as f*ck. I hate terrible ads/eyesores as much as the next person. </p> <p>However, I love walking round NYC look up at the huge painted building sides. If the ads are creative, witty, interesting, sexy, colorful and relevant they enhance a city IMHO.</p> <p>Mind you I also adore grafitti which is of course hideous vandalism, so what would I know?</p> <p>Maybe I just like LOTS of visual stimulation and information, that's why I live in cities and not in the Shetland Islands...</p> “Imagine a modern metropolis with no outdoor advertising: no billboards, no flashing neon signs, no electronic panels with messages crawling along the bottom…”

It would be dull as f*ck. I hate terrible ads/eyesores as much as the next person.

However, I love walking round NYC look up at the huge painted building sides. If the ads are creative, witty, interesting, sexy, colorful and relevant they enhance a city IMHO.

Mind you I also adore grafitti which is of course hideous vandalism, so what would I know?

Maybe I just like LOTS of visual stimulation and information, that’s why I live in cities and not in the Shetland Islands…

]]> By: Piers Fawkes http://www.psfk.com/2006/12/ad_industry_to_.html/comment-page-1#comment-971 Piers Fawkes Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-971 <p>I see your point, Floyd. I'm not an advocate for a ban on advertising - I just think the ad industry, esp in Sao Paulo apparently, has overstepped its mark as it tries to ambush our life. Shouldn't there be sane level of marketing, not an insane one?</p> I see your point, Floyd. I’m not an advocate for a ban on advertising – I just think the ad industry, esp in Sao Paulo apparently, has overstepped its mark as it tries to ambush our life. Shouldn’t there be sane level of marketing, not an insane one?

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