{"id":36723,"date":"2023-06-10T17:15:11","date_gmt":"2023-06-10T16:15:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsblogsnew.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=36723"},"modified":"2023-06-10T17:14:23","modified_gmt":"2023-06-10T16:14:23","slug":"tcd-incredible-photos-showing-how-a-new-billboard-law-has-completely-transformed-this-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=36723","title":{"rendered":"TCD: Incredible photos showing how a new \u2018billboard law\u2019 has completely transformed this city"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/w\/index.php?curid=25610236\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-36724\" src=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/1_times_square_night_2013_digital_billboards_chensiyuan_wikipedia.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a>The Cool Down (TCD) has reported on a recent Reddit post highlighting the impact of a Polish law that limits the placement of billboards throughout the country.<\/h3>\n<h6><em>image for illustration: <a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/w\/index.php?curid=25610236\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Times Square<\/a> digital billboards by chensiyua, CC BY-SA 4.0 Wikipedia<\/em><\/h6>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The Cool Down (TCD) writes:<\/p>\n<p>\u2026This comes after towns and cities across Poland have taken action to limit such large advertisements in order to protect the design and architecture of the surrounding area.<\/p>\n<p>As shared in a photo on Reddit, the entire side of one enormous building was originally used for advertisements. Now, you can see the actual building below&#8230;\u2019<\/p>\n<p>A report by WARC shows that 75% of businesses believe their sales would drop if they didn\u2019t have billboards. While driving or passing through a city, billboards act as a prompt for brands and products, working on our subconscious to slowly make products seem more necessary to us over time.<\/p>\n<p>What\u2019s more, in the case of digital billboards in particular, the environmental cost of billboards is surprisingly high\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Reddit users are happy to see the change, celebrating the return of standard architecture in place of the enormous advertising materials\u2026<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecooldown.com\/green-business\/reddit-poland-billboard-law\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more&#8230;.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Cool Down (TCD) has reported on a recent Reddit post highlighting the impact of a Polish law that limits the placement of billboards throughout the country. image for illustration: Times Square digital billboards by chensiyua, CC BY-SA 4.0 Wikipedia<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sector-newsblog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36723","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36723"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36723\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36725,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36723\/revisions\/36725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}