Advertising/Branding Research Guide

Resources in advertising, branding and consumer information

Sample Print Ads

"100 Brilliant Print Adverts"

"30 Best Print Ads of 2014"

"The World's 17 Best Print Campaigns of 2013-14"

"65 Awesome Print Advertisements"

33 Powerful Print Ads
All The Great Mad Men Era Volkswagen Ads
Great Ads from the Mad Men Era

Digital Advertising Repositories

Ad*Access Project (Duke)
AdFlip
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2020: may no longer be in service
Advertising Archive
AdViews (Duke)
Coloribus
Early Advertising of the West, 1867-1918 (UW)
Emergence of Advertising in America: 1850-1920 (Duke)
History of Advertising Trust (UK)
Medicine and Madison Avenue (Duke)
New York Public Library Digital Collections (NYPL)
Printed Ephemera: Three Centuries of Broadsides and Other Printed Ephemera (Library of Congress)
R.C. Maxwell Company Records, 1904-1990 and undated (Duke)
Turn of the Century Posters (NYPL)
VADS: Visual Arts Data Service (UK)
Vintage Ad Browser

TV Commercials

Super Bowl Commercials 2017

Ad Age Super Bowl Ad Archive

World’s 24 Best Commercials of 2015-2016

Classic TV Ads (from YouTube)

PSAs

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 on this site.

https://www.psacentral.org/home

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