Recession billboards ask Americans to lighten up

"Interesting fact about recessions ... they end."

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Secularist group buying billboards to honor Darwin

A secularist group is observing the 200th birthday of Charles Darwin with billboards that urge people to "Evolve Beyond Belief."

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Airline seeks bald men as walking billboards

New Zealand's national airline is offering to pay bald travelers to use their heads — literally — in a new advertising campaign.

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Exemption to 40-year-old billboard ban in Vt. worries some

For 40 years, it's been the guardian of the state's pastoral landscapes, keeping interstates and back roads clear of outdoor advertising. Vermont's billboard ban has always been a sacred cow, and a distinction few other states hold. But an exemption to it — approved by lawmakers and awaiting Gov. Jim Douglas' signature — has some worrying that roadside signs could return.

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FBI Takes 'Wanted' Posters on the Road

Fugitives, beware: The FBI is making your face a roadside alert. No longer relying on Web sites and post offices to display its "Wanted" posters, the FBI has turned to posting the mugs of criminals on the run on electronic billboards along highways in 20 major U.S. cities.

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FBI Mug Shots to Hit Digital Billboards

The FBI's most wanted bank robbers, violent criminals and terrorists will soon appear on 150 digital billboards in 20 cities nationwide.

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Some Fear Billboards Distract Drivers

When officials in this Minneapolis suburb didn't like the two eye-popping digital billboards that Clear Channel erected along the freeway, they pulled the plug. They had the power company cut off the electricity.

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In the wake of multiple, significant threats, the downtown billboard that says "Don't Believe In God? You are not alone" came down early Thursday morning.

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Ohio's three largest cities are home to new chapters of the Coalition of Reason.

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The Freedom From Religion Foundation is promoting atheism through messages on billboards nationwide.

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excerpt: ""A billboard critical of Mercury Insurance is taken down after the firm complains. But a vodka ad suggestive of part of the female anatomy is still eliciting gasps.""

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Federal authorities have identified a suspect in the armed robberies of 10 banks in four states, crediting surveillance photos they posted on electronic billboards throughout the South.

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A Hillsborough public policy group whose Christian platform included a push for a state ban on gay marriage has embraced a new attack on an old target: the separation of church and state.

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BIRMINGHAM | A billboard that was put up by the Alabama Freethought Association is causing debate, with some saying the sign reading "Imagine No Religion" is offensive and should be removed.

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excerpt: "" Since the advent of the billboard campaign on Barack Obama's constitutional eligibility debuted three weeks ago, hundreds have requested mini-billboards that can be displayed as yard signs. You asked for it, you got it.

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The billboard message, "Tell Congress: Stop Killing Children, No More Military Aid to Israel," refers to a U.S. pledge to aid Israel over a ten-year period.

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"Today was a very special day in New York. Some wonderful artists gave this city a wonderful gift: they took over about 120 billboards spread around donwntown Manhattan, painted them on white and replaced the advertisements they usually hold with art.

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CHARLESTON, S.C. — Two months after the local atheist organization here put up a billboard saying "Don't Believe in God? You Are Not Alone," the group's 13 board members met in Laura and Alex Kasman's living room to grapple with the fallout.

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We have shown the very clever billboards promoting water conservation in Denver before; They were part of a campaign that included benches, cars and just about anything Sukle Advertising and Design could come up with.

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The Schwarzenegger administration is considering advertisements on freeway signs used for Amber Alerts and other emergencies.

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Arby's agency Fletcher Martin has developed a way to get people to think Arbys by hoisting balloons off billboards all over town at rush hour. This is smart, engaging and gets the message out in a broad way at a limited expense

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MyUrbanReport states that Arby's has placed balloons around billboards in Atlanta to make the people on them appear to be "thinking Arby's."

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There could be a revolution brewing in billboard advertising. Instead of simply presenting a static image, why not let people interact with the advertisement? This is the vision of electronics giant Samsung and interactive advertising company Reactrix Systems.

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A study to be released on Wednesday finds that advertisements appearing in traditional media like television are still "much more likely" to have made a positive impression with consumers than ads running in digital media.

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The ad is equipped with a camera that gathers details on passers-by.

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For the most part, [billboards] are still a relic of old-world media, and the best guesses about viewership numbers come from foot traffic counts or highway reports, neither of which guarantees that the people passing by were really looking at the billboard, or that they were the …

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In advertising these days, the brass ring goes to those who can measure everything — how many people see a particular advertisement, when they see it, who they are. All of that is easy on the Internet, and getting easier in television and print.

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In advertising these days, the brass ring goes to those who can measure everything — how many people see a particular advertisement, when they see it, who they are. All of that is easy on the Internet, and getting easier in television and print.

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In advertising these days, the brass ring goes to those who can measure everything — how many people see a particular advertisement, when they see it, who they are. All of that is easy on the Internet, and getting easier in television and print.

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Pinellas Park, Florida - Pinellas County Code Enforcement says there's nothing illegal about a revealing sign in front of the Bottoms Up Gentlemen's Club. But many parents don't like itBut just below the large, nearly nude photo of a club employee is a new LED message board.

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"Wichita is among 20 cities that soon will have digital billboards showing fugitives, missing people and urgent security messages from the FBI, the agency says."

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Posting photos of "most wanted" fugitives digitally on billboards...

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