Unforgettable Billboards Make Ads Less Annoying
It was impossible to avoid today’s news of this infamous and bizarre billboard plastered smack dab in the middle of Times Square. Here’s the quick background: the image is of Oracle CEO Charles Phillips and his former mistress of 8 years, YaVaughnie Wilkins (wow, what a name). Apparently Wilkins was pissed off because Philips promised he would leave his wife for her if she waited around for him…according to Philips, his divorce proceedings began in 2008, but his relationship with Wilkins also ended. So, what better way for Wilkins to get revenge than to buy huge billboards in NYC, Atlanta, and San Fran with an image of the canoodling ex-couple and a web address of an online photo album filled with romantic photos from the past 8 years…Phillips must feel the alimony amount skyrocketing by the second…
This will definitely go down in history as one of the most memorable billboards, but Weburbanist has compiled a list of some other unforgettable head-turning billboards from around the world. Here are some of my favorites:
Bic Shavers
Cingular
Heineken
Thorntons – the world’s first edible billboard: 860-lbs containing 10 chocolate bunnies, 72 giant chocolate eggs, & 128 chocolate panels. The billboard was devoured by shoppers within 3 hours of going up!
Economist – when people walked underneath the lightbulb, it would light up!
Adidas
Martor Solingen Razors – to show how sharp their razors are, Martor Solingen put rubber pigeons sliced in half underneath the billboard.
Nationwide Insurance created a fictional paint company and then created this “accident”
-via Weburbanist
