Originally Posted by Bikkhu
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.
I don't think that will happen. You see, if Red Bull wanted to have a guy ride around with a red bull T-shirt on, they would just start selling T-shirts, and some guy would do it without being paid. Happens all the time; I'm providing free advertising for Nike right now at a coffeshop.