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History of Advertising

By dtmonro
  • 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. Barratt Born

    Thomas J. Barret is considered to be the father of modern advertising.
  • Edward Bernays was born

    Edward Bernays was born

    Edward Bernays wa sSigmund Frued's nephew and is widely known as the father of Public Relations.

  • First Radio Advertisement

    First Radio Advertisement
  • First Television Advertisement

    First Television Advertisement

    It aired before a baseball game on WNBC.
  • MTV ushers in a new type of advertsising

    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.
  • Period: to

    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.