Advertising, ad campaigns, ad agencies, and the people that make it happen

Interesting piece in Spiegel online about German anti-ad activists “kidnapping” parts of billboards and posters. The people responsible say their aim is to reappropriate commercialized public space! There’s a collection of some of their efforts here. It would seem that “urban artists” are responding in kind to the efforts of “guerrilla marketers.” A spill over effect is happening in France with the “Anti-Advertizing Commando” movement scrawling “Shut Up” on billboards in Paris and other major French towns. Other groups include “Resistance Against Advertising Violence” and “StopAds.” Maybe they need a “Department of Advertising Security.” There’s a few ex-administration employees that might be up for the job!

WE have to fight Ad Terrorists over there, before they hit us over here!