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Am I on the only person who can’t read the dog ad?

I think the details of the ad are irrelevant. It’s the pragmatic placement that makes it effective.

The parallel with something like adsense only makes sense if the poster knows that dogs routinely pull their owner toward this tree to sniff and pee. The evidence at the base of the tree would make it a truly contextual ad.

Better yet, go “downstream” a bit and find the park bench where all the owner/walkers stop to rest and put a second ad there.

@charlie “pragmatic placement”!? I’d call it vandalizing public space. Let’s not encourage every solicitor whose target audience includes “people who use sidewalks” to start nailing ads to trees.

I’d allow narrow exceptions for finding missing pets and similar sentimental, non-commercial signs. But finding a dog walker is not one of them…the advertiser should try Craigslist…it won’t harm the tree, and won’t deface the sidewalk for everyone else.

I wonder if a personal injury attorney has ever tried getting his ads printed on the inside of cars’ airbags…

I agree with Aaron, I do not like people tacking or nailing papers to trees. I rip them down.

This looks like it was taken from an iPhone, no?

I have a similar one, which my colleague saw in a park:

Taped to a tree branch in 2,75m height was a personal ad reading “Looking for a tall woman” :-)

http://data.blogg.de/11920/images/bigwoman.jpg

@Benjy

If they were printed on the inside of air bags, how would anyone see them? ;-)

P.S. – I think you dance just fine.

I was wondering how far down I’d have to read before someone complained about it being tacked to the tree.

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is this the official launch of google’s offline adsense program? is someone at 37 signals going to hold up a huge google check next month?