Posts related to or about adland® the commercial archive
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.
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.
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
Techdirt notes that we're offline and write "Adland Shuts Down After Web Host Complies With Bullshit DMCA Notice" on Fri, Sep 27th 2019.
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.
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"
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.
Resumé rapporterar om Adland's plötsliga nedläggning som hotar bli permanent. Det finns en arkiverad länk här.
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)
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".
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.
The Article "Adland goes dark (web)" is a short but sweet interview with me about ad banners, Tor, trackers and all the other fun stuff that has nestled into every device you have.
Rupal Parekh muses about the twitter hashtag shitstorm Adland caused, and wonders if it reveals more about the current industry morale than intended.
Ad Buzz, a Canadian ad news site created by a group of ambitious ad youngsters took note of "The World’s Very First Advertising Blog"
"The BR 200 list of the best advertising, marketing, media, PR and digital blogs from around the world, ranked in terms of traffic and social influence."
...."Ok, you are hereby dubbed to the copyqueen of this project while I go sort something green to wear." were the last words between me and
...."Ok, you are hereby dubbed to the copyqueen of this project while I go sort something green to wear." were the last words between me and Jane Goldman a.k.a caffeinegoddess,
In an article in Dagens Media (archive link) Henrik Widell sums up what happened when Google declared a Sloggi underwear billboard to be pornographic material.
