Culture Jamming Timeline

1990 – ‘Absolut Subliminal’ corporations begin to place less-than-subliminal ads into their advertising, as a response to accusations that subliminal advertising was being used on consumers

1997 – Negativland asked to do a commercial for Miller Genuine Draft beer

1997- New York anti-tobacco lobby group purchased hundreds of rooftop taxi ads to advertise ‘Virginia Slime’ and ‘Cancer Country’ cigarettes

1997 – Toronto-based artist Jubal Brown ‘skulls’ ads of fashion models, creating hundreds of zombie-chic ads all over Toronto

1999 – Nike asks Ralph Nader (consumer rights movement’s most powerful leader) to advertise their shoes for $25,000