With advertising already appearing everywhere from fresh produce to the crappy movie you just paid $12 to see, it was inevitable that advertisers would finally look to the skies.
The amazing success of Google Maps has seen a new marketing phenomenon: Retailers are painting logos on rooftops in hopes of getting online-map users as customers.
Target stores have begun painting massive logos on the rooftops of the big-box retailers.
Roof advertising isn't new, but it was generally limited to the areas around commercial airports. Google Maps uses satellite imagery taken all over the world.
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Anytime in the last 5 years though if the demand was big enough I am sure they would start providing more recent shots, they own Keyhole so I am sure it would nto be that hard.Originally Posted by Auggie2k
The ad revenue from stuff like this might be the catalyst.
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In the 60's, people took acid to make the world weird.
Now the world is weird and people take Prozac to make it normal.
They should try that in Iraq to reduce friendly fire.
"I believe we are on an irreversible trend toward more freedom and democracy - but that could change."
-- Vice President Dan Quayle, 5/22/89
That would not work:
In 2001 the US army bombed a Red Cross warehouse in Afghanistan TWICE even though there was a big red cross logo painted on the roof.
http://www.therationalradical.com/ds...cross-bomb.htm
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