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Well, Andrew Cracknell hit a nerve (The Campaign Essay, 15 March), but is he missing the point? Of more concern than ambient media is the share of mind brands vie to capture.
How many messages can we actually consume? A typical day without advertising would include: retail fascias, car marques, transport logos, mobile phones, the magazine you're now reading, your PC, television, clothes, the glasses you're looking through and the label on the drink you're going to need after reading this.
Then there are all the products in the shop windows. How many hundreds of thousands of brand exposures are there in a place such as Bluewater, a brand itself, with its 300 or so shops and eateries? Not too many for the thousands who go there every day. Seemingly we can assimilate an unlimited number of brand images ...