I don’t usually feel like ad campaigns are talking to me, but over the past few months I’ve found myself noticing, and loving, Manhattan Mini-Storage’s campaign. In addition to making me laugh, it’s made me feel real pride that New York is the kind of place where an advertising campaign like this could actually bring in customers.
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I don’t know, it kind of seems like they’re cynically manipulating the bottomless self-regard of Manhattanites as being infinitely wiser and more enlightened than the rubes with pitchforks in flyover country.
I’ve been in flyover country and came back less than a year ago. New Yorkers are definitely wiser (but not infinitely so) than the rubes. We didn’t elect a Rick Scott or Scott Walker did we?
I don’t usually feel like ad campaigns are talking to me, but over the past few months I’ve found myself noticing, and loving, Manhattan Mini-Storage’s campaign. In addition to making me laugh, it’s made me feel real pride that New York is the kind of place where an advertising campaign like this could actually bring in customers.
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