Elevator owners are already there, the ones I use all have advertising screens in them just like the gas pumps.
Somehow it didn't bother me then, because everything in that godforsaken city is loud and obnoxious. So it just kinda fit in.
But if elevators at typical office buildings or apartment complexes start doing this? We're doomed.
A news headline and then ads for everything from food to cars to podcasts. Another headline, more ads.
We were on the 45th floor, so there was plenty of captive time.
The biggest company that puts the TVs in elevators is literally called “Captivate.”
Adverts on trains are even worse, I pay £100+ for a ticket and have to suffer the adverts because they want to get another 50p or whatever.
So I'll drive instead. Although the M6 seems to have more and more adverts in fields along it as time does on.
When I'm dictator of the world I'll ban all adverts, they are a drain on society.
The high-rise building I worked in several years ago put ad screens in the elevators. No sound, fortunately - but still! Video ads in your face, on the way to work, on the way to lunch, up and down, over and over, every day? It was more than I could stand.
I bought a roll of privacy film, cut pieces sized to the screens, and kept them in my bag. Every time I was alone in the elevator, I'd pull one out and glue it to the screen. Ahh, tranquility: the ads dissolved into a meaningless colorful blur.
Of course the maintenance folks would scrape the film off whenever they found it, but I just glued it back on, over and over... for months.
If your country doesn't have those (yet), it almost reads like satire.