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ongoing reading - lunchtime fodder

Yahoo! Summit Series: events for marketers and advertising agencies, highlighting key industry issues. All events are videotaped and available for review online, the Yahoo! Summit Series brings together award-winning authors, historians, and industry leaders for deep insights and solutions to the challenges facing today's marketers...

advertising.yahoo.com/central/summitseries

Communications - The next decade...

A collection of essays prepared for the UK Office of Communications

www.ofcom.org.uk/research/commsdecade

Private Frazer’s Doomed Magazines: "Aye laddie, with the economy taking a wee tumble and the internet grabbing readers and advertisers, it’s no pleasure cruise for yon magazine publishers. Here we’ll look at the poor wee bairns that did nae make it and the ones that dinnae deserve to."

privatefraser.wordpress.com

The Write News: Editorial Dead Zone: Comments and news items about publications and websites that are cutting back on editorial staff or closing down.  Nice eh?

www.writenews.com/deadzone

brandchannel.com, the world's only online exchange about branding, produced by Interbrand.  Award winning weekly magazine for branding practitioners around the world.

www.brandchannel.com

BuildingBrands was established as a way of sharing many years of experience in building brands that build business.  Their objective is simple: to help companies unlock the potential of their brand... some good lunch time reading.

www.buildingbrands.com

Adrants provides marketing and advertising news with attitude in the form of a website and daily email newsletter. Written by current and former industry practitioners, it provides insightful, informed, experiential, no holds barred commentary on the state of the advertising and media industries.

www.adrants.com

Adbusters describe themselves as "a global network of artists, activists, writers, pranksters, students, educators and entrepreneurs who want to advance the new social activist movement of the information age." They also have some pretty cool jammed ads on their site - click on spoof ads from the homepage.

www.adbusters.org

Billboardom: The Funny Billboards Blog is a collection of creative and funny billboards and other outdoor / ambient advertising published since 2005.

billboardom.blogspot.com

AdLand, the beyond-a-blog, commercial-laden delirium of heaven and hell for advertising addicts around the world, gossips about advertising stunts and marketing mishaps. The latest advertising news from a creative point of view served fresh daily since 2000.

commercial-archive.com

Commercial Breaks and Beats - the UK television advert music database... a noble endeavour - they exist on the small commission received from people buying the tunes on their site through amazon - think about supporting them when you next buy music!

www.commercialbreaksandbeats.co.uk

This is broken, a project to make businesses more aware of their customer experience, and how to fix it - advertising section.

www.goodexperience.com/tib/archives/adv...

ShakeGently.com is a glimpse into the world of author Dustin Jacobsen, where you can read about advertising, technology and a wide array or random topics.

shakegently.com

This is the text to Taking ADvantage, a book on the physical and cultural evolution of human beings, how that evolution has affected human subconscious processing of stimuli, and how advertising takes advantage (thus the title) of that processing by creating stimuli.

http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~taflinge/advant.html

The History of Advertising Trust began in 1974 when a small group within the advertising industry decided that its heritage needed to be preserved and that the study of advertising should be encouraged and subsidised.  As a result, the HAT archive was founded in 1976 as an archive of advertising, now its remit has spread to embrace all forms brand communications including retail marketing, traditional and new media, direct marketing and public relations.

www.hatads.org.uk

Fifty Years of Coca-Cola Television Advertisements: Highlights from the Motion Picture Archives at the Library of Congress...

memory.loc.gov/ammem/ccmphtml/colahome.html

“A Short History of British Television Advertising” from the National Media Museum...

www.nationalmediamuseum.org.uk/pdfs/TVads.pdf

...a web site that tries to make things clear.  Transparency is based on the idea that all media, politics, and popular culture -- and ultimately all aspects of personality -- can be opened up to our view and understanding. The site interprets and critiques movies and television, news and political rhetoric, theme parks and advertising, computer games and the Internet, and other creations of contemporary culture.

www.transparencynow.com   (a bit weird)

 

Charlie Brooker's...

"...3 minutes of brilliance."

Click here to view...

 

Top ten virals of 2007

The ten most viewed branded virals on YouTube last year - all together in one place - great viewing!

Click here to view...

 

State of Mind

Royal Marines Commando training programme website - the best recruitment advertising in years

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