I was sitting just outside a pub in Temple Bar, Dublin and I couldn’t help but notice the lack of billboards in the city. Being a New Yorker, I’m used to being (over) exposed to an exorbitant amount of advertisements in creative placements on nearly every surface. From staircase landings to skyscrapers to buses and taxis, NYC is wrapped in advertisements like one big consumer gift box. But there I was, an American Ad-Gal abroad (if Ad-Gal takes off as an industry phrase, I’d like to note in advance that I totally came up with that, or at least I.