billboard News

billboard News From AOL News

New Advertising Company Will Turn Your House Into a Billboard

If it's difficult to pay the bills on your house, try turning your house into a billboard. An advertising start-up in Orange, Calif., is offering to help 100 Americans pay their mortgages -- if the homeowners convert their houses into massive painted ads for the business. "It's a really good marriage for us to be able to...

From New York to Midwest to South, Abortion Battle Heats Up

NEW YORK -- It was only a single billboard, raised high above the streets of Manhattan, with a photograph of a black little girl and the kind of message the city's residents don't often see: "The most dangerous place for an African-American is in the womb." The ad was sponsored by a Texas-based anti-abortion group, which...

'We're Like a Cult With Better Kool-Aid' Billboard Yanked

SOUTH BEND, Ind. -- A northern Indiana restaurant that erected billboards referring to the 1978 Jonestown cult massacre in which more than 900 people died has removed the signs following complaints that the signs were offensive. Jeff Leslie, vice president of sales and marketing at Hacienda, acknowledged that the...

Turning NYC's Times Square Billboards Into Art Exhibit

(Nov. 30) -- Billboards aren't cheap -- especially in New York City's Times Square. But a Dutch student is hoping to buy every single one of them in a massive public art project. After announcing the "Times Square to Art Square" project, Justus Bruns and a team of art lovers have started raising funds for a one-day...

Calvin Klein 'Rape' Ads Banned Down Under

(Oct. 25) -- A racy Calvin Klein ad showing a nearly naked female model being straddled and held by the hair has been banned in Australia, where officials say it encourages rape and violence. The government's Advertising Standards Bureau has ordered the controversial billboards be removed after declaring the images were...