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Sony’s PlayStation Portable has launched an outdoor advertising campaign in major cities such as San Francisco, Miami, and New York, paying building owners to paint ads directly onto outdoor walls, the Washington Post reports. It’s part of a growing trend in which brands such as Time magazine have begun to use street art to get the word out and generate buzz.
A Sony spokesman said that the company’s campaign is geared toward what they call the urban nomad: “consumers who are enjoying their entertainment on-the-go in an artistic and creative way.
But the blurred lines between street art/advertising/graffiti has led to at least one artist being detained by police in Chiago last year while spray-painting over a paid graffiti ad for Axe deoderant, the article says.
Radio stations in the U.K. reacted with outrage when they learned of a report by researchers from the University of the West of England which accused them of promoting excessive drinking.
The study looked at 1,200 hours of radio output,…
General Motors posted sales of 308,817 vehicles in August. That’s a drop of 20 percent from August of last year - but 31 percent better than July.
In order to boost sales as much as possible during a time when…
A new digital out-of-home network to reach golfers is launching to 100 retail locations in the next two months. The network will be available in Dunham’s Sporting Goods, Golf Etc., Golf USA, Pro Golf, and ParMasters, among others.
Fox says that viewers’ attention to commercials is higher when fewer commercials are aired. The revelation comes as a result of testing the network has done for its freshman thriller, Fringe, which will premiere Sept. 9 with limited commercials and shorter…
Worldwide sales of mobile phones will reach 1.28 billion units in 2008 - up from 1.15 billion units in 2007 - an 11 percent increase from last year, according to Gartner, Inc - (via MarketingCharts).
While the mobile phone market is poised for…
Consumers in all income segments are cutting back spending, and doing so to a greater extent recently than at the beginning of the second quarter, according to a comScore study examining changes in consumer attitudes and perceptions about the U.S. economy…
