{"id":9427,"date":"2011-07-15T13:29:21","date_gmt":"2011-07-15T13:29:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/e-commerce\/ingenious_new_ad_format_charges_phones.html"},"modified":"2011-07-15T13:29:21","modified_gmt":"2011-07-15T13:29:21","slug":"ingenious-new-ad-format-charges-phones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/technology\/ingenious-new-ad-format-charges-phones.html","title":{"rendered":"Ingenious New Ad Format Charges Phones"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/uploads\/vitaminwater-bus-station-image.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"mt-image-none\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/assets_c\/2011\/07\/vitaminwater-bus-station-image-thumb-500x296-9598.jpg\" alt=\"vitaminwater-bus-station-image.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"296\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve seen the pods in the airport which charge your devices &#8211; often sponsored by Samsung. But now the idea has gone to the next level with an ad in a bus shelter from Vitamin Water which has an outlet allowing you to plug in and get some juice while you wait for your public transportation.<\/p>\n<p>I am sensing an opportunity for Starbucks and other restaurants and retailers to start offering charging sponsorships as well. Very cool. Picture is courtesy of <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2011\/07\/15\/vitaminwater-bus-stations\/?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Mashable+%28Mashable%29&amp;utm_content=Google+Reader\">Mashable<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I for one hope the food court in LaGuardia Airport gets into the game soon. This <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/personal\/at-laguardia-airport-wondering-why-power-outlets-dont-work.html\">picture below<\/a> shows you what the outlets there look like currently.<\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;d think we live in the third or fourth-world by the condition of many of the US airports.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/uploads\/laguardia-airport-broken-power-outlet.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"mt-image-none\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/assets_c\/2010\/10\/laguardia-airport-broken-power-outlet-thumb-500x373-8219.jpg\" alt=\"laguardia-airport-broken-power-outlet.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"373\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve seen the pods in the airport which charge your devices &#8211; often sponsored by Samsung. But now the idea has gone to the next level with an ad in a bus shelter from Vitamin Water which has an outlet allowing you to plug in and get some juice while you wait for your public<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172,196,118,175],"tags":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9427"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9427"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9427\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}