Tag Archives: Advertising

If Santa Isn't Real, What Is? Inauthenticity in an AI Age

By | December 12, 2025

As AI generated content gets ‘better’ — in the sense of feeling, appearing realistic — does that mean we will more readily accept it? Or will we more readily dismiss it — and all content that might appear to be generated by AI? What happens when we start to suspect that everything is AI generated?… Read More »

Sponsored content: the bait and switch

By | February 27, 2024

Sponsored content on big media name platforms is not what you think it is. Increasingly, companies are paying well-known journalism brands to produce and host sponsored content. The deal is this: you pay a big name media platform to write something nice about you and they put it on their website. If you squint you… Read More »

Generating Meaning or Fluff?

By | November 22, 2011

I love this: a mashup that generates great-looking ads from Flickr pictures and a computer. The conclusion: We realise how easily affected we are by words and pictures together, but how the mix often doesn’t mean very much, especially when they’re ads. By remixing corporate slogans, I intend to show how the language of advertising… Read More »

How Reliable Is Google Maps?

By | November 22, 2011

Was looking for a Singapore hotel this morning on Google Maps, which would seem to be a good place to start, and was perturbed to find it flagged in five different places, most of them several streets apart (above). These are all links from companies advertising rooms. So you’d think they would try to get… Read More »