South Park Drove These Mobile Billboards to Places They Weren’t Wanted

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We will never be able to forgive South Park—or thank it enough—for that one time it utterly decimated native advertising in a story arc. But to promote its 20th season, the show briefly took its gaze off current events and launched its own version of a stroll down memory lane.
Angela Natividad is a frequent contributor to Adweek’s creativity blog, AdFreak. She is also the author of Generation Creation and co-founder of Hurrah, an esports agency. She lives in Paris and when she isn’t writing, she can be found picking food off your plate.