Houston, We Have Pizza: Advertising in Outer Space
Under the Influence with Terry O'Reilly

Houston, We Have Pizza: Advertising in Outer Space

B2Upper-intermediateOctober 10, 202627 min
  • Business & money

In this episode, we shoot for the moon. Now that commercialized space travel has arrived, the world of marketing is setting its sights on the stars. We’ll talk about ads on rocket ships, ads on spacesuits, and television commercials filmed on the International Space Station. There are companies who want to employ hundreds of tiny satellites to create logos in the night sky. Some companies even want to put ads on the moon. And those ads might even be cheaper than Super Bowl commercials. Fr...

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