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Someone, probably OWS (Occupy Wall Street) related, commandeered a few phone booth ad displays. and leads to this link

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Interview with a hoaxster: How I fooled the Daily Mail with fake pic

The snow photo started as a joke between friends, because we were fed up with people getting excited over a little flutter of snow, so we were posting old photos of deep snow and saying it was this week in … Continue reading

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File this under stealth advertising

I’ve mentioned advertising which co-ops something else,  such as a police recruitment campaign which co-ops the techniques of illegal (thus, anti-police) graffiti art. Co-optation is stealing the techniques from another in spite of philosophical differences. And then there are ads which go far beyond … Continue reading

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Popular by design

This has been the week for hoaxes!  I reported a few days about about the hoax study about Internet Explorer users having lower IQ scores than normal and discussed media pranks in general.  Now  we have reports of companies which … Continue reading

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“He’s a pain. A real pain in the ass.”

One thing I’m interested in, in the area of consumer behavior, is consumer mis-behavior.  By studying misbehavior I feel that we can come to better understand the process of how people respond to commercial (as in business, not ad)  messages and also how people … Continue reading

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