Virgin advertising

    At some point this picture was ranked #324 in Flickr Explore for June 18, 2007 by Flagrant Disregard's Scout.

    Virgin Mobile bus stop ad: If talk is cheap, texts should be slightly slutty. Small print: Free text Virgin to Virgin. Picture attributed to Flickr's dylaphant07. Controversy as below. Blogged shimmertje.livejournal.com in July 2007.

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    1. fcmrush (72 months ago | reply)

      interesting sentence
      hehe

      Fabio

    2. shimmertje (72 months ago | reply)

      Thanks! I thought so too! It's been replaced though.

    3. Farl (72 months ago | reply)

      hahahaha I love this. I guess we really are slutty if we follow what it says.

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      trebizord added this photo to their favorites. (72 months ago)

    5. Barney Wrightson (72 months ago | reply)

      This series of ads are using flickr photos - there is a web link bottom left, I can't read it on this size pic though.

      see here for some others in the series:

      --
      Seen in some comments. (?)

    6. teacherjamesdotcom (72 months ago | reply)

      Hi guys,

      My name is Damon and my little sister was featured in one of these "Virgin Mobile" ads. Her friend took her picture and posted it on his Flickr page, and I guess Virgin Mobile took the picture of her and put it up on a big bus stop billboard in Adelaide, Australia.

      The thing is though, no one at Virgin Mobile cared to contact her or her friend (who took the picture) to get permission. And the billboard is kinda making fun of her. And she's a minor. And I just don't think that's cool.

      There's a whole discussion about this (and the Creative Commons Law that "allows" Virgin to put up other people's pictures without notifying them) at this link (http://www.flickr.com/groups/central/discuss /72157600541608353/) But, after consulting some legal counsel, it does seem like Virgin should have gotten a model release form from my parents regarding my sister's image in their ad campaign. The Creative Commons law covers the producer of the image, not the models in the image.

      Currently, I am working with a US attorney on researching some precedence here with big companies mis-using other people's images and privacy invasion. And, I just wanted to try and notify the people on Flickr whose pictures are being used in this ad campaign and let them know what we're doing. It seems as if Virgin Mobile didn't notify ANYONE of the use of their Flickr pictures.

      Anyway, if you're interested in keeping up with the situation, please check the links below and/or send me an email at:

      damon@teacherjames.com

      flickr.com/photos/sesh00/515961023/

      www.flickr.com/groups/central/discuss/7215760 0541608353/

      Thanks,

      Damon

    7. Gaetan Lee (71 months ago | reply)

      Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Virgin Mobile - Are you with us or what?, and we'd love to have your photo added to the group.

    8. shimmertje (71 months ago | reply)

      Thanks for the invite, Gaetan, and the headsup, Barney and Damon. I've seen a number of Virgin ads at the bus stops around Brisbane. If I catch them again I'll try to get more pix, but they would probably be on zoom cos they're not my stops :)

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      DOliphant and artistic_weird03 added this photo to their favorites.

    10. Todd M Walker (69 months ago | reply)

      Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Mobile Phone Marketing, and we'd love to have your photo added to the group.

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      DubSnipe added this photo to his favorites. (67 months ago)

    12. Virgin Mobile Think Hatke (63 months ago | reply)

      Virgin Mobile now launched in India too in collaboration with TATA Teleservices... check out the pics in my profile... lol.... but they havnt yet flicked our pics here,,,,,hehehe

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      Ballistik Coffee Boy, Aaralyn-Kaye, Mrtazman_2006, and Virgin953 added this photo to their favorites.

    14. fourstarcashiernathan (47 months ago | reply)

      I think the USA should have advertisements like this lol...the controversy it would bring...ESPECIALLY if they advertised like this at US Wal-Mart stores! Bring it on!

      PS I love this advertisement...I'm a passionate prepaid phone salesman and are amused by things like this...

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    16. shimmertje (28 months ago | reply)

      @Virgin Mobile: Think they aren't interested in Flicking any more pics :)

      @Fourstarcashier: It IS an interesting ad :)

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      southstreetphoto added this photo to their favorites. (15 months ago)

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