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Thursday, May 28, 2009

cool links to Ad History sites around the net.

· www.advertisinghalloffame.org
· The John W. Hartman Center for Sales, Advertising and Marketing History at Duke University has made more than 7,000 print advertisements from 1911-55 available at its Web site.
· The University of Texas' Advertising World - the ultimate marketing communications directory.
· the University of Illinois Advertising Exhibit
· Advertising Age's 'The Advertising Century.'
Some of the most important advertising in history
· Advertising Archives
An enjoyable collection of British advertising history
· Advertising History – Promotional Products
· Advertising Mascots
· Emergence of advertising in America
· Eisner Ad Museum
This Milwaukee facility also has the materials from the original American Advertising museum
· Fifty Years of Coca-Cola Television
Great little site salting one of the first “world brands.”
· Center for Advertising History
· Medicine and Madison Avenue
· Some Pretty Funny Vintage Ads

Marketing agencies/Client relationship

Saturday, May 16, 2009

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Fantastic video on the progression of information technology, researched by Karl Fisch, Scott McLeod, and Jeff Brenman.

Saturday, May 9, 2009

Misfortune brand names [Pee Cola]

Another product from Ghana, where they would have us eating Shitto and drink Pee.

Misfortune brand names [Shitto]

This product from Ghana is “a gravy made from dried pepper, smoked dried fish, dried shrimp power, a variety of spices, ginger, onion, garlic, tomatoes and seasoning.” Since English is the official language of Ghana, it doesn’t seem like this can be chalked up to unfortunate happenstance.

Misfortune brand names [Sars- soft drink]

An Australian company called Golden Circle has long manufactured a caramel-flavored Sarsaparilla drink, the abbreviated product name of which is “Sars.” Believe it or not, when the SARS outbreak of 2003 hit, sales of Sars went up: its value as a novelty item apparently outweighed the negative associations.