DISQUS

Ben Yoskovitz · 3 years ago

You would think with all the health concerns people have with food that spraying messages on to it would frighten people. Even if the sprayed on text isn't harmful, there's something that feels unhealthy about it.

Our food is already plastered with enough pesticides, hormones and God-knows-what-else...I agree, we don't need it spray painted.

(As for bathroom advertising, the only time I've really enjoyed that is when they put the little TV screens in there. It makes me laugh more than anything else that you can stand at a urinal and watch TV.)

Matt Antonino · 3 years ago

I can think of an example where public bathrooms were used perfectly though: Half.com When they started the advertisements on the urinal puck things "Don't piss away your money, go to half.com" I mean WOW that's powerful advertising!!! In general, I agree. Food idea is terrible. At least on the food. On the McDonalds cup is one thing - on the pringles. Ew.

David Rachford · 3 years ago

John,
Unbelievable...I cant believe you haven't seen www.chesterthecheetoscheetasblog.com yet....

I can imagine the guys in the food lab..."Harry, look, I tweaked the laserjet to spray blue dye #5 on the chips, not just the package lids...we can print advertisment on the chips too!"

This will soon backfire when the obesity lawyers require each chip to say: "Warning, this chip contains 2g of transfat which will harden your arteries and cause an immeadiate feeling of regret for making poor dietary decisions, followed by a protracted stay in a cardiovascular rehab following a quintuple bypass."

I can think of a few other places advertisements don't belong.... like comments & trackbacks to blog posts - I keep getting hit by sammers for calias etc... I think I'll check your blog tools for a remedy.

Dave

Jason Clegg · 3 years ago

I have to agree with Ben (above) - Sometimes bathroom advertising can be quite entertaining. I think the experience of reading an ad at the urinal is akin to reading the cereal box during one's morning stupor. And if the ad funds help keep a public restroom clean, I'm all for it!

Michael Wagner · 3 years ago

I'm not so sure I agree based on my consumer sampling. Of course, my sampling is limited to my wild and crazy household that looks more like a scene from Walton's Mountain.

Four generations here laugh out loud at the jokes on the Pringles. They especially have enjoyed them on the first two camping trips of the season.

Fun posting, thanks for adding the the conversations!

Brian Kolstad · 3 years ago

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?st...

It seems that sinister things are afoot with Cheetos...

Ed Kohler · 3 years ago

I think bottom of a coffee cup ads are fine. A good campaign would use a variety of different ads leading to a discussion of the different ads among people sitting around Starbucks or whatever coffee shop did it. I could see a rainbow of Apple logos on the bottom of coffee cups getting some serious buzz (pun intended).

Call Cruncher · 3 years ago

I also have enjoyed the ads in bathrooms. I thought it was a little odd at first, but it is a good place to get peoples attention. The spray on the chips though does make me not want to eat them. Thanks for the post!