Old advertising

vintage fast food ads | Vintage Fast-Food Ads - Album on Imgur

QUESTION: Know of any beer so proud of its ingredients that it lists them on the label?

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Tobacco marketing has employed all sorts of effective (and often dubious) methods to get cigarettes into our mouths and tar into our lungs. One challenge they have faced it to get both men and women to inhale their carcinogenic fumes. For men, it’s fairly easy. We’ve covered this before: just feature a sexy woman, and … Continue reading "She Sells Smokes: 30 “Women-Only” Vintage Tobacco Ads"

There might still be whiff of 'boys toys' about cars but it's nothing when compared to the advertising that went on years ago

Label inside the Kodak Junior 620 #1

Here are a whole bunch of brilliant automotive ads over the last 50 or 60 years. It shows that the art of copywriting in advertising isn't what it used to be,

McDonalds and Burger King targeted African American Consumers in the 1970's by showing what they believed to be typical African American...

This is an example of testimonial propaganda. Testimonial propaganda uses a famous person to advertise the product , like how Einstein is for mentos.

1850 advertisements | ... application will do! [Emergence of Advertising in America: 1850-1920