WebUrbanist

Architecture, Art, Design & Built Environments

Category: Guerilla Ads & Marketing

Guerrilla marketing has become all the rage these days but it is nothing new – it is simply a twist on delivering a message, communicating a concept and selling something in a way that engages an audience. The best part about good guerrilla advertisements and clever guerrilla marketing campaigns is that people know that there is a commercial interest but still approve of the installation or innovation – even despite its corporate nature.

Chaper 2: The Origins and Evolution of Guerrilla Marketing

(Check out our complete Guide to Guerrilla Marketing.) In the first part of our series on guerrilla marketing we examined how the movement got its start and why it is so effective. Before that, we ...

Chapter 1: A Guide to The History of Guerrilla Marketing

Everyone loves a story about the little guy who takes on the bigger, more heavily armed opponent and wins. When the little guy uses unconventional tactics and surprises the opponent, it's called ...

Whoops: 5 Great Examples of Guerilla Marketing Gone Wrong

Guerilla marketing is often a risky business, skirting the edge of ethical (or even legal) acceptability. Some guerilla marketers who have crossed the line have caused everything from Olympic ...

15 Humanitarian Subvertisements Advocate Global Causes

Save perhaps lawyers, what is more ubiquitous in modern society than advertising? We are used to guerilla advertisements that promote a product or service for profit or subvert the status quo but ...

Shop, Drop & Art: 7 Surrealist Urban Shopdropping Projects

[above: put this back in your next mass-mailed business reply envelope!] If the comments on this article are any indicator, Shopdropping is controversial to say the least. Still, whether they ...

Shopdropping aka Droplifting: Guide to Reverse Shoplifting

(Check out our complete collection of Subversive Marketing and Culture Jamming.) Shopdropping was probably the last kind of giving on most people's minds as they shopped during the holiday season. ...

Guerilla for Good: 3 Subversive Projects to Save the Planet

(Check out our complete collection of Subversive Marketing and Culture Jamming.) When most people think of guerilla art they probably think of street graffiti. Sure, graffiti can be impressively ...

Subvertising: 5 Clever Ways to Subvert Your Surroundings

(Check out our complete collection of Subversive Marketing and Culture Jamming.) Subvertisements are an excellent means of turning the commercial world around you upside down, make humorous or ...

Clean Streets: Guerilla Marketing Meets Reverse Graffiti

Imagine creating amazing street art murals, graphics or graffiti tags anywhere you wanted and in a completely legal why. Now imagine getting paid for it. Well, one featured Web Urbanist street artist ...

Silly, Satirical, Sublime: Urban Street Art Installation Projects

A WebUrbanist reader pointed out a potential problem with posting even really fascinating guerilla marketing images: such images are inevitably free advertising for the companies the advertise ...

  • Prev
  • 1
  • ...
  • 6
  • 7
  • 8
  • 9
  • 10 (current)
  • 11
  • Next

More Articles

Tube Art: Tiny, Magical Worlds Inside Toilet Paper Rolls

Rebel Architecture: 6-Part Series on Global Guerilla Urbanism

Real Large LEGO: Concrete Bridge Turned to Colorful Brick

Appeals to Authorities: 16 Shots of a Year-Long Graffiti Sequence

Follow us on Facebook

Architecture
  • Abandoned Places
  • Cities & Urbanism
  • Houses & Residential
  • Offices & Commercial
  • Public & Institutional
Art
  • Drawing & Digital
  • Installation & Sound
  • Photography & Video
  • Sculpture & Craft
  • Street Art & Graffiti
Design
  • Fixtures & Interiors
  • Furniture & Decor
  • Graphics & Branding
  • Guerilla Ads & Marketing
  • Products & Packaging
Technology
  • Conceptual & Futuristic
  • Gadgets & Geekery
  • Gaming & Computing
  • Vehicles & Mods
  • Vintage & Retro
Travel
  • 7 Wonders Series
  • Boutique & Art Hotels
  • Culture & History
  • Destinations & Sights
  • Urban Exploration

© 2007-2025 Webist Media

  • About
  • Archives
  • Categories
  • Terms of Service
  • Privacy Policy
  • Cookie Policy