Noun: Human Billboard | Plural Noun: Human Billboards
Human billboard is an early term for sign holder. Most commonly this would refer to people wearing sandwich boards, which can be traced back as early as London in the 1800âs. Human Billboards or human advertisements have been around for centuries. Similarly, Romans would evenplace jugglers and jesters at the end of marketplaces to attract customers to the square. Ye Olde advertisements holdeth thy sign.
Listener John Adams sent in this question: âIs it really worth paying someone to hold a sign, and why is that allowed when putting a sign in the ground is clearly not (or else presumable that’s what companies would do?)â Holding giant cardboard signs, more than a dozen sign spinners stood at a Los Angeles intersection, trying […]
Human Directionals What are these “spinners” holding advertising signs at local intersections listening to?
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