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Look up at the night sky in 2020 and you might see an ad for McDonald's floating among the stars. A startup is planning to use a constellation of tiny satellites to create glowing ads. The satellites would light up different messages for up to six minutes at a time at about 250 miles above Earth.
Also at Futurism.
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Can anyone remember when the times were not hard, and money not scarce?
(Score: 5, Interesting) by isostatic on Saturday January 19 2019, @03:43PM (1 child)
In cities they won't be bright enough, half the planet is covered in clouds anyway. The number of people looking at the night sky in a given 6 minute window is tiny.
(Score: 2) by SomeGuy on Saturday January 19 2019, @08:12PM
I dunno. Never underestimate the ability of a marketing exec to be a dick. They would happily do it even if it doesn't make a lick of sense.
On the other hand I have seen plenty of advertising methods come and go. A few years back when it was trendy, the Walmart here put up video displays everywhere spewing obnoxious dizzying looping advertisements. Apparently they were too hard to maintain, and at least some people made a point to avoid areas where these were. Eventually they just started looping music or got turned off. Most of those are gone now.