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Flogos: Advertising in the sky

SakebombSakebomb Registered User regular
edited May 2008 in Debate and/or Discourse
Is putting corporate logos in the clouds taking marketing too far?

I am imagining driving out to the hills to take breathtaking snaphosts of the city skyline....then having to photoshop out the Starbucks and Microsoft shaped clouds later.

Excuse the pun, but I seriously hope this dosent take off.

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  • Fuzzy Cumulonimbus CloudFuzzy Cumulonimbus Cloud Registered User regular
    edited May 2008
    No, that seems pretty cool!

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  • mastmanmastman Registered User regular
    edited May 2008
    *buys machine*

    *fills sky with cloud penises*

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  • SakebombSakebomb Registered User regular
    edited May 2008
    mastman wrote: »
    *buys machine*

    *fills sky with cloud penises*

    Nice quick thinking there!
    I like it8-)

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  • ScooterScooter Registered User regular
    edited May 2008
    Can they do colored foam? That would be something to see.

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  • KalTorakKalTorak One way or another, they all end up in the Undercity.Registered User regular
    edited May 2008
    They need to put the last panel of this in the sky.

    (possibly NSFW, it's PBF)
    http://pbfcomics.com/archive_b/PBF053-Angels_Caught.jpg

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  • MalkorMalkor Registered User regular
    edited May 2008
    "I don't see them causing any real problems. Occasionally up there in the air you run into balloons. The first time I encountered one, I didn't even see it I just heard a bang and thought something had exploded in the aeroplane.

    heh.

    I think this is pretty cool, but I also immediately thought of floating wangs and boobies.

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  • BamaBama Registered User regular
    edited May 2008
    KalTorak wrote: »
    They need to put the last panel of this in the sky.

    (possibly NSFW, it's PBF)
    FYI, when you put something in spoiler tags it still gets loaded/cached. Please link (potentially) NSFW content.

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  • NerissaNerissa Registered User regular
    edited May 2008
    Honestly, it's no worse than banners towed by planes or blimps or whatever... just another gimmick for advertising at special events.

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  • CantidoCantido Registered User regular
    edited May 2008
    Can this wait until Obama is President? I don't want dead fetus clouds.

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  • ScooterScooter Registered User regular
    edited May 2008
    Nerissa wrote: »
    Honestly, it's no worse than banners towed by planes or blimps or whatever... just another gimmick for advertising at special events.



    Basically sounds like balloons that don't leave plastic all over the place. At $3,500 per machine a day and 4-6 foot sizes I doubt companies are going to be pumping these out 24/7 over the Rockies or something.

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  • NerissaNerissa Registered User regular
    edited May 2008
    Everyone (including both articles) keeps calling them clouds. They aren't. The machine the guy is talking about makes shapes 6' across. Once you get up past about 100 m, they aren't going to be recognizable anyway due to their size.

    Great for attracting attention or entertaining people at a sporting event, but really not much of an impact on the skyline, I suspect.

    And omg, the comments at the end of the one article... wtf, this guy should be sued and jailed?

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  • One Thousand CablesOne Thousand Cables An absence of thought Registered User regular
    edited May 2008
    mastman wrote: »
    *buys machine*

    *fills sky with cloud penises*

    Quick, someone rent one out for PAX

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