AdDistortion

All news related to the subverting, hijacking & hacking of advertising spaces. Curated by @thomasdekeyser.

For a history of #Subvertising:

[AdDistortion @DistortedAd]

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: https://t.co/0JABXHfztZ

[Adfree Cities @adfreecities]

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.
https://t.co/9LDol20d2O

[Thomas Dekeyser @ThomasDekeyser]

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 @BrandalismUK]

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. ✊

https://t.co/6DsNVyKUhQ

#BeyondZero #BanFossilAds #BrusselsMotorShow / 1

[AdDistortion @DistortedAd]

I suspect this may attract some of the neighbourhood's subvertisers. https://t.co/c7HVhSMLqF

[Spelling Mistakes Cost Lives @darren_cullen]

These #BoycottQatar2022 posters have started appearing on trains recently.

[AdDistortion @DistortedAd]

"a spectacular fire has broken out in Schaerbeek, Brussels. No casualties to mourn."

🔥🔥🔥 subvertising as part of the 'ZAP games' (https://t.co/QdIoOKM0LN) currently taking place in Brussels.

[Meaning Transformation Guild @MeaningGuild]

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.

[AdDistortion @DistortedAd]

"shot on iphone"

anti-police brutality poster spotted on NY advertising space.

[AdDistortion @DistortedAd]

Graffiti on billboard in Iran:

“We are no longer scared, we will fight you.”

🔥🔥🔥

[Radical Graffiti @GraffitiRadical]

"Make your workplace better, Unionize"
Seen in the subway in Greenpoint, Brooklyn

[AdDistortion @DistortedAd]

why do they insist on making subvertisers' lives so easy? like, it's literally the world's top plastic polluter?!

[COP27 @COP27P]

The #COP27 Presidency announces The @CocaCola Company as a Supporting Sponsor to COP27. For more information: https://t.co/JDyhS2N79A

[AdDistortion @DistortedAd]

@AlexBoothe92 @TheDrum Oh no! Not commercial implications for some of the world's most profitable media businesses!

[Radical Graffiti @GraffitiRadical]

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

[AdDistortion @DistortedAd]

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.

[AdDistortion @DistortedAd]

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'.

[badvertising @badvertising.bsky.social @badvertising11]

⚡ 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 👉https://t.co/s4rO2ZXSDi

Artwork by Lindsay Grime spotted in London

[AdDistortion @DistortedAd]

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'?

[AdDistortion @DistortedAd]

There's genuine beauty in a vandalised digital advertising screen.

[AdDistortion @DistortedAd]

and what on earth does this mean?!

[AdDistortion @DistortedAd]

🤤

[AdDistortion @DistortedAd]

@GraffitiRadical Looks good at night too