[Atheists] Atheist Bus Ads Cont
Thanks to everyone who emailed me their comments and concerns about the atheist bus ads. A number of things are much clearer now.
After talking to the Vice-President of Pattison Outdoors Advertising today, I learnt that the concern that was likely echoed by the Edmonton Journal reporter was actually more complicated than it had been framed.
Pattison's main concern is that they do not want to run a cheap controversial ad that's sole purpose is to generate media. With that said, he would support our ad, if it were worth it to their company. This means he would rather see a larger ad campaign so that when he fields hundred of angry religious callers he can rest easier at night.
However, the ad campaign being run in Calgary is smaller than he quoted to me for what he wants to see. In Calgary they will have only 8 ads on the sides of buses. Perhaps there's not a lot of internal communication in Pattison advertising, or perhaps he hardened his heart on the issue.
Nevertheless, the Freethought Association of Canada (of the "There is probably no god..." ads) and Humanist Canada (of the "You can be good without God" ads) are both testing the waters here to potentially run here. They are not competing groups, and merely want to see a productive dialogue be raised in each city that the ads run. The FAC has done very well pursuing PR when these ads are launched, and potentially have a larger coiffer backing them. However, the Humanist's ad may appeal more to the less confrontational among us.
I should note that both of these ad campaigns are driven solely by donations from people across the country. You can donate to the FAC campaign at http://atheistbus.ca or to the Humanist Canada campaign at http://www.humanists.ca
So I'll put it to a vote: which ad, or no ad do you want to see?
Please only vote once. The poll closes in one week on Friday, 27 February 2009 at 3:00 PM (right when Liquid Rationalism starts).
And feel free to send me (thzatheist@gmail.com, do not reply to the mailing list) any more comments you have about the ad campaign.
Ian Bushfield
President, UofA Atheists and Agnostics
http://www.ualberta.ca/~atheists/
University of Alberta
After talking to the Vice-President of Pattison Outdoors Advertising today, I learnt that the concern that was likely echoed by the Edmonton Journal reporter was actually more complicated than it had been framed.
Pattison's main concern is that they do not want to run a cheap controversial ad that's sole purpose is to generate media. With that said, he would support our ad, if it were worth it to their company. This means he would rather see a larger ad campaign so that when he fields hundred of angry religious callers he can rest easier at night.
However, the ad campaign being run in Calgary is smaller than he quoted to me for what he wants to see. In Calgary they will have only 8 ads on the sides of buses. Perhaps there's not a lot of internal communication in Pattison advertising, or perhaps he hardened his heart on the issue.
Nevertheless, the Freethought Association of Canada (of the "There is probably no god..." ads) and Humanist Canada (of the "You can be good without God" ads) are both testing the waters here to potentially run here. They are not competing groups, and merely want to see a productive dialogue be raised in each city that the ads run. The FAC has done very well pursuing PR when these ads are launched, and potentially have a larger coiffer backing them. However, the Humanist's ad may appeal more to the less confrontational among us.
I should note that both of these ad campaigns are driven solely by donations from people across the country. You can donate to the FAC campaign at http://atheistbus.ca or to the Humanist Canada campaign at http://www.humanists.ca
So I'll put it to a vote: which ad, or no ad do you want to see?
Please only vote once. The poll closes in one week on Friday, 27 February 2009 at 3:00 PM (right when Liquid Rationalism starts).
And feel free to send me (thzatheist@gmail.com, do not reply to the mailing list) any more comments you have about the ad campaign.
Ian Bushfield
President, UofA Atheists and Agnostics
http://www.ualberta.ca/~atheists/
University of Alberta
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posted by UAAA at
3:31 PM
2 Comments:
Yeah, Ian, I love the header, I burst out laughing - excuse one. I wanted to say I like both of them - one is funny & light, and one is deeper & may make people think and be responsible for their lives, choices they make.
Anyway, keep trucking - God is probably not watching.
Yeah, Ian, I love the header, I burst out laughing - excuse one. I wanted to say I like both of them - one is funny & light, and one is deeper & may make people think and be responsible for their lives, choices they make.
Anyway, keep trucking - God is probably not watching.
Weird, I am not Alley Cat's Dumpster, so how the heck did that happen.
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