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April 18, 2008
State Farm Discontinues Its “Humiliated Cyclist” Ad
Our State Farm Ad Nauseam featuring "Jim" the humiliated bike commuter drew a lot of interest. The post was picked up all over, generated more than 10,000 YouTube views and, along with all of last week's congestion pricing-related web traffic, it crashed our server on Friday.
April 11, 2008
State Farm Looks to Engage Cycling Community
Responding to criticism of an ad depicting a humiliated office worker forced to bike to his job due to high gas prices, State Farm Director of Marketing Communications Tim Van Hoof writes:
April 7, 2008
Investor’s Magazine: Hooray for Highways! Boo for Gas Taxes!
The Investor's Business Daily has written an editorial extolling the virtues of wider freeways and lower gas taxes. It's a great piece of car culture thinking from the last century. Taken with State Farm's advertisement bashing bike commuters as poorly dressed losers, it really shows how far we still have to go.
April 3, 2008