nada Sara on 15 Jan 2007 05:25 pm
Advertising
We flew to Mexico on the 1st oh January on US Airways and I was so shocked to see ads on the seat-back trays that I asked John to take a photo: 
Turns out there are many other new places ads can be found. Funny thing is, mostly we don’t notice. I mean, I had to stop and think when I saw the tray covered with this image whether or not I had ever seen anything like it before. I didn’t remember having done so. But ordinarily I might have assumed I had and thought this was a normal ad space. I guess that is the point.
There are people who collect numbers about how many times per day we are inundated with ads in one form or another. There are people who then extrapolate about what that does to our self-image and, more importantly, to our consumer behavior. I am not one of those people, but it does irritate me. Well, this ad didn’t irritate me so much as I might have thought, I was just intrigued. Ads that do irritate me include google text ads that appear on almost every web site you visit these days that are meant to fool people into thinking they are content and therefore helpful. But the most irritating are commercials you see before the movie starts. I paid money to see the movie already, why should I pay to sit through ads? Anyway, an old lefty friend details, with disdain, some of these advertising approaches here: http://www.commercialalert.org/
on 15 Jan 2007 at 6:52 pm 1.Contrariano Gomez said …
Commercials before the movie starts? These are often trailers to movies far better than the one you’re about to watch. Or at least trailers edited to seem like they represent far better movies. Ah, the art of the trailer.
on 15 Jan 2007 at 7:03 pm 2.Sara said …
I like trailers. I like the animated shorts about turning off your cell phone and using the garbage bins too. I don’t like commercials for the Army or Coke or whatever else.
on 16 Jan 2007 at 12:13 am 3.Clare said …
I think there’s way too much advertising out there. It drives me crazy because I hate being marketed at, and everywhere I look there’s something I have to tune out because it’s irritating me, or trying to get me to process irrelevant information. And I hate having to tune things out.
on 17 Jan 2007 at 6:21 am 4.mark said …
In a relatively quiet theater I once started counting the commercials, loudly. I got up to about ten. Nobody else joined me and my wife was horrified, so I decided I was being a jerk.
on 16 Mar 2007 at 11:49 am 5.vozome said …
I understand your aversion with this form of advertising, but ironically criticizing it gives the brand more exposure…