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Åsk interviewed by the Epica Awards

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The best part is the aurora, when I was a child I was told this was a reflection of how much fish was in the rivers and lakes. I still believe it.

Jul 1, 2023

Adland : the never-ending project

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I bored all my friends talking about advertising all the time. I am obsessed with ads. I wanted to share ad knowledge with other ad geeks.

Jun 30, 2020

Charging for commercial access on Adland® - a short era

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Adland had a paywall for some time. When the bandwidth for serving the commercials became too large of an expense for me, I devised a plan.

Dec 16, 2019

"Click on those who click on adland" - banner project from visiting domain names.

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On April 22 in 2000 I sat down and wrote a little script that would pull out interesting names from my visitor traffic and then I would create banners with these names and link back to the visitor's official websites

Dec 3, 2019

Adpulp: Åsk Wäppling’s Adland Torpedoed By “Nuisance DMCA”

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David Burn did a proper interview here: "Åsk Wäppling’s Adland Torpedoed By “Nuisance DMCA” asking the questions that many others also wondered about, so I was happy to get to answer these publically.

Sep 28, 2019

Techdirt "Adland shuts down after web host complies with bullshit DMCA notice"

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Techdirt notes that we're offline and write "Adland Shuts Down After Web Host Complies With Bullshit DMCA Notice" on Fri, Sep 27th 2019.

Sep 28, 2019

Bluebus; 'Adland' goes down for publicizing Bridgestone commercial - lawyer complained

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There is one advertising website that has been around longer than Adland has, and it is the Brazilian BlueBus site that premiered in 1995, a whole year before us. They noted the death of Adland in this article here.

Sep 25, 2019

SF Egotist: "Adland shut down over DMCA takedown"

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The SF Egotist, another advertising blog that has been around for years reported on the demies of Adland here. "Adland shut down over DMCA takedown"

Sep 25, 2019

Resumé : Reklamsajten Adland hotas av nedläggning

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Resumé rapporterar om Adland's plötsliga nedläggning som hotar bli permanent. Det finns en arkiverad länk här.

Sep 24, 2019

Reclaim: "World’s largest and oldest commercial archive Adland taken offline"

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A site called Reclaim the Internet was the first out to report that "World’s largest and oldest commercial archive Adland taken offline after questionable DMCA claim" (archive link)

Sep 20, 2019

Resume about Adland: "Ad writer accuses Nike of plagiarism"

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Resumé Magazine, the "Campaign" of Sweden if you will, found Kidsleepy's rant about Nike's "Dream Crazy" campaign and reported on the similarity to "Think Different".

Jul 17, 2019

Quoted Economic Times, India "Adworld’s most unusual CEO" 2016

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Back in 2016 there were a lot of things happening at the top levels of ad agencies, with a huge scandal erupting at JWT as the former CEO Was sued for sexual harassment.

Jun 29, 2016