It appears Google is advertising its Maps service on the New York City subway. I found these pictures on my buddy Nick’s Tumblr, thus leading me to believe that Google would prefer you to use the Maps service over Hopstop. Too bad it’s stuck on the shuttle train.

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Barack Obama is taking his campaign to the virtual space that is gaming in an attempt to appeal to gamers everywhere. The Obama campaign has purchased space in Madden NFL ‘09 and nine other titles from Electronic Arts. Only ten states will be able to see the ads (once updated through Xbox’s Internet service): Colorado, Florida, Iowa, Indiana, Montana, North Carolina, New Mexico, Nevada, Ohio and Wisconsin, which all happen to be swing states.The ads will be running until November 3rd.

Apparently, there aren’t enough advertisements being raped into the eyes of gamers everywhere. So, where’s McCain? I heard through the grapevine that he’ll be throwing his face in all of the games Obama hasn’t, which only leaves the lame leftovers no one will buy. Just don’t quote me on that.

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Dubai is a cool city and all, but have you ever gotten the feeling that it’s just flaunting its endless wealth? That’s because it is. Dubai is rich, filthy rich and they aren’t afraid of letting the world know it by dropping billions of dollars on over-elaborate fountains and animated skyscrapers.

Now, Dubai is “WOWing” the world once again by having the UAE development company, Tameer Holding, develop the world’s largest LED screen to be embedded on an intended commercial tower in the Majan district of Dubailand. That’s 33 stories of advertising. It might seem a little excessive, but this is Dubai. It’s got money and it’s not afraid to flaunt it.

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Creative advertising for a Schick ad. Note the tiger sans fur.

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Do you remember the scene in Minority Report where Tom Cruise walks into a Gap and is greeted by a holographic female who recommends clothing to him based on facial recognition? I remember thinking how awesome it would be if a hot holographic chick did all my shopping for me so I could just lounge around and stare at girls’ asses. Lucky for us, YCD Multimedia shares the same feelings and is working to bring digital signs to our local malls.

Each sign will be able to scan a customer’s face and analyze it. After determining race, age, sex and ethnicity, the system will recommend purchases based on your bodily makeup. It’ll be interesting to see what it recommends for me. I’m assuming some t-shirts are in order….

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Australia gets all the fun stuff. And by fun stuff, I mean creative-looking bus stops. This particular bus stop features an ad for the Treasury Casino and is made up of 7563 dice. That’s a lot of craps.

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Hey look, it’s Hayden Christensen! And he’s got an armpit TV. Is there anything that young man can’t do? Wait, what? Oh. I’m getting word from the boss-man that that’s not Hayden Christensen. But that is an armpit with a display. What a bummer.

Deodorant manufacturer Right Guard has created an armpit-based method of advertising in London which it’s calling “pitvertising.” It felt that this was the ideal way to market its products. Right Guard even hired a team of “pitvertisers”, like this Hayden Christensen doppelganger, and sent them out into the streets of London for a trial run of this new medium. Needless to say, everyone was disgusted.

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In an effort to stem losses from console sales (because the PS3 is a steal), Sony announced Friday that it is in desperate need of cash. Well, that wasn’t verbatim but it was something along the lines of an offer for advertising space in their upcoming games.

“Various game titles are played by fans who like certain things, which can offer opportunities for targeted ads,” said a Sony spokesman.

Wait, doesn’t everyone like certain things? Prepare yourself for a mindfuck of corporate pollution in your video games. The ’shopped picture says it all.
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