Advertising Electronic Reading Room

This site from the University of Texas Department of Advertising offers a number of useful resources, including: white papers, links to the ad world, advertising quotations, advertising law & ethics, famous ad slogans, biographies of ad giants, rules for style in writing, dictionary of terminology, and more.

AdFlip.com

Billing itself “the world’s largest searchable database of classic print ads,” AdFlip may be keyword searched or browsed by several methods. The ads are indexed by category (automotive, electronic, fashion, etc.), decade (1940s to current), and several specialty categories (ad as art, famous, advocacy, provocative, today’s top ten). Each collection of ads (presented as thumbnails) can be displayed by date, name, or ID number. Each … [ Read more ]

Advertisers Seek More Bang For Their Web Bucks

Article heading states “Agencies develop sophisticated ways to gauge an ad’s success at brand building, driving sales” but in fact it seems to conclude more that that is the goal than the reality. Along the way, it presents some interesting online ad issues however.

Getting Old Economy Advertisers to Ante Up Online

Be honest with them: Brand building is different on the Web, where marketers must focus on users’ heads, not their hearts.

She Builds Online Brands on the Street

Di-Ann Eisnor is a master at persuading busy people to pay attention to digital brands. Her secret? If you want to move people to the virtual world, move your messages to the physical world.

Click-Through Rate, R.I.P.

Article talks about why the click-through rate (CTR) is increasingly less meaningful as a metric of sales and marketing success and also talks about more useful metrics

E-Branding: An Accident Waiting to Happen?

Article discusses the disconnect between how e-commerce companies are currently approaching online branding and research that shows how users are discovering web sites