Night of the AdEaters

The Night of the AdEaters (La Nuit des Publivores) is an event held in France and many other places every year. It was created in 1981 to preserve advertisements (mainly television ones) to create a panorama on international advertising. The event runs for at least six hours with an estimated 500 adverts selected by founder Jean Marie Boursicot.

Much of the early spread of the so-called African Trash comes from an Ivorian television advertisement for Super Timor from 1986, though some advertisements for multiple African nations from the 60s and 70s are also considered to be "trash" in a way.