{"id":10258,"date":"2012-11-24T12:59:05","date_gmt":"2012-11-24T12:59:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/?p=10258"},"modified":"2012-11-24T12:59:05","modified_gmt":"2012-11-24T12:59:05","slug":"the-christmas-cash-in-continues-as-london-drips-in-tacky-festive-themed-advertising-tat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/the-christmas-cash-in-continues-as-london-drips-in-tacky-festive-themed-advertising-tat\/","title":{"rendered":"The Christmas cash-in continues as London drips in tacky, festive-themed advertising tat"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"London<\/p>\n

We’re still a week away from December, but London is already\u00a0dripping in tacky, festive-themed advertising tat, with all manner of big brands keen to turn the season of goodwill into a wallet-lining marketing opportunity.<\/p>\n

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\"London<\/p>\n

Carnaby Street has already taken the opportunity to \u00a0celebrate the, err, Rolling Stones’ long association with all things Christmassy, proudly sticking the band’s logo above the heads of shoppers.<\/p>\n

I’m really not sure what’s ‘rock and roll’ about Carnaby Street, Christmas, the Stones logo or the bundles of oversized records suspended in the air, but I’m sure some swivel-action advertising exec can explain it all via the medium of PowerPoint and flipcharts.<\/p>\n

\"London<\/p>\n

Perhaps the worst offender of all is these dreadful Marmite-branded\u00a0illuminated\u00a0adverts straddling London’s busiest shopping thoroughfare, Oxford Street.<\/p>\n

They’re not\u00a0decorations. They’re adverts. And they’re tacky and horrible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We’re still a week away from December, but London is already\u00a0dripping in tacky, festive-themed advertising tat, with all manner of big brands keen to turn the season of goodwill into … <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10259,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[194,193],"tags":[24,10],"class_list":["post-10258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-london-features","category-places","tag-christmas","tag-london"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/christmas-tat-2012-1.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pQI7P-2Fs","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10258"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10258\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10263,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10258\/revisions\/10263"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}