Basic Trope: Ads are everywhere in the future.
- Straight: You can't eat without seeing ads on TV, every major street in every big town looks like Times Square in NYC, and every film, series, or comic book issued by the mainstream media runs on Product Placement.
- Exaggerated: Ads occupy all the buildings' walls, newspapers, magazines, TV channels, websites, and are even in your dreams.
- Downplayed: There are slightly more dedicated ad pages in magazines, ad time slots or channels on TV, banners on the Internet, and billboards in the streets. But they aren't that intrusive.
- Justified: The future is run by a (bunch of) MegaCorp(s) that want to promote their goods and/or services to as many consumers as possible, so Nothing Personal.
- Inverted: Ascetic Aesthetic, with no ads at all.
- Subverted: It's actually ironic art, not advertisements.
- Double Subverted: ...which is then used to sell products.
- Parodied: Everything in the future has ads in it: clothes, animals, food, the ground, the wind (which is always whispering "buy our shoes...").
- Zig Zagged: Economic fungibility has advanced such that it is possible to find alternative versions of /everything/ with and without advertising at roughly equivalent prices.
- Averted: The future does not have ads or has a moderate amount of ads.
- Enforced: The creators want a commercialized setting for the story.
- Lampshaded: "Jeez, when did the billboards become too small for you?"
- Implied: Alice, a former Human Popsicle, complains that the future is way too "noisy" but doesn't elaborate on the source - although every piece of future machinery seen so far has been eerily quiet.
- Invoked: ???
- Exploited: Some people use the media to advertise their own products.
- Defied: The characters try to go somewhere without ads, like a forest, a desert, or an uninhabited island in the ocean.
- Discussed:MegaCorp CEO: I say, what do you think about getting ads on every billboard, every channel, every website to catch everyone's eye?
Marketing Dept. Head Manager: That sounds quite impressive, sir. But don't you think that after a while people will grow apathetic towards these ads? - Conversed: "Oh come on, how did every sci-fi writer get the notion that the future must be crammed with advertisement?"
- Played For Laughs: Blimps hover overhead advertising ridiculous products.
- Deconstructed: The people, annoyed by the ads looking at them from every corner, decide to try and ignore them as much as possible, and desperate efforts of the companies to induce interest by putting out more adverts work to increasingly diminishing returns.
- Reconstructed: The businesses turn to more individual-oriented marketing strategies and adjust ads to the target audience (in extreme cases, directly to each person), and it works big time.
- Played For Drama: The world is a Crapsack World run by a MegaCorp, and everyone is depressed by the ads for products they can't afford.
Back to— OW MY EYE! Where did you get so many ads?!
