Articles addressing ads and advertisements, from those which appeared in old magazines to more modern fare.
I invite you as my guest to read about Google seeing how far it can push its luck with YouTube ads before “users” start finding other ways to spend their internet time.
A story about EA considering shoving ads into its AAA games led me to remember a time when you could buy an EA game and own it without ads. That gave rise to other memories.
I recently learned about some shopping app called Temu. I contemplated my obliviousness and determined that I owe my lack of knowledge to good internet usage.
I discovered an original GIF advertisement for the then-upcoming June 24, 2004 release of The Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky. I tell the story of my discovery and re-print the GIFs.
The peculiar and humorus Sega Dreamcast commercials of Seiichi Yukawa.
Last year we covered the nonpareil (bird). Today we cover nonpareil laundry.
An 1895 promotion for a “fairy tricycle” in Harper’s Round Table.
An 1897 promotional magazine snapshot and a look at two classic Kodak cameras.