Is there any place you can't advertise? - Subaru Enthusiasts Car Club of the Sierras

Nick Koan · 2006-02-07, 06:36 PM

I seriously have felt a lack of ads walking from my car to the store I am about to buy something from. I've been wondering when someone would do something about it.

http://www.tbt.com/news/article17584.ece

Quote:

Associated Press

The parking lot: it isn't just for parking anymore.

In the latest example of advertisers turning space with no commercial value into something valuable, a company is manufacturing printed vinyl ads that cover the lines between spaces in parking lots. They're unobtrusive from a distance but impossible to miss when standing over them.

The ads' creator says they're effective because most people in a retailer's parking lot are there specifically to purchase something.

"Over 60 percent of all purchases are impulse in nature, and so if you can garner that last chance to communicate your message, you're going to be a heck of a lot better off," says Greg Gorman, founder of Parking Stripe Advertising.

Gorman, who developed the ubiquitous Budweiser "frogs" and "Clydesdale" campaigns, hatched the idea for his newest venture during a brainstorm session at his Denver-based marketing firm, Commotion LLC. After challenging his employees to come up with new places to put ads, Gorman, 46, looked out of his office window and flippantly suggested the stripes on the parking lot. It took him a second or two to realize he'd just stumbled upon a potential moneymaker.
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sonicsuby · 2006-02-07, 06:45 PM

oh dear god

MattR · 2006-02-07, 06:49 PM

I will make it my life goal to do smokey burnouts on each line I see. How retarded

tysonK · 2006-02-07, 06:51 PM

A great place for a tire ad.

AtomicLabMonkey · 2006-02-07, 06:56 PM

Last week I put my card into the reader at a gas pump, turned around to start pumping the gas, and was rewarded for my efforts by a pimp-slap upside the head from the 150dB wall of advertising noise emanating from the speaker hidden in the pump. I had to stagger back to the driver's door & pull myself inside to escape this sonic assault and attempt to clean up the grey matter & blood slushy leaking out of my ears. After my heart rate dropped down below 205 and I could form lucid thoughts again, I realized that someday, somewhere, I will probably be arrested for vandalism & property destruction when I finally snap and beat an automated ad machine to a twisted, sparky pulp.

sperry · 2006-02-07, 07:43 PM

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Originally Posted by AtomicLabMonkey

Last week I put my card into the reader at a gas pump, turned around to start pumping the gas, and was rewarded for my efforts by a pimp-slap upside the head from the 150dB wall of advertising noise emanating from the speaker hidden in the pump. I had to stagger back to the driver's door & pull myself inside to escape this sonic assault and attempt to clean up the grey matter & blood slushy leaking out of my ears. After my heart rate dropped down below 205 and I could form lucid thoughts again, I realized that someday, somewhere, I will probably be arrested for vandalism & property destruction when I finally snap and beat an automated ad machine to a twisted, sparky pulp.

And that folks, is who I learned to rant from.

doubleurx · 2006-02-07, 08:10 PM

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Originally Posted by MattR

I will make it my life goal to do smokey burnouts on each line I see. How retarded

screw the smokey burnouts..................grow a massive monkey tail and pinch that puppy!

sperry · 2006-02-07, 08:35 PM

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Originally Posted by doubleurx

screw the smokey burnouts..................grow a massive monkey tail and pinch that puppy!

Isn't that what you do after eating a buritto the size of your arm?

JC · 2006-02-07, 08:37 PM

Eh, sounds good to me. Maybe now the dumbshits will stay in the lines when they park and stop dinging my car.

JonnydaJibba · 2006-02-07, 09:07 PM

I keep expecting it to stop, but it doesn't, it never freakin does.

M3n2c3 · 2006-02-07, 11:34 PM

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Originally Posted by MattR

I will make it my life goal to do smokey burnouts on each line I see. How retarded

Good thing you have a car that smokes 'em without much effort.

Wait, what?

Kevin M · 2006-02-08, 01:10 AM

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Originally Posted by M3n2c3

Good thing you have a car that smokes 'em without much effort.

Wait, what?

An Sti has ability to smoke its tires that is inversely and directly proportional to how sticky said tires are.

I'd love to see an Sti on the LGT RE92s sometime...

MattR · 2006-02-08, 06:41 AM

F the STi, I wsa talking about the Titan.

MPREZIV · 2006-02-08, 07:43 AM

Oh yeah, Titan will do quite the affore mentioned smokey burnout!

2006-02-07, 06:49 PM	#3
MattR El Matador Real Name: Matt Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Reno, NV Posts: 10,660 Car: 2012 Toyota Tacoma Class: ?	I will make it my life goal to do smokey burnouts on each line I see. How retarded __________________ "Dallas..We have a problem.”

2006-02-07, 06:51 PM	#4
tysonK warehouse SECCS Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: SoCal... Posts: 6,253 Car: 04 Evo 99 Cadillac Class: street de le mod	A great place for a tire ad. __________________ Anjali? Anjali?

2006-02-07, 06:56 PM	#5
AtomicLabMonkey Nightwalker Real Name: Austin Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Oshkosh, WI Posts: 4,063 Car: '13 WRX YGBSM	Last week I put my card into the reader at a gas pump, turned around to start pumping the gas, and was rewarded for my efforts by a pimp-slap upside the head from the 150dB wall of advertising noise emanating from the speaker hidden in the pump. I had to stagger back to the driver's door & pull myself inside to escape this sonic assault and attempt to clean up the grey matter & blood slushy leaking out of my ears. After my heart rate dropped down below 205 and I could form lucid thoughts again, I realized that someday, somewhere, I will probably be arrested for vandalism & property destruction when I finally snap and beat an automated ad machine to a twisted, sparky pulp. __________________ "None of you seem to understand. I'm not locked in here with you.. you're locked in here with me."

2006-02-07, 08:37 PM	#9
JC Ask me about dubs! Real Name: JC Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Orange, CA Posts: 2,895 Car: 2013 Triumph Speed Triple R	Eh, sounds good to me. Maybe now the dumbshits will stay in the lines when they park and stop dinging my car. __________________ Actually, I am a rocket scientist.

2006-02-07, 09:07 PM	#10
JonnydaJibba EJ207 Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Reno/Sparks, Nevada Posts: 3,482 Car: 2000 2.5RS Class: RestNPeace Master Slurper.	I keep expecting it to stop, but it doesn't, it never freakin does. __________________ "Why do chicks tell you to call and then not answer....so gay." "Cuz girls are fags I dunno"

2006-02-07, 06:45 PM	#2
sonicsuby Wagon Ho #2 Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Sacramento, CA Posts: 657	oh dear god

2006-02-08, 06:41 AM	#13
MattR El Matador Real Name: Matt Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Reno, NV Posts: 10,660 Car: 2012 Toyota Tacoma Class: ?	F the STi, I wsa talking about the Titan. __________________ "Dallas..We have a problem.”

2006-02-08, 07:43 AM	#14
MPREZIV Token Real Name: Le Stig Afrique? Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: sitting next to a big yellow box Posts: 3,589 Car: 2001 Impreza 2.5 RS Class: 05 TDSP No, I won't work on your car. F your car*	Oh yeah, Titan will do quite the affore mentioned smokey burnout! __________________ "...these condoms have a topical anesthetic to reduce sensitivity, so you can last longer. What a paradox. You can't feel a thing, but you can f*ck for HOURS..."

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