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Period: 100 to 200
Ancient China used verbal advertisements
They sang songs and played music to entice people into buying products. 5th - 17th Centuries BC -
Period: 500 to Dec 31, 1500
Middle ages used images instead of text
Since there was such a low literacy rate, people used images of stuff to advertise their products instead of words. -
Thomas J. Barratt Born
Thomas J. Barret is considered to be the father of modern advertising. -
Edward Bernays was born
Edward Bernays wa sSigmund Frued's nephew and is widely known as the father of Public Relations. -
First Radio Advertisement
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First Television Advertisement
It aired before a baseball game on WNBC. -
MTV ushers in a new type of advertsising
This gave birth to networks devoted solely advertising such as QVC and other at-home shopping networks. -
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Internet Ads were illegal
In the 1990s it was considered illegal for advertisers to "use [the Internet] for commercial activities by for-profit institutions". source: "Information Policies: A Compilation of Position Statements, Principles, Statutes, and Other Pertinent Statements". Coalition for Networked Information. Retrieved 24 June 2013.
