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31 Jan 2022
If anyone's interested in reading about subvertising, I wrote a whole PhD about it, including this article which talks about the history, politics and imaginations of subvertising. Open access here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf…
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8 Aug 2023
The third installment in our guest blog series, Bad Publicity, is now available to read 🙌
We review the work of @ThomasDekeyser to understand how surveillance tech integrates outdoor advertising into the urban environment to push us towards consumption.
adfreecities.org.uk/2023/08/…
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16 Jan 2023
As someone who used to work as an advertising strategist for Toyota (at Saatchi & Saatchi), and left the job to do a PhD on subvertising, I'd give a lot of money to sit in on the internal crisis meetings right now.
16 Jan 2023
Subvertising teams across Europe have taken aim at #Toyota and #BMW for misleading adverts and anti-climate lobbying. 400 car billboards have been hacked and replaced in 14 cities. ✊
brandalism.ch/projects/toyot…
#BeyondZero #BanFossilAds #BrusselsMotorShow / 1
ALT Parody Toyota billboard in Brighton, UK
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16 Jan 2023
Subvertising teams across Europe have taken aim at #Toyota and #BMW for misleading adverts and anti-climate lobbying. 400 car billboards have been hacked and replaced in 14 cities. ✊
brandalism.ch/projects/toyot…
#BeyondZero #BanFossilAds #BrusselsMotorShow / 1
ALT Parody Toyota billboard in Brighton, UK
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17 Jan 2023
I suspect this may attract some of the neighbourhood's subvertisers. x.com/davidrkadler/status/16…
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17 Nov 2022
These #BoycottQatar2022 posters have started appearing on trains recently.
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16 Nov 2022
"a spectacular fire has broken out in Schaerbeek, Brussels. No casualties to mourn."
🔥🔥🔥 subvertising as part of the 'ZAP games' (zapgames.net/) currently taking place in Brussels.
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21 Oct 2022
Seen in South London
Three Prime Ministers in Three Months
Deary, Deary Me!
#GeneralElectionNow
The Meaning Transformation Guild adhers to Reithian principles:
please only look closely after the watershed.
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18 Oct 2022
"shot on iphone"
anti-police brutality poster spotted on NY advertising space.
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9 Oct 2022
Graffiti on billboard in Iran:
“We are no longer scared, we will fight you.”
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1 Oct 2022
"Make your workplace better, Unionize"
Seen in the subway in Greenpoint, Brooklyn
ALT Train platform ad for company called Envoy with two office workers walking to each other and the word UNIONIZE written on it with black marker and a hammer and sickle
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30 Sep 2022
why do they insist on making subvertisers' lives so easy? like, it's literally the world's top plastic polluter?!
The #COP27 Presidency announces The @CocaCola Company as a Supporting Sponsor to COP27. For more information: bit.ly/3dRclXf
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28 Sep 2022
"All Cats Are Beautiful"
Unauthorized bus stop posters seen around Portland, Oregon
ALT Numerous multicolour stencils of cats and and words "All Cats Are Beautiful"In a bus stop poster frame
ALT Numerous multicolour stencils of cats and and words "All Cats Are Beautiful"In a bus stop poster frame
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26 Sep 2022
Massive subvertising action by @dontpayuk today on the London Underground. 100s of posters were installed to say it loud and clear: we're not paying for their profits.
ALT 4 Posters installed above seats inside London tube. Posters read: "don't pay. If you can't afford your energy bills: pledge to strike."
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22 Sep 2022
The moment when Iran protesters rip down a billboard of Khamenei, the 'supreme leader' of Iran.
They've been protesting since Mahsa Amini was killed by the 'hijab enforcement patrols'.
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⚡ Groups across Europe & the UK have put up hundreds of spoof adverts to denounce the climate impact of airline ads & airport expansion
If you are in the UK, ask your local authority to #BanFossilAds 👉action.wearepossible.org/pag…
Artwork by Lindsay Grime spotted in London
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20 Sep 2022
There's genuine beauty in a vandalised digital advertising screen.
ALT close-up of vandalised digital advertising screen in london
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20 Sep 2022
just typed the link on the sticker and it takes me to this online random game? Why is that sticker there? Why does it say 'signed: fragments'?
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16 Sep 2022
Why pin 'missing' posters onto neighbourhood trees when you can use just use the local ad spaces?
(also, call my friend if you've actually seen this dog in Berlin)
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