rolling nyc subway ads discussion thread

like wow you've really captured the spirit of living here, 20 things only a native new yorker will understand

Is there some specific ad agency that does subway ads with that schtick? Because I feel like there have been so many bad campaigns with that exact vibe -- Seamless, various storage companies, etc.

I hate when ads try to get all in-the-know with you like that, it feels like a stranger showing up at your party and reminiscing about old times they weren't actually there for.

replace the new yorkisms with, say, a white upper middle class suburban milieu and I think you'll find those ads to be a pretty standard form--except there's an extra layer of new yorker self-regard being called upon that's particularly creepy.

I hate all these "in the know new yorker" ads for seamless and flatrate and that other storage company. Really, really hate.

And also I agree about that roast chicken and red wine poem.

― signed, J.P. Morgan CEO (Hurting 2), Saturday, January 11, 2014 2:36 PM (1 year ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i admit to finding those ads pretty fascinating...like how they almost always insist on the quotidian new york experience (take out, walk ups, cabs) rather than anything like the "making it in the big city" narrative. almost as if the highest aspiration that you can appeal to in an ad is the *desire to be a new yorker* rather than anything new york might be a means to.

http://media.npr.org/assets/img/2015/10/02/subway-poster_custom-780357a2b706d94d8263cdafcc35a3d0dd1cbfdd-s900-c85.jpg

FUIUD

I hate these ads so fucking much:
http://www.adweek.com/news/advertising-branding/clever-seamless-campaign-uses-witty-one-liners-tap-how-new-yorkers-eat-166975

BEING a SHITTY HUMAN burns a lot of CALORIES

the one that always befuddles me
http://www.adweek.com/files/2015_Sep/seamless-art-3.jpg

yeah, that whole seamless campaign is awful.

http://ads.manhattanministorage.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/GayCouple.jpg

i find myself wondering what the photo shoot for this was like

http://ads.manhattanministorage.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/GayCouple.jpg

'okay guys -- think GAY and FRENZIED'

http://ads.manhattanministorage.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/GayCouple.jpg

Lol the facial expressions of that couple always captivate me in a car wreck sort of way.

They also had that drag queen ad -- whoever photographs them is really good at creating images that are simultaneously a little creepy and hard to stop looking at.

Who the fuck are all these people with spacious, neatly organized walk-in storage rooms anyway?

yeah lol. the whole thing is just stuffing them with cardboard boxes, right?

i guess it could potentially be smart marketing for the u-stor-it industry... convince people they really should use this more like a spacious walk-in closet or a well-organized backyard shed, and thus upsell them on a much bigger unit.. still it seems bonkers. i mean the brownie cameras and keepsakes just sitting out there! just pack this stuff up into a few u-haul boxes and stick it at the bottom of your closet or something. if you don't like that menorah enough to display it in your house maybe it's time to let it go. not sure if the telescope or the stack of pashminas and hats seems most absurd.

dr. zizmor has retired, now spends his time studying the talmud

http://gothamist.com/2016/01/08/subway_facelift_shutdown.php
this is gonna be a FUCKED UP PROBLEM

jelly queen is really disturbing

i'm just really glad that museum of sex has finally retired the boobs bouncy castle ad.... that was ghastly.

Lol at jelly queen
I also like the std volcano

Casino otm.

http://i.imgur.com/RjmKnh5.jpg

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man, fuck the streeteasy "find your formula" ads:

http://creativity-online.com/work/streeteasy-find-your-formula/45564

i really dislike those but part of me is secretly glad that at least it's a hand-drawn illustration from someone with their own kinda gross-looking style. versus the equally gross but also retchingly saccharine mattress ads previously discussed.

Perhaps doesn't need to be said, but those Thinx period underwear ads that were controversial really are much more tasteful than a lot of the ads on the subway.

frenzied storage couple haunt my thoughts and dreams btw. It's bizarre.

http://static1.businessinsider.com/image/5630a2cc9dd7cc25008c540e-3264-2448/img_3114.jpg hate it hate it hate it hate it hate it hate it hate it

sorry for huge but i want yall to feel me here

https://adsonthesubway.files.wordpress.com/2016/01/fullsizerender10.jpg?w=525&h=537

these are so half-assed and shitty-looking that it actually pisses me off

xp yeah those too

my friend on instagram re: jelly queen: "I find these ads exceptionally strange"

adam you are so great on this thread btw

garbage all over the sidewalk + 3am guns + crowded trains + exploding sewer lines = your neighborhood
great schools + 5 nearby dog parks + doorperson that knows your name + sunshine and flowers = some place you can't afford

thanks streeteasy!

thank u doctor

There's so much competition in the "we'll take care of minor inconvenience for you via an app" space.

I saw like two other dry-cleaning/laundry apps advertised just this week.

Wype: toilet paper delivered to your bathroom in seconds.

https://twitter.com/smashedmcdouble/status/694179644560523264

man, fuck the streeteasy "find your formula" ads:

http://creativity-online.com/work/streeteasy-find-your-formula/45564

― Karl Malone, Tuesday, March 15, 2016 10:43 AM (7 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

someone has written "bomb all condos" on one of those at the lafayette c

have we talked about this one

http://nypost.com/2015/12/30/syphilis-explosion-ads-catch-subway-passengers-eyes/

gimme those muslim frittata recipes tbqfh

https://i.imgur.com/rvrmpzb.png

Couldn't snap a pic without the dude sitting in front of it thinking I was photographing him, but there's this new NPR ad that says something like "The NSA is listening, why not give them something more interesting to listen to?"

And I had the sensation that I'm pretty sure is the same feeling people get when they suspect the person trying to ingratiate himself is actually a narc.

That Manhattan Institute personal training guy is terrifying. Can't find a pic.

is that the one with the lady posing with a skeleton on the other half of the ad?

like you can be a personal trainer or a skeleton lady

yes!