This year, parks in several states including Idaho and Washington, and the National Park Service, will be blazing a new trail, figuratively at least, as they begin offering opportunities to advertisers within their borders.
King County in Washington, which manages 28,000 acres of parkland surrounding Seattle, offers a full branding menu: Naming rights or sponsorships may be had for park trails, benches and even trees. âMake our five million visitors your next customers,â the county urges potential advertisers. . . .
In May, the National Park Service proposed allowing corporate branding as a matter of âdonor recognition.â As the Washington Post reported, under new rules set to go into effect at the end of the year, âan auditorium at Yosemite National Park named after Coke will now be permittedâ and âvisitors could tour Bryce Canyon in a bus wrapped in the Michelin Man.â
The logic behind these efforts is, in its own way, unimpeachable. Many millions of peopleâthat is, âgreen consumersââvisit parks every day, representing an unrealized marketing opportunity of great value. Yes, parks are meant to be natural, not commercial, but times are tough, or so say the backers of the new schemes. . . .
Some of this reflects technological change, but the real reason is the business model of what I call the âattention merchants.â Unlike ordinary businesses, which sell a product, attention merchants sell people to advertisers. They do so either by finding captive audiences (like at a park or school) or by giving stuff away to gather up consumer data for resale.
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