SF News The 14 Stereotypes That Facebook Assigns To All Of Us The company that invented the motto “Move fast and break things” certainly managed to break things pretty good during the 2016 election, promoting Russian troll-farm fake news content to as many as 126
SF News Ex-Googler Launches Nonprofit To Stop Google & Facebook From 'Hijacking Our Minds' It is not a particularly unique observation that the culture of constantly looking at our phones has spawned an app economy whose emotional manipulation, trampling of our privacy, and spread of misinformation has
Arts & Entertainment #SubvertTheCity Anti-Ad Campaign Hits SF Bus Shelters If you see something that looks more like art, or like the hand-painted poster above, in a spot that would usually be home to home to an advertisement somewhere around the city, this
Arts & Entertainment SoMa Avocado Mural By John Van Hamersveld Is Subtle Ad With Secret Snapchat Filter The Beatles' Magical Mystery Tour album cover. The Rolling Stones' Exile on Main Street. The poster for The Endless Summer. John Van Hamersveld designed those arresting images and many more. Oh, and here's
Arts & Entertainment The 10 Best Ads Of Super Bowl 50 Super Bowl ads! For some of us who don't mind the corporate shilling, these are the only watchable parts of this national obsession nicknamed The Big Game. As Ad Age tells us, the
Arts & Entertainment Sick Days And Chicken Wings: Super Bowl 50 By The (Dubious) Numbers We all know some of the more painful numbers from the Super Bowl: The money SF expects to spend on the game sans reimbursement, the price this bro was asking for his Super
SF News HA! That Big Verizon Wrap Ad At Embarcadero Center Is Illegal, City Demands Its Removal You know how Verizon and Super Bowl 50 were doing that huge wrap of Four Embarcadero Center over the last two weeks the one that ran into a humorous snafu last week? Some
SF News How SF's Massive Super Bowl Ads Ducked Permit Fees, Billboard Regulations Astute commenters on yesterday's post on Embarcadero Center's Super Bowl wrap fail wondered if such displays violated San Francisco's advertising regulations, and/or if the building owners could be fined for the vast
Arts & Entertainment Video: Watch Buster Posey Deliver A Baby In New Esurance Commercial The always adorable Buster Posey is the latest celebrity to appear in Esurance's new series of ads about imposters who are "sort of" like the real thing in this case Buster is sort
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Burger King Panders To Gay Fast Food Fans With 'Proud Whopper' Stunt At S.F. Pride Burger King scored a potentially viral advertising hit at least among left-wing beef eaters with this new video about the "Proud Whopper," which was launched as a limited promotion at a single location
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Iconic, Wondrous Diet Coke Now Targeting S.F. Techies The relationship between Diet Coke and its users is one fraught with bubbly highs and devastating lows. It's a vulgar, beautiful, intensely complex, and, ultimately, toxic drink. The Dior Poison of sodas. You
SF News Google Will Splash Your Face On Sponsor Endorsements Unless You Opt Out Google wants to make you the new face of [insert brand name here] via a new revision to their terms of service. Basically, the company plans on taking anything you review or rate
SF News Twitter Wants To Run More Video Ads Twitter is racing — racing! — to bring more video advertising to the site. The San Francisco-based company is reportedly in talks with NBC and Viacom to add even more TV content to your favorite
Arts & Entertainment Calvin Klein Underwear Tweet Wins Best Super Bowl 2013 Ad The average cost of a 30-second advertisement to air during Super Bowl XLVII was around $4 million. But among all of the Kate Uptown, GoDaddy (ugh), and Amy Poehler commercials, the real winner
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Video: Brutal Condiment Fight Proves Dolores Park Playground Needs Fence A harrowing scene was captured on tape recently as ranch dressing and ketchup duked it out on the Dolores Park playground. Ranch, the clear winner since it's the superior condiment, was minding its
Arts & Entertainment Confessions Of A San Francisco Parent: Why Do Dads Get The Shaft? By D. Hanousek You may or may not have noticed that two weeks ago, I took the day off from writing . I wasn't going to talk about it because I'm inclined to keep
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Jean Paul Gaultier: New Creative Director Of Diet Coke Before designer étonnant Jean-Paul Gaultier arrives in San Francisco next week to kick off the de Young Museum's Fashion World of Jean Paul Gaultier: From the Sidewalk to the Catwalk, the man who
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Video: Thomas Keller's American Express Ad Makes Us Want To Visit Yountville, Plant Trees Inside Scoop's Paolo Lucchesi brings our attention to a new ad for American Express featuring French Laundry founder and Reese's Peanut Butter Cup lover, Thomas Keller. The commercial, drenched in music written by
Arts & Entertainment Photo: 'Underwear Bomber' Article Meets Unfortunate Ad Placement Today's print edition of The Chronicle features a story about Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, sentenced to life in prison for attempting to bomb a Northwest Airlines plane on Christmas Day 2009 with explosives tucked
Arts & Entertainment The Story Behind That 'Thanks For Paying Taxes' Billboard Drivers coming off the Bay Bridge in to the city during the last week of 2011 will probably recognize this curious billboard message from "The Bay Bridge". The billboard was part of a
SF News Group Of 99% Supporters Wants To Occupy Ad Space In The Chron A small group of East Bay Occupy supporters hopes to put their message in front of thousands of Chronicle subscribers by taking out a full-page ad in the Bay Area's paper of record.
Arts & Entertainment Sign of the Times: Glowing Yahoo! Billboard to Disappear in December After 10 year's proclaiming Yahoo! as "A nice place to stay on the Internet", the web giant's bright, flashy, Interstate 80-adjacent billboard will no longer be be distracting drivers headed for the Bay
Arts & Entertainment What's Going On Here, Brian Wilson? We spotted the below advertisement for Brian Wilson's new offseason gig over on ad industry blog SFEgoist [no relation], and... well, we're not sure exactly what Brian Wilson is trying to pitch here.
SF News Muni Vehicles to Get More Corporate-Sponsored Decorations Or "advertisements" as people in the business like to call them. At yesterday's meeting, the Board of Supervisors narrowly approved an initiative to allow the SFMTA to completely cover Muni buses and trains
SF News Ellis Brooks Chevrolet Sign Dismantled Work on dismantling the semi-iconic Ellis Brooks Chevrolet sign at 1395 Van Ness began over the weekend. Erected in 1955, the sign, according to the people SFist spoke to at Ellis-Brooks, "will have
