Adland.tv is one of the oldest of the lot with over 40,000 followers on Twitter, many of them being Indians. Founded in 1996 by Åsk Dabitch (the nom de plume of Åsk Wäppling), the site has a mammoth collation of over 30 years of Super Bowl commercials.
It's also conspicuous for calling a spade a spade and putting out a list of scam winners after every edition of the Cannes Lions. All this besides being a commercial ad archive that gets 10-35 campaigns to review on weekdays. Before Adland, Dabitch used to curate ads in scrapbooks and on VHS tapes.
Pretty ancient, no? "I wanted to show my collection to people so that they could use it for research or just save it as a part of popular culture," she recounts.
Adland started off as a paywalled website, for Dabitch was convinced that advertising on top of advertising, so to speak, was like a 'cake on a cake'. Over the years, she has warmed up to the then unsavoury idea of lending ad space to agencies, production houses and brands."
"In Resume's weekend interview, freelance art director Åsk Wäppling talks about his constant admiration for the power of advertising, exclusion in the advertising industry and his life project Adland."
