I was at Chapters the other day checking out some magazines when I came across a fashion magazine that had a piece of paper attached to the cover. It read:
The confessions of a generic magazine: “We loaded this issue with more advertising than content. The content we did publish was edited, censored and manipulated to please our advertisers or as lame filler between the product pushing ads. We got paid quite handsomely to produce this issue and are glad you will pay to read what we already got paid to print. Are You Generic?”
I thought this was some strange marketing technique the magazine was trying and immediatley forgot about it until today, when I came across Are You Generic?. These are the same culture jammers who brought you the starbucks invasion. They are supplying PDFs that you can print out and stick on your magazine of choice.
Posted by Steph Tekano
Tags: Advertising, Pop Culture
