Originally Posted by jfmckenna
What do you mean? As in local businesses will 'sponsor' messengers. I really know nothing about the scene today. I had a roommate in the 80's from Brooklyn who was a messenger but it seemed like a regular old job to him. My point is this; is it faux paux for messengers to ride around with adverts on them? The road racing team I race for is basically required to ride around advertising for our sponsors and we are greatfull to do it since we get stuff in return.
No, I am not against advertising per se - just as long the individual messengers get paid for the ads thatīs fine. What I meant in my original post was that a day will come soon when a company (probably Red Bull or Puma, methinks
) will pay messenger-lookalikes to "run empty" around town centres just to keep their logos visible and score cred points for the brand.