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* ''[[http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/valente_08_12/ Fade to White]]'', an AlternateHistory short story by Creator/CatherynneMValente, is set in a post-WorldWarIII United States that deliberately maintains the facade of TheFifties. The Department of Advertising and Information is the largest employer outside the military, bombarding the populace with adds for cosmetics to hide the effects of radiation poisoning, beer laced with hormone suppressants to discourage infertile men from mating with fertile women (reserved for the few fertile [[BabyFactory Husbands]]), vegetables designed to leech poisons from the soil, and caffeine-laced products to maintain everyone's StepfordSmiler approach to what's actually a CrapsackWorld that's slowly dying out.

* The second episode of ''Series/BlackMirror'', "[[Recap/BlackMirrorFifteenMillionMerits 15 Million Merits]]" depicts a future where every wall is covered in UsefulNotes/{{Kinect}}-powered flatscreen [=TVs=] playing a nonstop stream of adverts for talent shows, gameshows and porn. They ''can'' be skipped -- but doing so costs the viewer money -- and while an advert is playing the door to your flat locks itself. Looking away from the TV earns [[SensoryAbuse loud tones and a voice demanding that you RESUME VIEWING RESUME VIEWING RESUME VIEWING]].

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* ''ComicBook/GorskyAndButch'' did it as a one-shot gag in a ''Franchise/StarTrek'' parody -- one of the crewmen comes from a race of Board, who can assimilate any surface into advertising space. Cut to the captain staring at his red and black fleet uniform now turned into Marlboro logo.
* The ''Status 7'' duology ( From the creators of Górsky and Butch mentioned above) is set in a cyberpunk Warsaw overloaded with ads, this sets up some [[FunnyBackgroundEvent visual gags]] such as local Polish brands having enormous corporate HQ's dwarfing regular skyscrapers and a RunningGag where any and all advertising uses SexSells no matter how mundane the product which leads to some downright bizarre ads.

* ''Fanfic/Plan7Of9FromOuterSpace''

* ''Captain Proton and the Planet of Lesbians''. A RunningGag involves the VideoPhone messages from the President of Earth being infiltrated by an "advertising virus", causing him to spout off advertisements for Extra-Strength Viagra or the William Shatner Hair Clinic.
* ''Fanfic/RocketshipVoyager''. [=TuV'k=] is trying to meditate at an ancient ruin on Mars when he's interrupted by an American robot advertising fast-food burgers, which in turn is interrupted by a [[SpaceColdWar Soviet robot spreading Communist propaganda]]. The two robots end up crushed under the ruins after [[InYourNatureToDestroyYourselves knocking them down while fighting each other]].

* ''WesternAnimation/WallE'':
** There's enormous television screens everywhere on Earth, which presumably are intended to share information with the people but generally are just covered with advertisements for [[MegaCorp Buy n Large]] and the ''Axiom'' space liner. On the former Buy n Large website, the company claims to have bought and licenced ''north''. Compasses now point you towards "Buy n Large North". They call this [[{{Pun}} Directional Advertising]].
** On the ''Axiom'' itself the advertising is even more omnipresent, including such gems as telling the red-suited denizens to "try blue, it's the new red" and a brief glimpse into the ship's daycare.
-->'''Robot teacher:''' "'A' is for Axiom, your home sweet home. 'B' is for Buy n Large, your very best friend."

* Almost all buildings in ''Film/BladeRunner'' feature animated advertisements that show a geisha taking some pills and drinking Coca-Cola that play constantly. ''Blade Runner'' helped popularize this trope in the {{Cyberpunk}} Genre.

* ''Film/{{Idiocracy}}'' uses this trope heavily: in 2505 politicians are paid to fill their speeches with ProductPlacement, all clothing has corporate logos on it, and even names mostly consist of products (the president's middle name is "Mountain Dew").
* ''Film/JosieAndThePussycats'', in its parody of pop music and youth consumerism, takes place in an Advert-Overloaded ''Present''. [[BoyBand Dujour]]'s private jet is branded with the Target logo inside and out, while every inch of [[BigApplesauce New York]] looks like Times Square.

* May not be a perfect example, since ''Franchise/StarWars'' is set "a long time ago", but ''Film/AttackOfTheClones'' showed Coruscant's lower levels overrun with advertisement. ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsTheCloneWars'' portrays it similarly. The rest of the planet, though, is either much better or much worse.

* The UrExample might be Creator/HGWells's ''Literature/TheSleeperAwakes'', [[OlderThanTheyThink written between 1898 and 1910]], where the London of the 2100s is covered in advertising hoardings. [[CorruptChurch Especially the churches]]. Wells also used the idea in ''A Story of the Days to Come'', written around the same time and also set in the 22nd century.
* This trope is a major focus of the Creator/FrederikPohl classic humorous novels ''Literature/TheSpaceMerchants'', ''The Merchants' War'' and ''The Merchants of Venus''. The first, in particular, featured advertisers competing to come up with new--and usually horrific--ways to promote their clients' goods. Advertising so dominates cultural life that the Metropolitan Museum of Art is exhibiting the Maidenform "I Dreamed" ads in its Classics wing. Then again, the narrative of ''The Space Merchants'' is largely colored by the perspective of its protagonist, an advertising man who gets sorely disappointed when reading old library books with no ads in them.
** Horrific as the advertising is in ''The Space Merchants'', in ''The Merchant's War'' it's made worse with the introduction of "Campbell areas", where anyone who enters one is subjected to remote limbic system stimulation, creating instant addiction to a particular product. The only cure is [[spoiler:being subjected to counter-conditioning -- basically associating the product with being tortured; the cure has a significant fatality rate.]]
* Creator/FritzLeiber's ''The Last Letter'' is this, where citizens are confronted with billboards, radio jingles, mail, and even phone calls which feature nothing but advertisements.
* Creator/RayBradbury:
** ''The Murderer'' features a man futilely destroying the myriad loudspeakers, radios, [=TVs=], etc., which endlessly broadcast commercials at the populace.
** In ''Literature/Fahrenheit451'', Montag tries to read on the subway, but he's constantly distracted by a jingle for Denham's Dentifrice. He eventually screams at the radio to shut up, shocking the rest of the passengers who were singing along.
* ''Literature/Feed2002'' is set in a world where people can have tiny computers implanted in their heads. Advertisments are then pumped directly into their brain.
* Creator/RobertAHeinlein's ''Literature/PodkayneOfMars''. While on Venus people are constantly barraged by ads. Podkayne and Gertie even have a hologram of a devil appear inside their taxi and try to get them to buy an addictive drink called Hi-Ho. The company that makes it pays the taxi company to force the ads on their captive customers, though the passengers can bribe the cabbie to at least lower the volume.
* In the Literature/{{Lensman}} verse, among most sentient species it's considered slightly shameful (akin to losing a video game on Super Easy mode) to ''notice'' an advertisement. At one point Virgil Samms is in a "taxi" with a member of an alien race that has no eyes and relies instead on a sense that detects mass directly somehow. The driver is obligingly sharing this sense of perception with Samms (through Samms' Lens, which gives him a kind of telepathy), when Samms notices that there's a little nondescript mound by the side of the road that's opaque to this mass sense. He asks the driver about it, and the driver basically tells him "Oh, I didn't think you'd be interested" and focuses on it intentionally for a second, revealing that it translates to "Eat Teegmee's Food." The fact that the Rigellians ignore advertisements gives Samms hope that maybe they're more like humans than they appear to be.
* In ''Literature/TheUnidentified'' by Rae Mariz, Katey (aka "Kid") goes to a school that is run by corporations. They monitor the students' activities for market research.
* In Creator/RichardKMorgan's novel ''[[Literature/TakeshiKovacs Altered Carbon]]'' the advertising in the slums uses such intrusive methods that the cabs have some sort of screening technology to filter them out and protect the passengers. When the main character asks for the filter to be lowered so he can get a feel for the area, he's bombarded with a seething mass of subliminal and semi-hypnotic advertising, mostly for narcotics and prostitutes.
* Creator/TerryPratchett demanded his publishers pull out of a deal with a German publishing company, when he realised the company involved saw nothing wrong with peppering the German editions of the Literature/{{Discworld}} with text-breaking adverts for completely unrelated products.
* In ''Literature/SnowCrash'', neon advertising is so inescapable that they've coined a term ("loglo") for the everpresent reddish light around a city. Its sort-of-sequel ''The Diamond Age'' is a world where microtechnology has made advertising literally ubiquitous, and one character made his fortune by realizing you could advertise on chopsticks.
* In the novelisation of ''Literature/RedDwarf'', the mission of the ''Nova 5'' (the ship the crew eventually found Kryten on) was to write a Coca-Cola slogan in the sky ''by blowing up hundreds of stars into supernovas''.
* Most sophonts in the galactic community of ''Literature/TroyRising'' have been fitted with implanted computer/communications technology. The newly-implanted (which for most species except humanity means children/adolescents) tend to rely on external AIs shielding them from/proxying local hypernet access until they learn how to use their implant's pop-up blockers, or risk sensory overload.
* "Literature/TheRoom", a ShortStory by Creator/RayRussell, has ads being printed on everything (clothes, money, ''toilet paper'', between the lines of newspaper articles), along with always-on daytime television, SubliminalAdvertising in bathroom mirrors, doorbells that play commercial jingles, and ads projected on room ceilings.
* ''[[http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/valente_08_12/ Fade to White]]'', an AlternateHistory short story by Creator/CatherynneMValente is set in a post-WorldWarIII United States that deliberately maintains the facade of TheFabulousFifties. The Department of Advertising and Information is the largest employer outside the military, bombarding the populace with adds for cosmetics to hide the effects of radiation poisoning, beer laced with hormone suppressants to discourage infertile men from mating with fertile women (reserved for the few fertile [[BabyFactory Husbands]]), vegetables designed to leech poisons from the soil, and caffeine-laced products to maintain everyone's StepfordSmiler approach to what's actually a CrapsackWorld that's slowly dying out.
* The Creator/CharlesStross novel ''Literature/HaltingState'' portrays Europe TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture thusly, often tied into the fact that most people use their smartphones and augmented-reality glasses to interact with the world and each other, usually in the form of remarkably well-tailored (and rather intrusive) targeted advertising referencing such things as workplace politics ''in their specific office''. People using public transportation similarly have advertisements projected onto the windows for their viewing pleasure.
* The titular [[CityPlanet city-planet]] Riesel in ''Literature/RieselTalesTwoHunters''. Ads are everywhere, even in ''orbit'', and advertise just about anything. Considering the planet's status as an [[WretchedHive immoral and crime-infested cesspool]], the characters occasionally see things [[{{Squick}} they wish they hadn't]].
* In the BadFuture chapter of ''Literature/CloudAtlas'', adverts are regularly projected onto the Moon -- and it's been that way for at least a generation.

* In a future China from ''Literature/TheBonesOfTime'' by Kathleen Ann Goonan, one of the [[AutomatedAutomobiles self-driving cabs]] Lynn and Akamu board is overly-riddled with this. Ads glow on every interior surface, utilizing a soft purr of English and Japanese, Others appear and disappear, at times overlapping along the driveway pavements, holoing when cars approach to allow unhindered passage. The earlier mentioned taxi even dispenses free perfume for the riders to sample.
* In ''Literature/SistersOfTheVastBlack'', Sister Faustina opens a message from a colony, only to be bombarded with advertisements about food, ship repair and a moon base.
* In ''Literature/HoshiAndTheRedCityCircuit'', corporate chip readers that float outside shopping centers bombard pedestrians with personalized ads based on their ID chips.

** In ''Exit Strategy'', Murderbot tries to access the feed on [=TranRollinHyfa=], but any useful information is obscured by the static created by competing corporation advertisements who are trying to drown out the adds of their rivals.

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* [[Music/BigData "The Business of Emotion."]]
* Music/SigueSigueSputnik has this as part of their image of the future, and ran with it as they sold advert spaces in their lyrics booklets and even in the spaces of their songs.
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* The Creator/DavidFirth segments in ''[[Series/{{Screenwipe}} Charlie Brooker's Screenwipe]]'' show a future where the year 2008 (the segment was first aired in 2007) is bought by a marketing company which then forces everyone on the planet to end their conversations by linking arms and declaring "This conversation was brought to you by X".

* Downplayed trope in ''TabletopGame/TranshumanSpace''. The cover of ''Toxic Memes'' shows a woman with various Augumented Reality "screens" hovering around her, about half of which seem to be advertising. However, the text of the books says most AR systems have pretty good adblock if you want it.

* ''VideoGame/ANNOMutationem'': Being set in a PostCyberpunk metropolis, the cities of Skopp and Noctis display a massive amount of advertisements from multiple corporations with a variety of other cultures and ethnicities with showings of [[VirtualCelebrity Virtual Idols]] and new products developed by [[MegaCorp The Tithonus Group]].
* The Tank weaponizes this in ''VideoGame/MondayNightCombat''. His Product Grenade blares ads across enemies' vision and hearing for a few seconds.

* ''VideoGame/TheOuterWorlds'': Halcyon is run by an alliance of mega-corporations known as the Board, so there are advertisements ''everywhere''. This is especially prevalent on the Groundbreaker, a former colony ship that serves as a major trading hub.
* In the 2013 ''VideoGame/SimCity'' game and expansion pack Cities of Tomorrow, many of the futurized buildings and mega-towers are loaded to some degree with holographic signs and billboards. Some of these billboards are actually describing the building's function (Such as "Sky Bridge Terminal" or "Maglev"), while others are just of the standard commercial and industrial variety. They even have signs with a panda on it for some reason...
* The cityscapes of ''VideoGame/StarcraftII'' contain enormous flashing billboards for various products (Nuke Noodles comes to mind) and propaganda posters, some of which you get to kill.
* ''Videogame/EYEDivineCybermancy'''s industrial and habitation zones are piled high with neon adverts and signs. One map includes a [[Film/BladeRunner blimp flying over the city covered in advertisements for offworld colonies]].

* In ''Videogame/XRebirth'', space stations are plastered with advertisements for their products and their interiors likewise are full of scrolling ads. Taken to the next level in the ''Home Of Light'' ExpansionPack, where the eponymous star system has omnipresent advertisements; dedicated advertisement "Zepp" ships fly around the zones, the [[FuturisticSuperhighway highway system's]] district signs are surrounded by holographic advertisements, and the independent habitat stations are covered wall-to-wall in blindingly bright ads.
* ''Franchise/DeadSpace'' features posters with ads for Unitology and something called "Peng", as well as "reminders" about safety aboard the Ishimura.

* Something of an EnforcedTrope in ''VideoGame/Cyberpunk2077'', which features [[WretchedHive Night City]] crammed full of advertising in everywhere from elevators to billiards tables, a side effect of corporations filling the void left by the government after the Fourth Corporate War. SexSells in particular is in full effect, with some ads being borderline pornographic.

* The rounds introduced in the futuristic Season 4 of ''VideoGame/FallGuysUltimateKnockout'' have brand logos plastered all over the place. These brands include: BLAM Inflatables, WIG Industries, and EGG (yes, just "EGG"). The WIG Industries logo also appears at the end of Season 4's final release trailer. You can even have your Fall Guy be a walking billboard with the Ad Guy pattern, which adorns your guy with ads and logos.
* In ''VisualNovel/{{Sunrider}}'', the economic center of the Solar Alliance is a space station called the Astrium. It is crammed full of colorful holographic billboards advertising all manner of products, inside and out.

* In the [=NoCoZo=] of ''Website/OrionsArm'' a common way to earn credits is to have animated adverts tattooed on your body.
* In ''Script/C0DA'', [[ArcVillain The Intellective]] is attempting to invade the reality of the work with his Videoverse, a universe of melting screens and advertisements. "MY GOD, IT’S FULL OF COMMERCIALS!"

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Amphibia}}'': {{Inverted}} in the case of [[Characters/AmphibiaNewtopia Newtopia]]. "True Colors" and "The Core and the King" show that a thousand years ago, Newtopia [[spoiler:during its era of trans-dimensional [[PlanetLooters planet-looting]] under [[BigBad the Core]]'s direction]] had [[spoiler:holographic]] banners all over the streets; featuring newts, silhouettes resembling the king (implying propaganda), and enlistenment-esque adverts calling on citizens to support the city's efforts [[spoiler:to invade and conquer other worlds for Newtopia's advancement]].
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'' episode "[[Recap/FuturamaS1E6AFishfulOfDollars A Fishful of Dollars]]" uses and to some extent parodies the trope. In the future, adverts can be beamed into people's dreams [[TechnoBabble in the form of gamma radiation]], effectively filling them with product placement.
* In the ''[[WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons Simpsons]]'' episode "Holidays of Future Passed", it seems they have figured out how to make pop-up ads out of the stars themselves!

* ''Film/{{Anon}}'': Large {{augmented reality}} advertisements are displayed all over the major skyscrapers, shops have AR models outside their stores, and window shopping is a whole lot more literal when the technology can simulate you wearing whatever is in the window.

* ''Film/{{Branded}}'' is about a future where advertising is not only everywhere but it controls people's minds as well.

* The city of Cy in ''Cyborg2022'' has skies that are virtually saturated with ads, one of the many things wrong with the place.

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* In the [=NoCoZo=] of ''WebOriginal/OrionsArm'' a common way to earn credits is to have animated adverts tattooed on your body.

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* ''Film/{{Anon}}''. Large {{augmented reality}} advertisements are displayed all over the major skyscrapers, shops have AR models outside their stores, and window shopping is a whole lot more literal when the technology can simulate you wearing whatever is in the window.

* ''Film/BabylonAD''. The protagonists fly into New York on an airliner with a [[ProductPlacement Coke Zero ad painted across its entire surface]]. The city is a nightmare of migraine-inducing neon ads covering pretty much every surface of every larger building, interspersed with beams of powerful spotlights stabbing into the sky.

* The film ''Film/{{Branded}}'' is about a future where advertising is not only everywhere, but it controls people's minds as well.

* In the 1959 Soviet film ''Nebo Zovyot'' there's a TakeThat against the capitalist system with American astronauts being forced to read commercials during their flight to Mars (the scene became HarsherInHindsight when Russian astronauts had to do this in real life to support their cash-strapped space program). America is shown to be full of garish neon signs plugging space-related products.
* In the film adaptation of ''Film/ReadyPlayerOne'', in the contest for control of the world-spanning, world-changing "Oasis" [[TheMetaverse Metaverse]] software, there's a scene showing that if [[MegaCorp Innovative Online Industries]] wins, they've already got it down to a science ''how many'' advertisements they'll be able to spam everyone with constantly before there's risk of a seizure.

* In ''Film/TotalRecall1990'' there are video screens in the subway trains showing constant ads. Two ads in particular, the Rekall and North West ones, hint at what Quaid's next move will be in the plot.