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Fifty Years of Coca Cola Advertisements, American Memory, The Library of Congress
This site features 50 Coca-Cola commercials, broadcast outtakes, and experimental footage that reflects the historical development of television advertising for a major commercial product. Includes five examples of stop-motion advertisements from the mid-1950s, 18 experiments with color and lighting for television ads from 1964, and well-known commercials, such as the "Hilltop" commercial featuring the song "I'd Like to Buy the World a Coke" (1971). Also offers the "Mean Joe Greene" commercial (1979); the first "Polar Bear" commercial (1993); the "Snowflake" commercial (1999); and "First Experience", an international commercial filmed in Morocco (1999).

Retrojunk : Commercials
Watch classic television ads in a variety of categories from the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s.

Commercials I Hate
"Hi, welcome to Commercials I Hate. I started this site in 1997 because the advertising industry thinks we're stupid. Commercials assume the worst about us. Commercials use ugly stereotypes to appeal to the lowest common denominator. That's nasty and insulting. Lucky for you, my reader, so am I." Nathan Alexander

visit4info "the place for ads"
Mostly United Kindgom, includes print, television, and cinema advertising

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