sports

The Brooklyn Nets' parked billboard (Twitter)

Deron Williams Wooed By Nets’ Birthday Billboard

Deron Williams is a hot commodity right now: The NBA player almost single-handedly turned around the New Jersey Nets’ subpar season when he scored a personal and team-breaking record of 57 points off the Charlotte Bobcats in March. (Not to mention that this was the NBA’s season record high as well.) Comparisons to Kobe Bryant were inevitable, since he’s the only player to beat the Bobcats with more points than Mr. Williams. Read More

Religion

American Atheists' latest signage (YouTube)

American Atheists Post Anti-Religious Billboards in Hasidic, Muslim Districts (Video)

While on the topic of just really respectful advertising today, here’s American Atheists telling Hasidic Jews in Williamsburg and Muslims in Patterson, New Jersey, that they know their religion is a lie.

“You know it’s a myth,” reads the signs, which cost $30,000 each to post in heavily Muslim-and-Hasidic areas. (They read in Arabic and Hebrew respectively.) “And you have a choice.” Read More

Campaigns

Electile Dysfunction advertisement by Kenneth Cole (Facebook)

Kenneth Cole Premieres ‘Electile Dysfunction’ Billboard on West Side Highway

Are you coming up on this election year feeling a little limp? Don’t have the stamina to plow through another round of “Yes we can?” (Especially since you’re not even in the mood anymore?) Do you live on 123rd street and Riverside Drive?

Well, then you’re in for a big treat this morning. Designer Kenneth Cole is premiering the first politically-aimed billboard in his “Where Do You Stand?” campaign. Read More