The Ad*Access Project presents images and information for over 7,000 advertisements printed in U.S. and Canadian newspapers and magazines between 1911-1955. Ad*Access concentrates on five main subject areas: Radio, Television, Transportation, Beauty and Hygiene, and World War II, providing a coherent view of a number of major campaigns and companies through images preserved in one particular advertising collection available at Duke University.
Images and information for over 7,000 advertisements printed in U.S. and Canadian newspapers and magazines between 1911-1955. It concentrates on five main subject areas: Radio, Television, Transportation, Beauty and Hygiene, and World War II, providing a coherent view of a number of major campaigns and companies through images preserved.
The Ad Council is a leading producer of Public Service Announcements (PSAs) and has been creating ads since 1942. Provides access to current and historical Ad Council campaigns as well as other endorsed campaigns.
Since 1999, AdForum has provided advertising agencies and production companies a digital space to showcase their creative work. AdForum represents the collective voice of the advertising industry, which includes a Creative Library featuring more than 200,000 campaigns and partnerships.
"The Advertising Archives was established in 1990 by Larry and Suzanne Viner and is the largest and most comprehensive resource of its kind in Europe". The collection spans from the mid 19th-century to the present day. Image types include: British & American Press Adverts; British & American Magazine Covers and Artwork; French & Spanish Magazine Art; British TV Advertising Stills; Mail Order Catalogues; Posters; Postcards; Menus; Theatre Programmes; Vintage Magazines.
AdViews is a digital archive of thousands of vintage television commercials created or collected by the D'Arcy Masius Benton & Bowles (DMB&B) advertising agency, dated 1950s - 1980s.
The Emergence of Advertising in America (EAA) presents 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.
Life Magazine partnered with Google Books to digitize the magazine's entire run as a weekly: over 1,860 issues, covering the years from 1936 to 1972.Users can browse, search and view a retrospective of Life magazine photos and ads. Users have free access to share, print and post images for personal use.
Presents more than 300 television commercials from every election year beginning in 1952, when the first campaign ads aired.
A database of over 600 advertisements and historical documents dated between 1911 and 1958, relating to the creation and influence of health-related advertising.
The Museum has preserved advertising campaigns for several familiar companies, such as Marlboro, Alka-Seltzer, Federal Express, Cover Girl, and Nike. It also holds the records of the NW Ayer Advertising Agency and business papers from Krispy Kreme Doughnuts, Carvel Ice Cream, and other companies. The Warshaw Collection of Business Americana comprises thousands of trade cards, catalogs, labels, and other business papers and images dating back to the late 1700s.
More than 16,000 images of outdoor advertisements and other scenes from the Outdoor Advertising Association of America, the primary professional organization in the field.
The Ad Council, the producer of public service ads (PSAs) on TV and radio, in newspapers and magazines, on billboards and on the Web, makes a wide variety of these ads available for preview or download. Access is free, but registration is required.
"Stanford Research Into the Impact of Tobacco Advertising (SRITA) was formed in 2007 by Stanford professor Robert Jackler who serves as its principal investigator. Our purpose is to study the promotional activities of the tobacco industry."
This page lists many different advertisement sources available to browse on the free web.
A free website which seeks to collect vintage ads from a variety of sources, including comic books, CD-Roms, websites, APIs, book, magazine & comic book scans, and more.
Allows you to cross search many newspapers and provides a field to limit your searches to ads. This is a valuable resource because the papers are fully scanned. However, be warned that the images are not always the best resolution.
AP Images Collection is a primary source database from the Associated Press, one of the oldest and largest news organizations in the world. Access an archive of over 1 million current news photos (with some historical material as early as the 19th century) including graphics such as tables, maps, and time lines.
This index database of national network television news programs includes streaming video of CNN news broadcasts as well as commercials from the mid-1990s to the present.
Offering informative profiles of 500 marketing campaigns from the twentieth century, this work provides background information, strategy, and outcomes of notable print, radio, and television advertising efforts.
The Advertising Educational Foundation
AEF provides educational content to enrich the understanding of advertising and to expand and elevate the advertising discourse... on-campus... in society... and in the industry.
American Academy of Advertising
The Academy fosters research that is relevant to the field and provides a forum for the exchange of ideas among its academic and professional members.
American Advertising Federation
The AAF protects and promotes the well-being of advertising. A unique, nationally coordinated grassroots network of advertisers, agencies, media companies, local advertising clubs and college chapters.
American Association of Advertising Agencies
(AAAA) is the national trade association representing the advertising agency business in the United States.
UCI Libraries has many print resources that touch upon advertising in various contexts and time periods. These are just a few!
Stronger than dirt : a cultural history of advertising personal hygiene in America, 1875 to 1940 by 
Food is love : food advertising and gender roles in modern America by 
Advertising in the age of persuasion : building brand America 1941-1961 by 
Culture and the ad : exploring otherness in the world of advertising by 
The medium and the message : television advertising and American elections by 
Soap, sex, and cigarettes : a cultural history of American advertising by 
Dimensions of racism in advertising : from slavery to the twenty-first century by 
