Weed advertising: Verizon

dandelions in Verizon advertisement, a photo by Vilseskogen on Flickr.

On Verizon Wireless latest poster for their new Samsung smartphone they put a nice fruiting dandelion on the screen. Now why?

Dandelions are kind of like wireless, spread effortlessly with the wind, nearly invisible... Or maybe they just followed the example of the iphone4's poison ivy weed theme..? :)

Species: dandelion, Taraxacum officinale, Asteraceae

Company named after weeds: Dandelion Corporation

Dandelion Corporation is an advertising company in Newport Beach, CA, USA has a homepage with a dandelion on it.  'Like dandelion fruits we want to spread our ads through the air', or something like that.  They actually didn't say that, it is my interpretation on why you would want to pick Dandelion as your company profile.  Millions of little downy parachutes sailing effortlessly through the air, spreading your marketing efforts. Here is the homepage, and I especially like the soil on the bottom.

Species: dandelion (Taraxacum officinale, Asteraceae)

Weeds in advertising: GM China

A giant field full of dandelion heads releasing their seeds in the wind, who would have thought of that as an ad for GM? Link to image and info: Print advertisement for GM China by Bates Advertising.

I guess GM wants the symbolism of all the green, as in green = good, or is it something about weeds spreading far and taking over?

(species: dandelion, Taraxacum officinale, Asteraceae)