Windows gets free advertising from the Las Vegas hotel Fontainebleu

[Windows Central]

It's always fun to see the proverbial man behind the curtain, in this case, the Hotel Fontainebleau displayed a Windows desktop powering its giant LED sign.

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[wojtek]

> It's hard to argue against the effectiveness of displaying a large advertisement for the city of Las Vegas to see. Just last week,

While true - it's darn effective, I love current trend and push towards banning marketing /ads in public spaces as its just visual noise ruining most of the cities (save for Las Vegas, which was basically built atop of such crap )

 

[jlzimmerman]

Would you want a Sphere or large LED sign in your city? Do you think these billion-dollar corporations should use a bespoke operating system for these signs? Let us know in the comments.

It's great advertisment but terrible for light pollution which is already a huge problem.

 

[Colton Stradling]

Those are some great points. Light pollution and visual noise are definitely an issue that should be considered. It reminds me of Daredevil on Netflix where Daredevil lives in an apartment across from a huge neon sign and he was able to get the apartment for cheap because he wasn't bothered by the visual noise ruining the apartment for everybody else.

 

[wojtek]

Well, small comparison from my corner of the universe - in Poland there is push to ban/curb public advertisement (obviously there is awful pushback from marketing companies). Majority of those are luckily not neon/LED/light but still it makes a lot of difference - here's an article with comparison before/after: https://www.trojmiasto.pl/wiadomosci/Metamorfoza-Wrzeszcza-po-uchwale-krajobrazowej-n152416.html (use the slider). IMHO cities without ads looks way, way better...

 

[HelloNNNewman]

Well, small comparison from my corner of the universe - in Poland there is push to ban/curb public advertisement (obviously there is awful pushback from marketing companies). Majority of those are luckily not neon/LED/light but still it makes a lot of difference - here's an article with comparison before/after: https://www.trojmiasto.pl/wiadomosci/Metamorfoza-Wrzeszcza-po-uchwale-krajobrazowej-n152416.html (use the slider). IMHO cities without ads looks way, way better...

Wow.... I love those after pics on the slider comparisons. All of that constant in-you-face advertising is so ugly you forget how peaceful and pleasant areas look without it all!