Tech Entrepreneur Finances Wedding by Selling Advertisements on His Suit Jacket
A broke Frenchman was able to cover the cost of his wedding by selling advertisements on his tuxedo jacket to 26 startups and becoming a human billboard.
In China, You Need to Watch Ads to Get Toilet Paper at Public Toilets
Videos featuring smart toilet paper dispensers that require people to watch short ads to receive toilet paper strips in public toilets have gone viral in China. Ever since it started its new era of booming national tourism, China has experimented with ingenious ways of preventing toilet paper waste. Back in 2017, international news outlets reported […]
Russian Startup Plans to Launch Giant Ad Billboards in Low-Earth Orbit
Imagine looking up to gaze at the moon on a clear summer night only to see the sky full of glowing advertising billboards. That’s the future envisioned by a Russian start-up which plans to launch billboard advertisements into low-Earth orbit as early as 2021. Russian company StartRocket announced plans to introduce orbital advertising billboards made up […]
Don’t Freak Out, But Those Digital Adverts at the Shopping Mall May Be Watching You
A pizzeria in Oslo, Norway, recently came under fire after it was revealed that its digital adverts were actually filming passers by, analyzing their facial features and displaying different adverts according to a variety of factors. The monitoring system was accidentally revealed at the beginning of May, when the system crashed and software code was […]