adland

Our wee link in New York Times. We provided 16 of the 23 commercials (though we have all of them) for the graphic, you can shortcut to the ads on Adland from this post here. The New York Times gracefully listed Adland as a source, both with name and URL.

Back in 2006, the magazine "Internetworld" listed the top ten best designs and functions of the web that year, and pointed to Adland as an example. "At the advertising blog Adland they use tags to categorize the commercials that are uploaded"

Plenty of ad blogs duked it out in the Battle of the ad Blogs 2006, and the competition got a lot of attention. Here are a few surviving links.

Attention was both a glossy magazine, and content published online at Ekonominyheterna. They decided to put the "new media elites" on the cover of their glossy magazine and had four prominent web people decked out to the nines on the cover.

Adfreak spotted that Adland turned ten years old and announced it with the saucy headline: Adland turns ten braces for spankings. Oh my! Archive here.

Back in 2006, the University of Texas had a special creativity style blog, founded by David Wen, a Texas Creative senior.

"In Svenska Dagbladet, political editor P.J. Anders Linder has started the first 'management blog', and Swedish Åsk Wäppling runs the internet's largest blog about advertising Adland from Copenhagen, and has 30,000 visitors to the blog daily."

"5 professional blogs" the headline reads, as IDG magazine rates the top five. Adland is one of them. 

Adland ran a contest called "the namegame" where the goal was to change the name of a Danish advertising agency.

“People don’t know who I am and it’s cool,” says Wäppling, 32. “But they think I’m a guy, and that gets annoying.”

Sydsvenskan tog en fika med mig i Malmö, 2005. Det resulterade i artikeln: "Trettiotusen läser hennes blogg"

"Åtta oumbärliga sajter - this translates to: Eight websites you can not do without.