‘Billboard Gets The Boot’ – Caption Competition

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

We had a good response to our first ever caption competition – some of you may have not taken us seriously with the ‘competition’ bit – anyway we are and WERE seriously inviting you to submit your captions for the picture shown above – taken in Montreal exactly a week ago.

My personal favourite is from Bryan Crotaz at AMX / Inspired Signage who was the first to comment and gave us the caption ‘Billboard gets the boot’ !!!

The owner of this grey Vauxhall parked in a side street in Montreal will have come back to his car only to find one of the vains from the (traditional) billboard (shown on the left of the picture) has fallen off and into the rear window of his / her vehicle.

Some of the entries that we have received to date include…

  • Hello, Tech Support? I’ve got another crashed screen…
  • Windows and Signage, never a good combo…
  • D’OOH! (not)
  • Ad cuts hit hard
  • Ad cuts hit consumers!
  • My French blinds always do that too!
  • So that’s what they mean by ‘Customer Interaction with Media’
  • Drive-in advertising!
  • Shock Billboard Entry Wins 2009 Turner Prize

We will leave the competition open for one more week – the winner as chosen by our editorial team will get one of our first ever T-Shirts and a Book.


18 Responses to “‘Billboard Gets The Boot’ – Caption Competition”

  1. Bryan Crotaz Says:

    Billboard gets the boot!
    Thus the vain are fallen?
    Digital – works across ALL verticals!
    Digital works on Windows – not through them!

  2. Steve Castellotti Says:

    Hello, Tech Support? I’ve got another crashed screen…

  3. Nick Ratcliffe Says:

    Windows and Signage, never a good combo…

  4. Clam Says:

    D’OOH! (not)

  5. Anonymous Says:

    Ad cuts hit hard

  6. In Says:

    Ad cuts hit consumers!

  7. Brad Says:

    My French blinds always do that too!

  8. Jason Cremins Says:

    So that’s what they mean by ‘Customer Interaction with Media’

  9. Anonymous Says:

    Drive-in advertising!

  10. James Bremner Says:

    Shock Billboard Entry Wins 2009 Turner Prize

  11. billyb Says:

    “Just reboot the player!”

  12. billyb Says:

    Is this what is meant when the term “Pixilation” is used?

  13. Manolo Almagro Says:

    – “wow! that 3D effect on that billboard is SO realistic…”

  14. NeilC Says:

    Astral Media showcase the very latest in customer measurement techniques.
    So much for “The Quiet Revolution”

  15. Bryan Crotaz Says:

    Is this an example of a segmented ad break?

  16. Barnaby Page Says:

    Jacques had never been very good at assembling flat-pack kits…

  17. Greg Jeffreys Says:

    New Louvre Oeuvre – the ad where it’s blowing in the wind

  18. Willo Molini Says:

    A Billboard to Forever Remember…..It just get into you !!!

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