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Covers articles from such periodicals as Journal of Advertising and Advertising Age.

The Ad Council is a private, non-profit organization that delivers critical messages to the American public via public awareness advertising campaigns.

"Over 7,000 U.S. and Canadian advertisements covering five product categories - Beauty and Hygiene, Radio, Television, Transportation, and World War II propaganda - dated between 1911 and 1955."

Examples of print and video advertisements & campaigns along with their perspective agencies. Access to certain areas requires individual subscription with additional cost.

Ads of the world and their agencies.

A trade magazine with industry news regarding advertising campaigns and media activity for popular brands.

Examples of print advertisements.

"The AdViews digital collection consists of thousands of television commercials created or acquired by the D'Arcy Masius Benton & Bowles advertising agency from the 1950s through the 1980s for a diverse range of clients including General Foods, Proctor & Gamble, Pillsbury, Anheuser-Busch, Pan-American World Airways, Mattel, and Nestle."

A weekly trade magazine with industry news about advertising and public relations.

"The American Advertising Awards is the advertising industry's largest and most representative competition, attracting nearly 35,000 entries every year in local AAF competitions. The mission of the American Advertising Awards is to recognize and reward the creative spirit of excellence in the art of advertising."

Covering the word of marketing and ad campaigns from 1992 - 2011. Merged into Adweek.

A trade magazine with industry news on advertising campaigns.

A trade magazine with industry news regarding advertising campaigns in the Asia Pacific.

The industry award for outstanding advertisements.

DCN is a nonprofit trade organization representing media companies that produce digital content. Its research reports often include insights to consumer behavior of digital content and digital advertising.

"Over 3,300 advertising items and publications dating from 1850 to 1920, illustrating the rise of consumer culture and the birth of a professionalized advertising industry in the United States."

The largest archive of British advertising in the world.

Since 2004, the Meeker Internet Trends report has looked at the global trends of internet use.

From the American Academy of Advertising, "the premier academic publication covering significant intellectual development pertaining to advertising theories and their relationship with practice."

A trade magazine.

A weekly magazine that focuses on advertising and the media. Merged into Adweek in 2011.

"Resource for Outdoor Advertising Database 2.0 is a portal to more than 30,000 out of home advertisements from five unique source collections.  See also the original ROAD metadata only database that contains descriptions of over 50,000 images of outdoor advertising dating between the 1920s and the 1990s.  Metadata includes advertiser company, product, placement company, date if known, and medium."

An advertising trade magazine.

"...offers ideas, insights and information on key issues across the whole youth market, from the initial stages of preparing for parenthood to kids, tweenies, teenagers and young people up to the age of 24."