News and Commentary
- Ad Rants
Daily coverage and commentary about the business of advertising. We're posting this site knowing full well once you go here, you won't come back.
- Adweek
Daily news about the ad business.
- Brandchannel
Tracks trends and popularities of product brands. Best feature is their Brandcameo page which features products placed in movies.
- Media Television
The modern art and science of persuasion, from CityTV.
- Advertising Blogs
The Last Link Web Watch accumulation of advertising blogs.
Collections
- Ad Access
Presents images and database information for over 7,000 advertisements printed in U.S. and Canadian newspapers and magazines between 1911 and 1955.
- Advertising Jingles
Be careful not to get any of these jingles stuck in your head.
- Banner Report
Who would think that internet banner ads were worth collecting? This site has 15,000 of them.
- Coloribus Admirror
A collection of ads with strikingly similar images. Shared collective inspiration? Coincidence? Plagiarism? Imagination bankruptcy?
- Emergence of Advertising in America 1850-1920
From Duke University. Includes over 9,000 images of early American advertisements.
- Jeffrey Zeldman Presents: The Ad Graveyard
Real ads that nearly ran. Read through the text and proceed to more 'Ads From The Crypt.'
- Logo R.I.P.
From Pan Am to Enron, a small collection of symbols of corporate ghosts.
- Lovemarks
What makes us 'bond' with a brand name? Saatchi & Saatchi had a hard look at what makes us loyal to certain products beyond reason. They've posted over four thousand comments and testimonials about why a brand makes the grade - from trademark to Lovemark.
- The Cola Wars
Over a century of cola slogans, commercials, blunders, and coups. The most spirited and intense competition in the beverage world is uncapped here.
- Jay Schulberg
Schulberg was a master of concise copy. His most famous campaigns had tag lines of less than five words. Schulberg died January 12, 2005 but leaves a lasting legacy as described at the Last Link's Final Credits pages.
Selected Campaigns of Note
- Audi DNA
Another word-of-net ad campaign. Visitors to the site are invited to submit their name so that it can be encoded into a customized online only commercial.
- Audi - Never Follow
David Bowie and William H. Macy never follow rules.
- Welcome To The Neighborhood
Reebok's recent campaign features TV spots placing NFL athletes in a fake-reality show (now there's an oxymoron). The site features the commercials and some obligatory outtakes.
Getting The Word Out On The Street
New ways of getting the product in front of the customer.
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