General Sites
Ad Flip
Who: Commercial subscription site.
What You'll Find: Searchable database of print ads from the1940s-today. Limited ads are available for non-members.
Ad Age
Who: Website of
Advertising Age, the 73-year-old flagship magazine of the Ad Age Group, a division of
Crain Communications Inc.
What You'll Find: Advertising news, reviews, clips.
Commercial Closet
Who: The Commercial Closet Association is is a non-profit educational and journalism organization that works to improve societal perceptions of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people through better portrayals in the most powerful cultural medium of our time--mainstream advertising.
What You'll Find: News, reviews, media clips.
Ad*Access
Who: Duke University
What You'll Find: Images and database information for over 7,000 advertisements printed in U.S. and Canadian newspapers and magazines between 1911 and 1955.
Emergence of Advertising in America
Who: Library of Congress
What You'll Find: Over 9,000 images relating to the early history of advertising in the United States. The materials, drawn from the Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library at Duke University, include cookbooks, photographs of billboards, print advertisements, trade cards, calendars, almanacs, and leaflets for a multitude of products.
Advertising Jingles
Who: Robin Johnson
What You'll Find: Real Audio files of advertising jingles.
Advertising World
Who: University of Texas at Austin Department of Advertising
What You'll Find: Directory of advertising sites.
Gender Ads
Who: Instructor of Anthropology and Sociology and Gender, at Lake Tahoe Community College
What You'll Find: Images from ads that use gender to sell products.
Medicine and Madison Avenue
Who: Duke University
What You'll Find: The Medicine and Madison Avenue Project presents images and database information for approximately 600 health-related advertisements printed in newspapers and magazines.
The Ad Factor
Who: The BBC
What You'll Find: Examination of how an ad is created.
Advertising Terms
Who: University of Texas at Austin Department of Advertising
What You'll Find: Alpha index of advertising terms.
Language of Advertising Claims
Who: Jeffrey Schrank
What You'll Find: Article that looks at language used in advertising.
The Language of Advertising
Who: Peter Sells, Professor, Department of Linguistics, Stanford University
What You'll Find: This website presents an approach to the investigation of the way that print advertisements carry their meaning to their audience. In its broadest conception, the approach that we adopt here is inspired by the linguistic theoretical approach of generative grammar, as articulated by Noam Chomsky.
"Reading" Advertisements
Who: Newsweek
What You'll Find: Activities to help students deconstruct ads.
