AdHistoria

Dedicated to the preservation of the greatest television and cinema advertising of the 20th century.

[AdHistoria @Ad_Historia]

Archive progress report:
ACC: Japanese site verbose, though not sure how complete
ADC: 100% coverage on 100+ years of annuals
Addy: Some early 90s found, regional awards make collation difficult
AICP: Site has 100% complete records with credits. Good job.

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Update: another two were sold in the last week. No idea what's causing this demand spike.

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Someone was busy this week. Also, SCAN 62!!!

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May rebrand as "The Ad-yssey" to adequately represent the years-long voyage through thousands of sources for no monetary gain. Might make for a mediocre film adaptation as well.

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One with the program was available for just over five hours. Absolutely livid.

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Someone upload a new reel already, or at least Best Commercials VI since even I don't have a copy.

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@dabitch これは、もしかして？（1998年）
https://t.co/UrdEoS1cWN

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Previously missing video apparently returned; crisis averted.

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Looking for a scanner to copy my personal collection of annuals. Largest is just bigger than a standard magazine bag, about 9 1/2" x 12".

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It seems one has to consider AdForum lost media at this point:

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Only public source for most of 1999 paywalled. Wonderful:
https://t.co/HnesXgUkYP

[SXR123 (Dave) @SXR123]

🚨Might be a waste of time posting this, but I'mma do it anyway. Long post incoming.

The internet is our Library of Alexandria.

The internet as we've been using it up to this point has been relatively free to use in terms of what you could do, with very few limitations.

Instant communication around the world, being able to speak with other languages in a back and forth dialogue, content making and sharing, shopping, gaming, information gathering and sharing, a place to learn and so on.

You have the freedom and ability to speak your mind on something and a chance for that something to be seen and heard INSTANTLY.

Should the powers that be decide to change the rules, things as we have now will never be the same.

The list:
-Speaking to someone outside of your country without proper clearance, like a digital passport. Something you will likely have to pay for, should it ever happen.

-Slowed communications. No longer instant for whatever arbitrary reason they decide to give.

-Country gates. You may not even be allowed to visit certain websites outside your country's jurisdiction, without said digital passport.

-Paying for time spent on foreign websites, like long distance calls used to cost money.

-Content making and gathering. If you make something that they deem unsafe, even if it's not, you are subject to their laws—This includes speaking out against an injustice. Or criticizing your government.

-Information gathering, sharing, learning. You may not be allowed easy access to information as you do now.

To wrap it all up. Some of these things sound absurd and you'd be right to say so. But all they have to do is decide that they want more control and we have to live with it.

If you think you are safe because you don't do anything "bad", all they have to do is change what that means and suddenly you're in trouble.

[The Intercept @theintercept]

The KIDS Act strongly incentivizes — and, for some services, outright requires — age verification. Companies like X, video-sharing services like Vimeo, and others with a history of users’ populating social feeds with edgy content may be required to verify users’ ages.

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Now is no time for Alka-Seltzer. Now is no time at all.

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Also, there is no escaping the spicy meatball:

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Despite being the top text search result on Internet Archive, Norback's TV Guide Almanac isn't exactly reliable:

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Still have no idea what other national US television advertising awards even existed in 1960. ADC and IBA/BPA also don't fit since they didn't have product categories.

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Update: Apparently it's just a free account wall? Either way, they've been at 932 ads for the last five years.

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Cannes website now presumably locks even the enumeration of their ads behind a paywall. Significant proportion of 70s content now unsourceable.

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Finally got around to this year's Super Bowl ads after neglecting them for three months:
https://t.co/7vrdUk6tu9

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The brand was dissolved thirty years ago. DDB has been shuttered. Still, the Sisyphean horror of the spicy meatball is ever present.

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The year is 2026. I open an innocuous annual well past the ad's original air date, but am once again met with the grinning visage of Jack Somack. The meatballs will not cease.

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Compilations currently excised from every search engine - that's okay, I'll still keep doing it for free.