Frequently Asked Questions

If you have any other questions contact us. Please read this first though, it's amazing how often people email to ask something that is already answered here, which wastes time - yours and ours.

Tech-support (6)

Plugins and such

  1. Quicktime? Does that work with my browser/computer/thingie?
  2. I can't see the image on commercials - only a white square and sound - help! (alt: triangle circle crap)
  3. Searching the site - in ten different ways.
  4. I signed up -> got no email -> self horribly deflated
  5. I created an account last week, and didn't try to log in until now, but the site says I don't have an account - what gives?
  6. How do I set a desktop "wallpaper" background image?
Adgrunts? (7)

Adgrunt advantages

  1. What regular adgrunts can do here.
  2. Adgrunts can Twitter all their posts!
  3. What are "favorites"?
  4. I'm looking for a commercial / advert song title / actress name - can you help me find it?
  5. How do I get my link in the Ad links?
  6. Adgrunts can subscribe to the posts (or topics!) that you want to know more about.
  7. Adgrunts can be notified to everything new on the whole site.
Posting (4)

How to submit work, Uploading, tagging and front page posts

  1. Posting stuff - what goes where?
  2. Submitting older (backlog) commercials to the commercial-archive.
  3. How do I post something to the front page?
  4. Where do I send in my (physical) reels of commercials?
History (5)

About Adland

  1. Short history of Adland
  2. What is Adland the Commercial Archive? What is an Ad-rag? What is an adgrunt? Where do I adrant?
  3. Who posts here?
  4. Advertising on Adland? Doing buisiness with Adland etc.
  5. Press information (if you want to know more about us behind Adland)
Common other questions (5)

Other questions commonly asked that do not fit into the above

  1. Spammers will be blocked - no matter what.
  2. Cancel my membership! / Delete my account
  3. I can't stand ad X take it off the air right now!
  4. Can you put me in touch with [agency]-[director]-[actor]..?
  5. I have an awesome commercial idea! (Good for you...)