adland

The Propaganda article has been archived here, as it's no longer online.

Wired wrote about referral link spam back in 2002 and interviewed yours truly.

"*Ghost* and *scamads* have had their own festival. It's called Ghost and will run for the first time on October 31 this year.

The Collective did interviews with freelancers in their network, including myself where I spoke about Adland. Note how I reply "I started Adland", because I never did call it by the URL, however it was common for other people to mention the URL so that it could be linked.

The Globe and Mail wrote about "All ads, all the time - only on-line" here and it's archived here.

and Åsk Wäppling, an Art Director by day and maverick industry commentator by night. Wäppling is the mistress and founder of ad-rag.com, a web destination for industry news, gossip and rants; her online persona is called "Dabitch".

"Speaking of the stock market, that's the unique 2nd market condition I mentioned earlier. As we all know, the market is suffering from a major dot com fallout right now.

Adformatie, the dutch advertising tradepress, linked both Adland and the Commercial-archive in one go in issue 38, August 2000, that was back when we kept the commercials on a separate domain.

Adland created by "Ask" an advertising Art Director in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, contains all manner of e-mail threads and rants about the world of advertising. It's best known section, called Badland

In CINT newsletter week 42 year 2000, they give the linktip to check out Badland at Adland. 

"Media researchers!" the blurb calls, as ResearchBuzz lists Adland as a resource for commercials way back in 2000.

Resumé wrote about the badland / plagiarized ads back in 1998  - skrev om plagiaten på webben 1998.