Advertising History: 1980-present

The Creative Revolution

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Advertising has always been an industry susceptible to change, with one of the most significant changes occurring in the 1960s. Often the so...

The Era of Testing

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By the late seventies and early eighties the focus of advertising shifted to television. What was once a challenge to create the perfect pag...

The Product is Not the Hero

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Bill Bernbach once said “stay within the product, stay within the product”. But Dan Weiden and account manager Jim Riswold had a different t...

Mergers and Takeovers

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From 1975-1984 the advertising industry experienced the greatest boom it has ever known. Expenditures on advertising rose on average of 13 p...

Cable TV & the 15-second spot

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Throughout the 1980s television commercials became more and more expensive so they cut the sales story to be told in seconds rather than min...

Generation X

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In 1980, advertising absorbed roughly two-thirds of all marketing expenditures by manufactures; by 1990, advertising’s share was no more tha...

The Dot-Com Boom

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By 1996 Internet usage had become commonplace with explosive growth occurring between 1996-97. As interest in this phenomenon continued to g...
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