It’s been a while since we’ve added to our “vertising” list but, today, we have a new candidate: thumb-verstising. As part of a new Sara Lee Coffee campaign to promote the company’s “coffee pods” that turn into a drink when pumped with thumbs, the brand co-ops thumb-vertising, a movement that offers up thumbs as the next great medium. The site is complete with all you’d normally find on an new ad medium’s site: services, case studies, diagrams, surveys and, for those willing to lend their thumbs to the cause, a chance to win a Wii. It’s reported “thumbers” are rising subways across Europe holding their thumbs up for hours, promoting thumb-vertising clients. There have been several reports of marketers running towards thumb-vertising trampling those still scurrying for yesterday’s medium of the moment: Second Life
