ADVERTISING: The History
PREHISTORY 1704 - First Newspaper Ad 1742 - First Magazine Ad 1842 - (US) - First advertising agency 1882 - Procter & Gamble Co. begins advertising Ivory soap ($11,000) 1889 - (Canada) - First Canadian agency McKim -- sold newspaper space to advertisers
1844
1880
1898
SLOGANS 1900 - 1929 MEDIA: NEWPAPERS AND MAGAZINES INNOVATIONS: Color Slogans and trademarks
1910
1911
1919
1920s
1920s
1929
RATIONALITY PERIOD 1930 - 1950 MEDIA: PRINT AND RADIO Consumer movement Books – Upton Sinclair’s “The Jungle” Laws INNOVATIONS (REACTION): Long copy “Reasons why” advertising Credible spokespeople
1940s
1940s
1940s
EXAMPLES OF EARLY RADIO ADS: Mostly informational Brisk Toothpaste (1940s) Ting Pimple Cream (1950)
IMAGE PERIOD 1950s - 1980 MEDIA: PRINT, RADIO, BROADCAST TV Sponsored programs “commercials” INNOVATIONS (EXECUTION): Jingles Ad-libbed Program talent as spokespeople TV: demonstrations
CELEBRITIES George Burns Bing Crosby Judy Garland Donna Reed
1950
1959
1960
1962
Jingles EXAMPLES OF LATER RADIO ADS Tempo Cigarettes (early 1960s) Lucky beer (1963) Coke (next page)
TELEVISION ADS Lucky Strike Cigarettes Marlboro Cigarettes Westinghouse Refrigerator Edsel Car (1958) [video] Coke - Hilltop (1971) Coke -- Mean Joe Green (1979)
SEGMENTATION PERIOD 1980 - 1999 MEDIA: PRINT, RADIO, TV (BROADCAST, CABLE) Unique Selling Propositions (USPs) Positioning Brand equity Segmentation
1980
1990
ADVERTISING ICONS
MEDIA EXPANSION PERIOD 2000 - ???? MEDIA: PRINT, TV, INTERNET, SOCIAL MEDIA Proliferation of data sources Not focused on claims or products World Wide Web Micro-targeting SOCIAL MEDIA
Quote of the day Ads are the cave art of the twentieth century. Marshall McLuhan (professor)