Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Ad Nauseam

IBM Pitches Congestion Pricing to Middle America

By Brad Aaron | | 8 Comments
This IBM ad, now airing during NFL playoff games, is definitely aimed at the motoring set. More remarkable than its windshield perspective, though, is that it’s being used to introduce the concept of congestion pricing to sports-obsessed Americans, and it doesn’t get more mainstream than that. Instead of encouraging people to get out of their […]

Buy One Albatross, Get One Free!

By Ben Fried | | 14 Comments
Detroit’s customer incentives have had an air of desperation for a while. With Big Three bankruptcy looking more likely every day, some dealers — like this one in Pembroke Pines, Florida — are venturing into liquidation sale territory (and then some). You read that right: Two Dodge Rams for the price of one. Tow the […]

Ad Nauseam: Spare the Toll, Save the Carmaker

By Brad Aaron | | 5 Comments
Yesterday we noted the auto-centric bias in local media coverage of an expected Ravitch Commission proposal to toll East River bridges as one source of revenue for the cash-strapped MTA. In perusing said coverage, we couldn’t help but notice a second common element. See if you can guess what it is. After the jump: score […]

Ped-Bike Mockery Flops for 7-Term House Incumbent

By Ben Fried | | 10 Comments
The National Republican Congressional Committee ran this ad against Democratic challenger Kathy Dahlkemper in the race for Pennsylvania’s third congressional district. It hits a few Gingrichian notes on how to address the country’s energy problems before the announcer tells us incredulously: Dahlkemper’s wacky solution? She said we should make personal sacrifices, such as walking places […]

Cartoon Tuesday: Cycling = Healthy, Pt. 2

By Brad Aaron | | 3 Comments
Here’s another installment in the "cycling is good for you" series, this time from New York insurer Emblem Health. In this animated ad, a Brooklyn bike commuter pedals across a bridge toward Manhattan, explaining that cycling affords him the same freedom he enjoys from his health care coverage. And to further identify with the target […]

Kaiser Permanente: Cycling = Healthy

By Brad Aaron | | 8 Comments
With a dreary weekend on tap, weather-wise, we leave you with this uplifting ad from health care giant Kaiser Permanente. While we’ve seen bikes used to market everything from banks to beer, the linkage of cycling — and walking, and skateboarding, and transit use — to physical well-being is especially compelling. Who knows, maybe the […]
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