Looking for great online advertising archives

May 5, 2006 8:05 AM

Where can I find good online resources for TV, out-of-home and print advertising in the US and particularly Europe/UK?

I'm struggling to find comprehensive online archives for various forms of advertising in Europe, the US and the UK. Types of ad I'm particularly interested in are TV, print and OOH (out-of-home). Any ideas (beyond AdCritic for the States) would be appreciated - I don't mind paying for the service if it comes highly recommended!

posted by runkelfinker to Computers & Internet (2 answers total)

Adland has a rather huge archive of TV commercials, probably mostly from the U.S., but I imagine there's some EU stuff as well, and it's only 5 Euros for a 30 day membership. Their blog also covers loads of campaings in all the mediums you're looking for.
posted by dripdripdrop at 8:17 AM on May 5, 2006

Our own dabitch runs a site called Commercial Archive (formerly "ad-rag") which has a huge archive of adverts. I've only just been able to access it (long story) so it's fairly new to me but I'm jolly impressed so far.

www.mad.co.uk and Campaign are more industry-news-related but still feature a lot of ads.
posted by blag at 9:57 AM on May 5, 2006