All the Ads in This London Subway Station Have Been Replaced by Pictures of Cats

[brooklynite]

AdWeek:

It isn't often in advertising that we get a happy ending that isn't totally fictional and "brought to you by." But here one is, in all its furry glory!

In early May, we wrote about Glimpse Collective's Kickstarter quest to replace all the ads in a London Underground station with images of cats. By the end of that month, U.K. animal rescue center Battersea joined forces with them, offering its cats up as models, in hopes that nice Londoners would experience love at first sight.

Despite that endorsement, things weren't looking good. In the last few days of their campaign, Glimpse—which created the Citizens Advertising Takeover Service, or #CatsNotAds—had raised $17,487, just over half of its objective (£23,000, or nearly $30,500). The company appealed to agency heads to provide rescue funds, and we closed our minds and hearts, awaiting the inevitable snuffing-out of a beautiful dream.

But this week we discovered God exists, and loves us. On Monday morning, commuters passing through London's Clapham Common Tube station were accosted by feline friends.

[packman]

1. Cats, cats, cats

With that look of expectation, boredom or "I know what you did".

[tclambert]

2. What did cats do before there were cameras?

Why were they so photogenic for millions of years before the invention of photography?



(Obvious answer: Napping.)

[maddiemom]

3. They had to be carved on Egyption tombs before there were cameras.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

4. Cats are why photography was invented. Also the Internet.

[shenmue]

5. Squeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

[Loryn]

6. I love this!

[klook]

7. New effort to reduce rodent infestations in Tube stations.

Fun idea - I like it.

[DinahMoeHum]

8. "Big Pussy" Is Watching You.