Cranky Old Man Complains About Converse Ads
Attention guerrilla marketers: Stay away from Portland, Oregon. Dale Waagmeester has had it up to here with your hip, pop-culture infused posters promoting the latest “cool clothes,” “hot energy drink” or “Andre the Giant.” He’s mad as hell, and he’s not going to take it anymore.
Case in point, as reported by THE OREGONIAN: the anti-graffiti crusader sees a guerrilla marketing team putting up some ads for Converse on a vacant building. Waagmeester proceeds to pitch a fit, demands that the posters be taken down and calls the cops. Converse has egg on its face and gets to test the “any publicity is good publicity” theory.
