Selected Web Sites

AdWeek's Best Spots
Video clips of advertisements along with all the credit information: director, copywriter, production company, music, composer/arranger, etc..

Creativity
Adcritic's Web site includes links to the current issue, video clips, as well as "Behind the Work" articles, and the "creativity question" forum. [Note: "All content on Creativity Online is free for 7 days after it is posted." Older content requires a paid subscription.]

Advertising Examples, Slogans and Advertising Awards
This site contains links to past and present advertisements including ad slogans and adverising awards, as well as information, resources, and references.

Advertising World
A tremendous number of links to websites about or featuring advertisements. Look under "Ads" for lists of sites with images, sites with videos, etc.

Emergence of Advertising in America: 1850-1920 (EAA)
This historical collection from Duke University is organized into eleven categories with samples from the mid-1800s to the 1920s. Categories are listed with a brief description and links to a database for browsing and searching, and also to pages with more complete information on each category.

Creative Advertisements Around the World
A selection of different popular and innovative international ads.

Tokyo Advertising Museum
Includes examples of Japanese poster art such as train posters, train station posters, and outdoor print advertising. Archive is arranged according to month of first appearance, 9/99 to present with many major Japanese advertisers represented. Captions in Japanese.

Medicine and Madison Avenue
"This website explores the complex relationships between modern medicine and modern advertising, or 'Madison Avenue', as the latter is colloquially termed. The Medicine and Madison Avenue Project presents images and database information for approximately 600 health-related advertisements printed in newspapers and magazines. These ads illustrate the variety and evolution of marketing images from the 1910s through the 1950s."