Pro vegetarian group Vegas Veg*, put up these billboards in Las Vegas.

Photo by R. Schmidt who also adds a great quote:

“If slaughterhouses had glass walls,
everyone would be vegetarian.”
Paul McCartney and Linda McCartney

This is a great billboard. A simple but powerful message asking: “Why love one but eat the other?”. The billboard was put up by pro vegetarian group, Vegas Veg* who are based in of all places…Las Vegas, Nevada.

Yes that’s right. Who would have thought Vegas was a hot bed of pro vegetarianism amidst all that gambling and other entertainment. It certainly is refreshingly different to see a sign like this in Las Vegas rather than the usual obvious community service billboards one might expect.

Weblinks:

• vegasveg.com
• chooseveg.com
• mercyforanimals.org

 Top Gear has a new home on Channel NINE

Australian television viewers may have noticed the new series of  Top Gear has shifted from SBS to Channel NINE. To celebrate this, Channel NINE has erected billboards to remind dedicated viewers to tune in to the right channel.

In the former SBS 7:30 time slot now is Mythbusters.

What next to move to a commercial station then? Perhaps the very brave Bear Grylls, Man versus Wild will be heading to the deserts of Channel 7? God help us!

If you haven’t noticed recently, people are buying and selling stuff online… yes, it’s true I tell you. The Trading Post has wound up its old fashioned printed edition in October 2009 and now only exists as an online format. Keen to promote itself in the real world, The Trading Post has plastered many billboards and bus shelters all over Australia with the funny goat and frog campaign, “bargain” and “reckon” along with a series of corresponding television adverts. One unusual thing about the billboards, is they don’t mention any website address to goto…a bit strange for an online business. Did they forget about this perhaps? Or are they expecting people to “google it”? Well lets hope they are not redirected to EBay Australia when they do (ahh forget I said that). With a large advertising budget at stake, let’s hope the owner of The Trading Post, Telstra subsidiary Sensis, makes good into the online world of buy and sell.

Below: One of The Trading Post television adverts. Perhaps inspired by the classic 1955 Warner Bros Merrie Melodies episode, One Froggy Evening:

Streets ice cream stalwart, Golden Gaytime is receiving plenty of summer promotion with many of these mini bus shelter billboards being… umm erected around the place. The catch phrase of “It’s hard to have a Gaytime on your own!” continues to be used, even though it’s quite old. This ice cream and promotion remains nearly unchanged for many years and has stood the test of time yet still manages to get a few laughs with its camp humour. Mr Humphries of Are You Being Served fame would be delighted to get his tongue around one of these…oops.

Golden Gaytime website: http://goldengaytime.com.au

Miss me yet? Hell yes, we want ya back George.

This incredible billboard was spotted near the Twin Cities MN featuring ex US president George W. Bush with the caption of “Miss me yet?”. The question of who would put up a such a crazy sign apparently seems to be a group of disgruntled small businessmen who are not happy with current Washington economic policies.

Who knows? Maybe it was ex president, George W. “told ya so” Bush himself  paid for it.

Photo by wstera2

The flipside: Tony Blair and John Howard are also greatly missed.

Above: The original sign. NAB was asking for trouble when they put this up. Too many negative words.

However, I suspect the sign below is what really comes to mind for most people when signing up to a new bank…

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Australia’s premier business newspaper, Financial Review has taken to advertising on bus stand billboards with the slogan of:

 ”The daily habit of successful people“.

I suspect this has been adapted from the Stephen R. Covey best seller book:  The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People.

I wish them success with their old fashioned paper and ink publication. Interestingly, there is no mention of their website on the advert, but for those interested, here it is:

Website: www.afr.com

Never mix up your false teeth again with Dymo labels

Dymo gets the message across with this “his” and “hers” labelled false teeth haha! Could also double as a sign for dental health and keeping your own teeth I guess.

Dymo Australian website: www.dymo.com.au

Join what and why? What is this all about?

You may have seen these billboards and shopping centre signs about the place recently and just wonder what it’s all about.

Well, it’s not exactly a cable TV network if you think that, but look carefully and see the “Fernwood” logo. Fernwood is in fact a chain of Australian women’s health and fitness clubs and the “For fox sake…” is all part of the “Find your inner fox” campaign.

Which marketing genius came up with this idea?

Website: http://www.fernwoodfitness.com.au

Hungry for a Big Mac at 5am in the morning? Want to grab a burger on the way home from a late night out?

Well forget it.

Read the fine print. It says only at participating drive thru stores only.