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  • ISBN:
    0749448377
  • ISBN-13:
    9780749448370
  • PUB. DATE:
    September 2007
  • PUBLISHER:
    Kogan Page, Ltd.
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Adland: A Global History of Advertising by Mark Tungate

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  • Pub. Date: September 2007
  • Publisher: Kogan Page, Ltd.
  • Sales Rank: 395,546

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Bestselling author and journalist Mark Tungate examines key developments in advertising, from print, radio, and television advertisements to the opportunities afforded by digital media, focuses on key players in the industry, and features exclusive interviews with leading names in international advertising.

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In this heady, well-researched gem, British journalist Tungate (Fashion Brands) illustrates the history and globalization of the $400 billion a year advertising industry. Tungate begins by simultaneously addressing consumers' skepticism (or outright disdain) toward the "jargon, psychobabble and double talk of advertising" and advertisers' laudable financing of "a free, varied, democratic media," before hunting down the field's birth during the Industrial Revolution. He traces the industry from there through today's exploding media frontier of new global markets, viral advertising and seemingly infinite bandwidth. Along the way, he looks at trailblazers like Bill Bernbach and David Ogilvy, whose prosperous agencies and their offspring propelled advertising worldwide, and especially in the U.S., throughout the 20th century. He looks at key players, time periods and hot spots (Madison Avenue in the 1950s, Tokyo's Dentsu, the Omnicom megamerger) with snappy storytelling, interviews with bigwigs and bucketsful of trivia. Tungate argues effectively that the prevalence and effectiveness of a given country's advertising is commensurate with that country's entire economy; media enthusiasts and professionals will find this a handy, entertaining and insightful guide to the past and future of the ad world. (Sept.)

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Biography

Mark Tungate is a journalist specializing in marketing, media, and communication. He is the author of the books Adland, Fashion Brands, Branded Beauty and Branded Male. As a journalist, Mark has written for publications such as The Times, The Telegraph, and The Independent. He has a weekly column in the French media magazine Stratégies and writes about marketing, fashion and design for the website Stylus.com. Alongside his writing, he teaches at Parsons Paris School of Art and Design.