Here’s a dystopic advertising idea for you
Companies renting “smell time” in their office buildings. Say, 11:25-11:40, the sandwich company accross the street can rent the time to push baked bread smells through the ventilation system. 4:45-5:00, supermarket chains can push the smell of roasted chicken.
October 25th, 2007 18:38
Or a plumbing company that pays the people who just ate burritos to leave the bathroom door open.
October 26th, 2007 21:06
A for dystopia, C for realism. Since when do offices allow much advertising of any kind in? Maybe the occasional restaurant flyer gets in, and of course all the promotional products from conferences, salesmen, etc., but not much with any permanence or prominence, definitely not stuff the company is paid to put in. They don’t want attention pulled away from work.
October 26th, 2007 21:07
Your mileage may vary, I suppose, but still.
October 27th, 2007 04:09
Ok then, how about stores inside malls but away from the food court? Or Walmart? Any big box store really. Airports perhaps? I’m sure if one put their mind to it a vast array of places this could be implemented would spring forth.
October 28th, 2007 13:45
I’m pretty sure Subway already does this with their bread smell. And I think Costco’s bakery vents straight into the parking lot, too. But then again, I’m also convinced Pringles have nicotene.
October 29th, 2007 06:46
Sorry to thread hop. Did someone forget to pay the rent for www.spinnoff.com/bb?
*snif*
October 29th, 2007 10:27
Oh, so I did, yeah.
Minivet: uh, yeah, way to construct a position you can argue with, there.
October 30th, 2007 21:22
What, you mean my hedging? If so, I don’t apologize for not being so cocksure as to call my off-the-cuff generalization the gospel truth.
I still can’t think of an instance where a company accepts payment to advertise to their own employees (as opposed to customers). If someone suggests one, maybe I can think about it more constructively.
Or else you-plural don’t find it interesting. That’s fine too.
November 5th, 2007 10:25
Er, what? No, the “realism” part, you made up, I’m saying. I didn’t say I’m expecting a company to exist in the next three days where I can start renting smell time. I just said it was kinda a funky idea. But then you went with “well it couldn’t happen, and here’s why you’re wrong” and I was all “WHOA WHOA WHOA THERE.”
November 10th, 2007 02:39
I can’t figure out a way to get an e-mail to you, but I’d like to see if it’d be cool to play that Abe Vigoda song on our podcast - The Stuart Bedasso Show. Can you send me an e-mail to let us know if it’d be cool? Thanks.
Dave
The Stuart Bedasso Show
http://bedasso.blogspot.com
bedasso23 at yahoo dot com
November 20th, 2007 09:52
Spinn:
Ah, my bad. The issue of realism was really just something I wanted to muse about, but then I wrote it all confrontationally. Sorry.
Also, I completely misunderstood your first reply.