Cities worldwide are ridding themselves of ‘visual pollution’ by limiting or banning outdoor ads. But in the US, Colossal Media has another solution – its hand-painted billboards live at the intersection of art and advertising, and are just as popular with locals as the brands that commission them.

In a splintered media landscape – where we’re flitting from device to device, bombarded by 360 ads a day – Out of Home advertising remains a constant. After all, you can’t skip a billboard. But that doesn’t mean people like them, either. So what does the future hold for the billboard?

Alice in Wonderland saw a young girl fall down a rabbit hole into a world full of magic and Mad Hatters. Disney’s big screen sequel, Through The Looking Glass, further explores the world where nothing is quite as it seems – and the film’s promotion was executed with the same attitude.

According to research, goldfish now officially have longer attention spans than humans. But is it really that simple? Canvas8 sits down with Faris Yakob, author of Paid Attention: Innovative Advertising for a Digital World to discuss how human attention is changing and why it’s so important.