Scottish City Takes The Fight To Urban Spam

Core77 points us to a £100,000 a year campaign by Glasgow City Council to fight the ever increasing number of fly-posters appearing in their city. Instead of ripping them down, as they’ve been doing for years, they’re adding ‘cancelled’ stickers to event posters and just painting out the brand names on others. The Evening Times reports:

It can take 45 minutes to remove just one poster and often scraps of paper are left behind. But a few seconds with a paintbrush is enough to render the ad useless until a clean-up team arrives to tackle the site.

And swathes of flyposters can be obliterated faster than new ones can be put in their place… And other workers have been issued with “cancelled” stickers which make it clear the ad has been banned by the council. And they have already had an impact on some rogue promoters who have been inundated with complaints from music fans.

Evening Times