Should there be restrictions on ad locations?
Is there a limit on where advertising can be displayed? The other day I saw a truck with two LCD panels, one on each side going down a highway. It caught my peripheral vision and I stared as the ad changed...right until I almost ran into the back of the truck in front of me.
They're on cars. They're on subway train walls. They're inside video games. They're placed inside movies. They're in kids' schools They're in sports stadiums.
A guy recently went on Ebay and sold the right for a company to tatoo an ad on his neck.
I expect to see a lot more of the body thing. How about surgical stiches in the shape of the IBM logo?
It's time for a healthy discourse on the subject of ad placement. What about space? Now that we have commercial satellite launches; imagine the possibilities.
I'm not generally for regulation of things, but I'd be in favor of a rule outlying advertising on a human body. That's a good start.
Posted on March 17, 2006
