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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/…

Plugged in: how outdoor advertising and surveillance technology promote commercial behaviours -...

In this blog, part of the Bad Publicity series, we draw on Dr Thomas Dekeyser’s 2018 essay ‘The material geographies of advertising’ to understand how surveillance technologies enable outdoor...

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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.
Brandalism@BrandalismUK16 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
Parody Toyota billboard in Brighton, UK

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Brandalism@BrandalismUK16 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
Parody Toyota billboard in Brighton, UK

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These #BoycottQatar2022 posters have started appearing on trains recently.
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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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"Make your workplace better, Unionize" Seen in the subway in Greenpoint, Brooklyn
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

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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"All Cats Are Beautiful" Unauthorized bus stop posters seen around Portland, Oregon
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

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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⚡ 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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Cherishing some good news: my first paper on subvertising has been published in @SocietyandSpace. Draws on ethnography to offer intro to illegal interventions into ad spaces. Via Agamben, shows necessity of negation & destitution for urban politics. journals.sagepub.com/eprint/…

Dismantling the advertising city: Subvertising and the urban commons to come - Thomas Dekeyser, 2021

Subvertising, a portmanteau for ‘subverting advertising’, is the illicit practice of intervening into urban advertising space, from graffiti scribbles and remov...

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"Save on heating bills by constantly waving a flag" Billboard improvement in Southampton, UK by Slave Nation
"Save on heating bills by constantly waving a flag... SN'22 (A)" painted on a white billboard and a person is walking past

ALT "Save on heating bills by constantly waving a flag... SN'22 (A)" painted on a white billboard and a person is walking past

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Corrected police ad spotted in Brighton, UK
Police bus stop at with the word KNOB stuck on it so the message reads "I joined ax an officer & BECAME A KNOB"

ALT Police bus stop at with the word KNOB stuck on it so the message reads "I joined ax an officer & BECAME A KNOB"

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⚡️Call out for a week of action to expose airlines for their harmful and greenwash advertising ⚡️Join us to and take action to #banfossilads @brandalism subvertisers-international.n…
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Seen in Kent have you felt the melt? of the polar ice caps Add description ipcc.ch/report/sixth-assessm… #brandalism
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Foka Wolf@fokawolf28 Jun 2022
Let’s start this conversation… Profits are going up and wages are going down. How the fuck was min wage £6 an hour 20 years ago and now it’s £10? The price of a freddo has doubled in that time 🐸
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"This ad uses the same electricity as three average households. Global heating machine" Seen on an electronic ad in Bethnal Green, London
"This ad uses the same electricity as three average households. Global heating machine" written on an electronic ad with white spray paint

ALT "This ad uses the same electricity as three average households. Global heating machine" written on an electronic ad with white spray paint

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Brandalism@BrandalismUK23 May 2022
[1] "We're squeezing our workforce for every last drop of North Sea Oil." Ahead of the @Shell AGM, we installed these billboards across Aberdeeen, the oil capital of Europe, in solidarity with rig workers demanding better pay + conditions. #JustTransition
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Hä @polizeiberlin was geht?
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Seen in Kent Always remember our extinction is forever Resist Climate Collapse reclaimfinance.org/site/wp-c… #brandalism
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Brandalism@BrandalismUK4 May 2022
"See the smaller picture" says @Barclays, Europe's number 1 funder of fossil fuels 🤦‍♂️ Ahead of the bank's AGM in Manchester today, we've replaced those #Barclays ads with artworks showing the bigger picture of deforestation + climate breakdown #DefundClimateChaos #FossilBanks
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Adjackers@AdJackers21 Apr 2022
Freedom for Julian Assange billboard takeover in Newmarket, QLD. #FreeAssange #JournalismIsNotACrime
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