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Wednesday, January 6, 2010

InWindow Mallways, A Better Business Model


A while back InWindow was destroying the streets of New York with Streetscape advertisements. After critiquing their operation for illegally installing these giant street level billboards, their CEO contacted PublicAdCampaign looking to explain why they weren't so bad. We invited Steve Lambert of the Anti-Advertising Agency to come with us and hear them out at the old NYC staple, Fanelli's Cafe. Long story short Steve Birnhak (CEO) and Ray Lee (real estate operations manager) told us they were doing the city a service by covering empty storefronts with their illegal advertisements. The giant ads were supposedly staving off blight and the inevitable neighborhood degeneration associated with it as businesses went belly up in the economic crisis. Obviously this was a matter of opinion and one both Steve Lambert and I disagreed with. It was our opinion that the ads were in fact altering our shared environment for the worse by taking advantage of bad times and the public in general. We were asked to stop finding fault with their business, we responded by asking them to stop illegally using our streets and pursue their other legal outdoor advertising concepts. It seems in New York at least the large Streetscapes have all but disappeared. It also seems InWindow has heeded our advice and put its efforts into Mallways, a legal derivative of their illegal Streetscape operation, and one you can ignore by not entering the church of consumption we call The Mall. If you do see Streetscapes in your neighborhood, please send us a picture with the exact address.

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2 Comments:

Blogger HorsePunchKid said...

Hi there, Jordan. Your link to Fanelli's Cafe is broken. But fanelliscafe.com is itself just a domain-squatting page that has nothing to do with the business and is there just to advertise to unsuspecting visitors. Quite apropos, but you might want to just take out the link--I couldn't find an official website.

Cheers,
-Steve

6.1.10  
Blogger Jordan Seiler said...

that's hilarious, the one link i decide not to check. thank you steve.

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