Marketing has evolved quite a bit over the past few decades. Hardly anyone opens magazines or newspapers anymore; today, it’s all about the internet. But just because times have changed doesn’t mean ...

Holiday advertising from the mid‑20th century often sparkled with charm, nostalgia, and cheer, but many of those campaigns would never make it past today’s standards. From casual sexism to unsafe ...

You really can’t go (or scroll) a few feet some places without bumping into an ad. They are ubiquitous to life these days, for better or worse. It raises the question, what ads were people in the past ...

Nick Federowicz is in the watch business, but not in the way you’d think. While he does wear watches, he doesn’t really collect them, and he certainly doesn’t sell them. What he does do is source the ...

Viewing too many Wendy's ads with the guy wearing the Pippi Longstocking red wig makes us long for the days when advertising was clever, not bizarre. Take this ad, for instance. No way the creepy ...

Without dispute, the '70s were an iconic fashion decade. Tie-dye, floral, bell-bottoms, mini (and maxi) dresses. It's not hard to pick out a seminal trend whose influence can be seen even in ...

This Sunday January 16th, Outpost Artists Resources will be hosting a night of retro animated advertising curated by Willy Hartland, a distinguished New York City animator. The event, Fresher, ...

Ahh, remember back when? When rumor sites didn’t exist? Where second-guessing the next Stevenote meant walking in the rain to your nearest User Group meeting, and having a heated discussion with your ...

As claimed in the Reddit post, the in-question ad appeared in the Dec. 12, 1969, issue of Life magazine, as archived on Google Books (page 33). First there are her legs. Beautiful, perhaps. But tough.

You really can’t go (or scroll) a few feet some places without bumping into an ad. They are ubiquitous to life these days, for better or worse. It raises the question, what ads were people in the past ...