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: air tray ad

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/