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People Don’t Like It When You Turn Your House Into a Billboard

Creativity

A family in Los Angeles appalled their neighbors by renting out the front of their house as billboard space to marketing company Brainiacs From Mars, which is paying close to [...]


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Ranging Far Afield with Afar Media

Media

A sit-down with two executives for the inside scoop on "the best thing that's happened to travel publishing in years."

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Rich Will Wanket fired over masturbation ad

Creativity

By now, you've heard of Rich Will Wanket (his real name!), the real-estate agent in Minneapolis who created the ad above, playing off his name's masturbatory connotations. We wrote about [...]

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Rich Wanket isn’t jerking around in realty ad

Creativity

This realtor ad from Rich Will Wanket (his real name—you can check his birth certificate) looks pretty old. But it's unlikely it's been surpassed in the intervening years by a [...]

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Calgary high-rise’s low-rent ads get pulled

Creativity

A Calgary condo project's sexist ads have been yanked after an offended actor raised a ruckus about them. And not without cause, judging by the copy on the poster shown [...]

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Living in Canada can actually be not terrible

Creativity

With the economic crisis stalling growth on the home-buying front, the Canadian Real Estate Association has launched a campaign to educate consumers about how to work with CREA's greedy, blood-sucking [...]