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The Complete History of Advertising

By zhirui ji
  • 3000 BCE

    Carving and Writing

    The Antique Period. No one knows exactly when businesses began using advertising to distinguish themselves.
  • May 6, 1216

    Commercial Messages Painted by Professionals in Ancient Rome

  • Mass Media and Advertising Agencies

    The world’s first newspaper, Relation aller Fürnemmen und gedenckwürdigen Historien, was issued in 1605 in Strasbourg by Johann Carolus.

  • Radio and Television

    The first paid radio advertising was aired on WEAF (WFAN) in New York on August 28, 1922.

  • The World’s First Television Advertising

    The first television advertisement was aired on July 1, 1941, and lasted nearly ten seconds.

  • Internet Technologies and Social Media

    The synergy of economics and science in advertising that began in the 1980s reached its peak in the 1990s

  • The Advent of Social Media Advertising

    With the introduction of Facebook Ads in 2007, the number of targeting possibilities that advertising platforms could offer to businesses increased.