Video Ads Now at Gas Pumps
February 9th, 2009
I was recently at a Shell gas station near Hagerstown, Maryland that has video monitors above all the gas pumps. Once you activate the pump and begin pumping gas it starts playing commercials. You’ll get anything from commercials for upcoming TV shows to commercials for products or companies. Once you quit pumping it shuts back off.
Reminds me of the targeted billboards people joked about 5 years ago. I wonder if everybody gets the same ads or if it has some mechanism to target you via your credit card or car you drive. That’d be scary.
