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• Angry Birds Attack The Space Needle

  

  Image Courtesy Flickr User "moontrippers" This might be one of the coolest marketing stunts I’ve seen in a while. And it actually makes sense. For the launch... Read more

  Posted on 27 March 2012 BUSINESS, MARKETING & ADVERTISING

• Advance Your Career With Krispy Kreme

  

  Krispy Kreme is targeting office workers in the UK with this outdoor campaign by Addiction. The thing I love about these ads is that it speaks to a specific... Read more

  Posted on 12 March 2012 BUSINESS, MARKETING & ADVERTISING

• KONY 2012 Digital Billboards Available Here

  

  Mark Moyer and Mike Parsons at Fairway Outdoor have put together digital billboards supporting the KONY 2012 campaign. They have made their files available for... Read more

  Posted on 09 March 2012 BUSINESS, MARKETING & ADVERTISING

• A New Regime in Los Angeles

  

  Los Angeles residents recently woke up to a stunning sight. Billboards had been replaced with giant Kim-Jong-Il-esque portraits. A dominant military leader. Read more

  Posted on 09 March 2012 BUSINESS, MARKETING & ADVERTISING

• Subtly Powerful MSU Event Announcements

  

  Extra Credit Projects was kind enough to drop us a line after our post about the OBIE contenders. They are finalists for these gala event ads for the Michigan... Read more

  Posted on 08 March 2012 BUSINESS, MARKETING & ADVERTISING

• The British Have Landed in NYC

  

  BBC America has invaded NYC with a series of cheeky outdoor ads created by their in-house creative department. The stacked billboards are quite clever because... Read more

  Posted on 06 March 2012 BUSINESS, MARKETING & ADVERTISING

• 2012 OBIE Award Contenders

  

  OAAA has released this year’s list of OBIE Awards finalists. Among them are quite a few friends of The Hangline such as Sukle, Firehouse, Amélie Company, Extra... Read more

  Posted on 02 March 2012 BUSINESS, MARKETING & ADVERTISING

• Bus Shelters Make You Crave Baked Potatoes

  

  Ya know when you’re sitting around waiting for the bus and you just start craving a baked potato? No? It’s just me then, eh? Well, McCain must be reading my... Read more

  Posted on 29 February 2012 BUSINESS, MARKETING & ADVERTISING

• Libraries Not Better Than Social Media, Just Different

  

  This is one of those serendipitous things that happen in advertising. You have an idea for a potential client you’ve never talked to before. You put it together... Read more

  Posted on 18 January 2012 BUSINESS, MARKETING & ADVERTISING

• GoDaddy Billboard Makes Little Sense

  

  Not ones afraid of throwing down a big chunk of cash for advertising, GoDaddy.com has recently posted a gigantic billboard in Times Square. Read more

  Posted on 11 January 2012 MARKETING & ADVERTISING

• The Most Controversial Plastic Trees Ever Made

  

  What started off as a search for some festive holiday billboards to post here turned into this recap of outdoor ad campaigns by Treetopia. Green Christmas... Read more

  Posted on 23 December 2011 BUSINESS, MARKETING & ADVERTISING

• The Hangline is One Year Old

  

  Today marks a big milestone for us. We just turned one year old.First of all, thank you.If we didn’t have a wonderful core of fans like you, we would have quit... Read more

  Posted on 20 December 2011 BUSINESS, MARKETING & ADVERTISING

• For the Love of God, It’s Pronounced CO-BURNS

  

  London-based agency BETC has relaunched Cockburn’s (pronounced “co-burns”), the leading brand of port in the UK, with this outdoor campaign. Before you can... Read more

  Posted on 16 December 2011 BUSINESS, MARKETING & ADVERTISING

• Wonderbra Takes a Plunge

  

  For their new line of bras called The Ultimate Plunge, Wonderbra had three winners of an online competition bungee jump in front of a giant ad projected on... Read more

  Posted on 08 December 2011 BUSINESS, MARKETING & ADVERTISING

• Iconic Yahoo Billboard is Coming Down

  

  Photo Courtesy of Flickr user spieri_sfI don’t know if there’s more of a pinnacle of achievement in outdoor advertising than when your billboard becomes an... Read more

  Posted on 05 December 2011 BUSINESS, MARKETING & ADVERTISING

• Before and After: Sunglass Warehouse

  

  I’m not going to bury the lead here. The ad you see above is pretty awful. I understand its job is to provide direction to a retail store, but it’s not... Read more

  Posted on 01 December 2011 BUSINESS, MARKETING & ADVERTISING

• London Man Does Everything The Billboards Tell Him To

  

  I remember hearing some statistic about how the average person is exposed to about 1,500 ads per day. However, most of us don’t look out our kitchen window to... Read more

  Posted on 29 November 2011 BUSINESS, MARKETING & ADVERTISING

• McDonald’s Fries Light Up Chicago

  

  Craving fries? Just follow the golden lights from these billboards in Chicago. Apparently they’re viewable from up to three miles away. Really nice idea althoug... Read more

  Posted on 21 November 2011 MARKETING & ADVERTISING

• Billboards Finally Get a Voice

  

  What would a billboard say about some of the awful creative that gets posted on it? We took that concept and ran with it. What you’re seeing above is our first... Read more

  Posted on 11 November 2011 BUSINESS, MARKETING & ADVERTISING

• Author Takes a Dig at Borders

  

  Aaron Shapiro, CEO of digital agency HUGE, has released Users Not Customers a book aimed to help businesses transition into the digital marketplace. To promote... Read more

  Posted on 08 November 2011 BUSINESS, MARKETING & ADVERTISING