A view of the homeless from the inside out
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no, that's still outdoor advertising for them. they just don't have any indoors to go to.
Posted by: dl | Mar 9, 2007 11:39:32 AM
Nice find Tim! PSA ads are always welcome. Nice to see top creative and OOH ad servers walking the walk of PS!
Posted by: arthur | Mar 9, 2007 11:51:06 AM
My first impression was that it was for a widescreen or projection TV maker. I'm not sad for the homeless because they don't have TV, and yes, I get the agency's point.
Posted by: Gregory Solman | Mar 9, 2007 12:15:03 PM
That ad is only talking to adpeople. Or least, it's only talking to people who know that those billboards are called "outdoor ads".
Here's the same idea but much better, imho. A barkbench ad reads "Bed", a shoppingcart ad reads "closet". Same message.
http://commercial-archive.com/507.php
Posted by: Dabitch | Mar 9, 2007 6:15:42 PM
"barkbench" tsss. Never post from the pub.
Posted by: Dabitch | Mar 9, 2007 6:47:08 PM
For some, this is known as scam advertising...
While trying to retrieve the URL: http://www.delhihomeless.org/
The following error was encountered:
Unable to determine IP address from host name for www.delhihomeless.org
The dnsserver returned:
Name Error: The domain name does not exist.
This means that:
Posted by: someoneinindia | Mar 10, 2007 2:12:05 AM
...the ad never existed. I keep noticing that people comment as much on ads of the word (even on real campaigns like this one: http://adsoftheworld.com/media/print/dove_define_shine_control_gel_scooby_doo ) - have they had a problem with a lot of scam ads? Or is it simply that spec ads aren't clearly labelled?
Posted by: Dabitch | Mar 10, 2007 6:08:28 AM
Great info, thanks a lot!!! I wish I will have such a writing skills.
Posted by: PODO | May 19, 2007 1:39:45 PM
