Advertising, PR and Media Design: Creatives & Copywriting

The Ad*Access Project at Duke University has images and database information for over 7,000 advertisements printed in U.S. and Canadian newspapers and magazines between 1911 and 1955. Ad*Access concentrates on five main subject areas: Radio, Television, Transportation, Beauty and Hygiene, and World War II.

Founded by the late Sir Roger Delfont, ADSAUSAGE is an open access database of printed material artifacts. Since 2004, ADSAUSAGE has curated a vast array of material spanning the past fifty years. Additionally, the holdings contain a large amount of pop-culture, including special collections on fashion, film, design, Los Angeles history and much more.

Classic TV commercials and public service announcements (PSAs) uploaded by archive.org users.

This is a collection of over 60,000 "ephemeral" (advertising, educational, industrial, and amateur) films.

The Advertising Archives was established in 1990 by Larry and Suzanne Viner and is the largest and most comprehensive resource of its kind in Europe. The collection spans the years from the mid 19th Century to the present day. Some content and features are behind a paywall and CU Boulder is not a subscriber.

The History of Advertising Trust (HAT) is an archive of advertisements from the United Kingdom. TV commercials, radio commercials, and print advertisements from the 1860-2015 can be viewed on its website.

The not for profit foundation that includes posters, print advertisements, commercials, and more that as far as the Foundation could establish are free from copyright. International in scope and includes print ads going back to the 1800s and TV commercials going back to the 1950s.