Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Ad Nauseam

Going Nowhere Fast

By Sarah Goodyear | | 22 Comments
This weekend’s City section of the New York Times featured a mind-blowing essay by children’s-book writer Sarah Shey about her habit of taking her one-year-old son out for drives in the city — drives with no destination or purpose in mind, in which she crossed and recrossed the Brooklyn Bridge endless times. Shey, who is […]

NYC on Alert for Motor Vehicle-Based “Noise Terrorism”

By Jason Varone | | 4 Comments
Speaking of automobile advertiser shamelessness, check out the marketing campaign that, reportedly, rolled through the Lower East Side last night at around 3:00 a.m. courtesy of Microsoft and Toyota: According to reports from residents in Lower Manhattan, a California-tagged, Zune-branded SUV rolled through Ludlow Street during the "wee hours of February 25th," but rather than […]

European Automakers Are Feeling the Heat

By Jason Varone | | 1 Comment
While the never-ending barrage of automobile advertising is as shameless as ever here in the States, European automakers are beginning to recognize that their product is perceived as harmful and destructive, not unlike cigarettes or trans-fats. The Wall Street Journal reports: Amid growing alarm over climate change and a trend in Europe toward faster, heavier […]

Ad Nauseam: Ford Mustang Shelby GT 500

By Aaron Naparstek | | 29 Comments
Vehicle: Ford Mustang Shelby GT 500 Ad title: "Germany" Created by: JWT Detroit: "We create ideas for our clients that people want to spend time with" [sic] Narrative: A bustling shipyard. Forklifts. Foghorn sounds. Dockworkers shouting out to each other in a language and accent that we quickly recognize from Hogan’s Heroes and Saving Private Ryan […]
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