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Somebody please help the MTA

News flash, the NYC MTA has got both brand and technology problems.

They’ve been brandjacked on Twitter. If you follow @nyc_mta or @mta_nyc, you’ll have noticed odd and/or false information posted recently. Both claim to have been hacked; both mostly seem to use Twittermail to post. I’d been under the (apparently false) impression that the @mta_nyc [...]

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Google presents: urban spam and misdirection

Recently wrote about urban spam + corporate responsibility and called out the NYC MTA for its hellacious new advertiser offering - total subway train domination. And as pictured here - Google just bought some.
Visual offense aside, the execution (on behalf of Google Maps) strikes me as both uninteresting and a bit off-brand for a company [...]

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Urban spam and corporate responsibility

Russian blog Metkere posts several pics of how Ikea enacted a sort of lovely guerrilla redecoration campaign on some subway cars in Novosibirsk. If you don’t care to look at a map it’s somewhere halfway north of Borat and Genghis Khan (via PSFK).
Meanwhile here in NYC we have stuff like this as of last month [...]

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