{"id":3288,"date":"2006-07-06T14:14:44","date_gmt":"2006-07-06T18:14:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yummy-wakame.com\/archives\/2006\/07\/06\/3288"},"modified":"2006-07-06T14:14:44","modified_gmt":"2006-07-06T18:14:44","slug":"fake-ad-agency-does-it-better-than-the-rest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/2006\/07\/fake-ad-agency-does-it-better-than-the-rest\/","title":{"rendered":"Fake ad agency does it better"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.instoresnow.nl\/index2.html\" rel=\"external\"><strong>in stores now<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/today.reuters.com\/news\/newsarticle.aspx?type=oddlyEnoughNews&#038;storyid=2006-07-05T211727Z_01_L04727137_RTRUKOC_0_US-DUTCH-ADVERTISING.xml&#038;src=rss\" rel=\"external\">Reuters:<\/a> A Dutch design student bored with conventional advertisements has set up a fake online agency offering advertising space for beer, cars and TV stations on prostitutes&#8217; thighs and cleavage.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>On his website <a href=\"http:\/\/www.instoresnow.nl\/index2.html\" rel=\"external\">www.instoresnow.nl<\/a>, Raoul Balai also proposed painting brand names on zoo animals and floating huge billboards off popular beaches to get vacationers&#8217; attention.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I was getting sick and tired of advertising everywhere,&#8221; Balai told reporters. &#8220;But I don&#8217;t want to preach, and I thought satire would work better.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Far from taking his ideas as a joke, an Amsterdam zoo had its lawyer threaten Balai with a defamation suit after his website depicted fish from the zoo bearing the brand name of a frozen fish company.<\/p>\n<p>Prospective customers phoning his fake agency are kept on hold and bombarded with sales pitches until they give up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>in stores now Reuters: A Dutch design student bored with conventional advertisements has set up a fake online agency offering advertising space for beer, cars and TV stations on prostitutes&#8217; thighs and cleavage. On his website www.instoresnow.nl, Raoul Balai also proposed painting brand names on zoo animals and floating huge billboards off popular beaches to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[252,212],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bizarre-weird","category-blogalog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3288","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3288"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3288\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}