We have discussed about how advertising penetrate into new areas shunning traditional mediums. That is ads appear on elevators and literally creeps over your head. The ads enter even in to your bath room. Then, why not in a jail?
Well, that is what is going to happen at the Queen City's county jail. The jail is selling advertising time on the monitors that inmates use to chat with friends and family during video visits. Through The creative jail authorities hope that this innovative idea can fetch some revenue for the jail. And these ads will be targeted at visitors and relatives of inmates.
Well, of course new. The jail authorities have many options related to this. They can form an ad agency and find out the hidden talents among the inmates, and may be make them creative directors, copy writers, or graphic designers..
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