Get Ready for Drone-vertising
Unmanned aircraft has been used to carry out military strikes, to film weddings and possibly will be used someday to deliver Amazon products
**w some entrepreneurs see a**ther use: advertising.
Gauravjit Singh on Monday launched DroneCast, a startup that uses banners — literal ones — to spread advertising messages. The agency already has five clients in Philadelphia. Each will pay $100 a day to use of of DroneCast's four $4,000 drones to advertise over busy intersections, according to a report. The banners, which can run as long as 6 feet, will fly about 25 feet in the air
That is, unless the Federal Aviation Association shuts the company down. It's unclear whether what DroneCast is doing is illegal. The FAA **w prohibits commercial use of drones in many cases. Last **vember though the agency let farmers start using drones to monitor their crops and cattle Read more...