Commercial propaganda
July 17th, 2008, Tomasz RychlickiI got this story from the post available at www.adkuchni.blox.pl website which is devoted to marketing stories in comic shorts.
I found a country without advertisments! It’s Cuba. Only billboards, posters I saw during my trip were governmental expression of revolutionary ideas: Fidel in exchange with Che Guevara and Chavez.
And how should I explain to a Cuban guy I met (my Spanish is fading): ¿donde trabajo? – where do I work?
It went like that:
Cuban guy: ¿Donde trabajas? / Where do you work?
I: En la agencia de publicidad / In advertising agency
C: ¿Donde? / where?
I: Agencia de publicidad / In advertising agency
C: ¿Que es eso? / What is this?
After short explaination I heard from him:
C: Si! Es como la agencia de propaganda comercial! / I get it! It’s like: propaganda agency but for commercial.
You’ll also find a link to www.flickr.com website in comments. It presents many pictures of São Paulo City without any advertising.