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This is an example of testimonial propaganda. Testimonial propaganda uses a famous person to advertise the product , like how Einstein is for mentos.

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It's not a secret that ads are around in order to push products. But what's interesting is that oftentimes, we find the male gaze in ads that are trying to move merchandise for women. Whereas male-skewed ads usually revolve around becoming more…

The largest tobacco firms in the world are to release anti-smoking newspaper and TV campaigns under a court order, starting this Sunday in the US. These so-called “corrective statement” ads will inform the public about the dangers of smoking, to make up for decades of neglecting to tell the public of its adverse health impacts and addictiveness. As the "American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network…

1969 Magazine Advertisement "The Can Bag" Campbell's Soup USA

Tobacco marketing has employed all sorts of effective (and often dubious) methods to get cigarettes into our mouths and tar into our lungs. One challenge they have faced it to get both men and women to inhale their carcinogenic fumes. For men, it’s fairly easy. We’ve covered this before: just feature a sexy woman, and … Continue reading "She Sells Smokes: 30 “Women-Only” Vintage Tobacco Ads"

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Quaker’s new cereal Diet Frosted is so deliciously sweet you can’t believe it has no sugar. Cloister in a speech balloon for a Quaker ad from 1965, featuring Elizabeth Montgomery, “star of ABC’s new televison show ‘Bewitched’”.

Unique Classic Movie stickers featuring millions of original designs created and sold by independen...

Prior to Prohibition, there were thousands of breweries in the United States, mostly brewing heavier beers than modern US beer drinkers are ...

by Stephen J. Gertz They take no guff from deadbeats. Original cover art by Casey Jones for Crackers in Bed by Vic Fredericks. P...

Vintage food ads from the 1940s:

There might still be whiff of 'boys toys' about cars but it's nothing when compared to the advertising that went on years ago

Modern advertising constantly straddles the line between creative marketing and straight-up bullshit. But back in the old days, advertising companies got away with winning their bread and butter through straight poker-faced lies.