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The first newspaper advertisement, an announcement seeking a buyer for an Oyster Bay, Long Island, estate, is published in the Boston News-Letter.
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Benjamin Franklin's General Magazine prints the first American magazine ads.
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The Pennsylvania Packet & Daily Advertiser, America's first successful daily newspaper, starts in Philadelphia.
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Volney Palmer opens the first advertising agency in Philadelphia.
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The first convention of advertising agents is held in New York.
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Department store founder John Wanamaker is the first retailer to hire a full-time advertising copywriter, John E. Powers.
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N.W. Ayer establishes a Business-Getting Department to plan advertising campaigns based on prospective advertisers' marketing needs.
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The National Better Business Bureau is organized.
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The Stock Market Crashed
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Following the stock market crash, advertising spending plummets. From its high of $3.5 billion, it sinks to $1.5 billion by 1933.
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Radio surpasses magazines as a source of advertising revenue.
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he Advertising Research Foundation is established.
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The Supreme Court grants advertising First Amendment protection.
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Internet advertising breaks the $2 billion mark and heads toward $3 billion as the industry
