International money orders cost money to create at the bank (approx 5 US dollars in the states for example, 4.50 Canadian dollars , 45 Swedish Kroner and so on) - in fact they usually cost more to create than an upgrade around here does.

If you still think this is worth it to you - creating a money order on the sum, plus the cost of creating it on top - there's more bad news. Apart from buying postage and envelopes to Sweden, once it arrives here it costs us one hundred and fifty Swedish kroner to cash the damn thing - effectively eating the entire sum (or more) than we are trying to cash. In the end, we get nothing and the banks laugh a really mean laugh that would have Batman's Joker green with envy. So no, we do not accept international money orders and we think you're a bit silly for even suggesting it.

You have just received an email with a magic link that takes you straight to your brand new account. Check your inbox!

Have a profile photo ready, and a few clever words for your bio.

Now that you are a super adgrunt, a new feature appears under each ad. It's a little movie icon and link to the original file. Click "download link as" and save the file to your desktop. This feature will magically go away when your time is up, but your accounts will remain active (and all your uploads stay)

This is what it looks like.

• Send by email

We don't appreciate those who wish to promote home loans, libido rapido stuff and whatever else link-spammers are shilling these days. Our policy is to delete the comments and users who engage in such behavior, as well as ban their IP#. We do this on the first offense or immediately if the user looks shady (there are only so many 3D animators in the world.)

We can tell the difference between someone who is adding a link relevant to the thread/discussion and those who are not. As a legit adgrunt, don't be afraid to link things, even your own blog or portfolio or twitter-account in comments where it's relevant. Keep where it's relevant in mind, adding your twitter-link to every comment you make is rather tacky. We can find all your information on your profile page, and so can google.

This will send red flags to us as we have a well-trained spam-bot watching the users here;

There's moderation on anything a non-super adgrunt posts. We've run unmoderated for quite some time, but then someone decided to take advantage of our open system and one day we had huge dildos on the front page.

Sorry about that. We now moderate for two reasons. Avoiding dildos, and so that people can upload their backlog of portfolio work to the archive.

When you post new work, or news, we'll have a look at it and send it to the front page asap. Often we'll also send it out on our twitter. If you decide to post your entire backlog of commercials so that your profile acts like your portfolio, we'll let all your posts through as well, but only put your most recent work on the front page, thereby attracting attention to your new profile page (since each post you make is linked to your page).

Oh dear!

Don't worry. It didn't vanish. It was sent back to the moderation queue. I'll put it back up as soon as I see it - if you want you can tweet me at @dabitch or @adland or email us at hostmaster - at - adland.tv that you've edited your post so that I re-approve it pronto.

Sorry about having to do that, but we've seen a few bait-and-switches. It's one thing to correct spelling mistakes. It's quite another to swap out the whole post.

Starting a post with [DATE - CITY] like its a canned press release is a dick move.

Emailing Dabitch/Hostmaster "Ad Blog X already posted about this awesome story" that you're pitching makes us cranky. We hate leftovers.

Constantly making front page posts that link to your own blog without ever once linking back to adland from your blog makes us create little voodoo dolls of you that we stick pins every time we reject your next posts. We're watching you.

Really, avoiding these things isn't hard and kinda obvious courtesy rules.

This is a blog, an adgossip site, a newssite - not a press release depository. Sure you can post news that you are going out with in a release but keep this in mind:

Press releases aren't read

Articles are read. Never start your post with the words "FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE" - the readers will switch off (and in fact, Dabitch will delete those words or consider not approving the post). Write an article, not a release. The difference is not subtle.

For PR folks trained in the press release speak of the world, here's a tip: Take those lovely quotes from key players that you have out of the release, and write an article with them. Try not to repeat the clients name fiftybillion times. Relax, and pretend you're telling a friend about this story over a cup of coffee instead. Don't be afraid of making the post with a personal slant, I promise the post will be more appreciated, and thus spread, that way.

So you have older commercials on your reel that should be included in the archive? Great!

You could email them to us - post them yourself - or (since it's likely that you only have these ads on tape) enlist our help in digitizing the commercials for you. Simply make a copy of your reel and snailmail it to either address below.

In North America, send your work/reels (in one of the following formats: NTSC 1/2" (VHS) or 3/4" tape, DVD (unprotected, Region 1 - US/Canada), or as raw, uncompressed DV files on CD-R or DVD-R) and handy credits/tidbits to:

Clayton T. Claymore
KK, 505 East Main Ave, Suite 250
Bismarck, ND USA 58501

Important - please add as many credits as you recall to each ad, even if it is only the directors name and ad agency. Please add dates of airing for each ad, even approximate ones such as "spring 1987".

Want it promoted on the front page? Sharing trivia about the ad increases your chances, technical trivia, silly trivia, funny trivia. Just tell us more about the ads creation.

You can log in and rate your own ad of course. ;)

Easy-peasy!

1 - Log in.
2 - Click on "post something!"
3 _ Choose "story" (that's the front page news) - or "Print" "Radio" "Commercials" if you're uploading your work.
4 - Type away!

A basic understanding of how to create links in HTML is useful. But if you want to link a twitter-user simply write an @ - that at-sign makes an automagic link. So does the # pound-sign if you want to link a twitter hashtag.

If you're done work worthy of being included in the commercial archive, brand-spankin' new or not-so-brand-spankin' new, send it on in and we'll add it to the collection.

Just be sure to include creative credits, year and country of release, and any interesting tidbits or trivia to add to the mix.

There's no fee (although you can donate to the bandwidth/equipment fund if you so choose), so just take care of the snail mail shipping and there ya go. Or you can send stuff in electronically via email to the hostmaster.

In North America, send your NTSC 3/4" or 1/2" (VHS) reels to:
Clayton T. Claymore
KK, 505 East Main Ave, Suite 250
Bismarck, ND USA 58501

(NOTE: We are not currently accepting submissions from Antarctica due to their agencies' substandard treatment of penguin creatives.)

By sending in your reels, you agree that we will host them in the Commercial-archive | AdLand indefinitely. Copyright of commercial is still yours.

Adland is the Mecca for adgrunts worldwide. It's an advertising site made by the adgrunts, like you, who populate it. More than just a blog (see a short history of weblogs), Adland is also a commercial archive, forum and general gathering place for Adgrunts. Back in 1996 it began it's life as a humble website in Geocities SoHo hood (remember them?) and in 2000 it evolved into what you see today - with Adgrunt user accounts, RSS feeds, forums and dated entries.

In April 2006, Adland turned 10. And it's still here, going strong,thanks to the adgrunt community. Through all different layouts and iterations, the content has always been - ads, ad rants, ad books, badland, ad links and a good ol' ad time. Adland is quite possibly the grandpappy of all advertising blogs.

They say that the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. And that's true of Adland, because it is also a community blog. We are trade press made up of the trade adgrunts (you) and the ad obsessed (you again). Think of Adland's front page as the international blog for any interesting news, gossip, ad critiques, etc. for adgrunts everywhere.

Adland can be reached via the domains: adland.tv, commercial-archive.com and ad-rag.com. All correspondence comes from the adland.tv.

After surfing the web in 95 and finding Zeldman's ad graveyard, Dabitch got inspired to create her own corner of the web - and AdLand was born. The first Badland ads ended up on the same corner of her wee non-interactive webpage where she ad ranted and ad raved - the original concept was to compare ads similar to each other. It had a basic guestbook and she got a lot of email from other adgrunts around the planet. A lot. The site sections were called "debate" (that was badland), "adrants" (that was Dabitch's ranty posts), ad links and ad news. The basic skeleton of this huge site was already there from the start.
To amuse these new friends she called adgrunts, adlist was started in 1997. Ads were gabbed about all day on practically every continent (Still no penguin creatives on the list as of yet). And they still are. In 1998, Shannon started the the commercial-archive. Both the commercial archive and ad-rag moved to the same server in 2000 (as Shannon retired). AdLand encourages the ranting and raving and commercial collecting of all adgrunts worldwide.

Throughout the years, AdLand has had some positively awful colors. The very brave or colorblind may surf its previous incarnations via the waybackmachine.

Adland anno 1996 at: http://users.wineasy.se/adland
Adland anno 1998 at: http://blipp.com/adland
Adland anno 1999/2000 at: http://unltd.tm/adland
Adland anno summer of 2000: http://ad-rag.com
Adland 2006-2009 http://commercial-archive.com
adland 2009 -> http://adland.tv

We've been calling the site Adland since it's humble beginnings in 1996 and old habits die hard. Alas, someone beat us to buying the domain name way back when. Adland is easier to say than ad-dash-rag-dot-com and commercial-dash-archive-dot-com. We use Adland to refer to all the sections ( badland, the adforum, the commercial archive, The Claymore project 35 years of Super Bowl commercials etc) of the site. We now use the domain adland.tv, since early 2009, (and we have adland.eu a well kept secret we revealed in ten silly things you did not know about adland.)

Back in April of 2006, Adland switched the main domain for the site from ad-rag.com to commercial-archive.com due to the former being caught in various ad-blockers (ah the irony). You can read about all the nitty gritty details here.

You do! Any logged in super adgrunt can post a front page news article, and regular adgrunts can post in the forums. That's been the idea since we built this community-blog in 2000, all adgrunts can contribute. Post, vote, comment, rate, tag, play and frolic in the forums where discussions are more relaxed. Make friends and enemies.

Dabitch builds the site as well as runs it. Dabitch's mother dropped her on the head when she was a wee lass and since then she's had a really sick interest in advertising, opting to leave art school for adland. She's posted over tenthousand posts, starting with Badlanders, moving up to adrants and now she gossips and shares submitted commercials all day long. When not ranting about ads she enjoys playing with her turtle, driving her scooter and playing computer games. Yes boys, she's spoken for. ;)

Quite a few adgrunts who grew accustomed to our previous search are wigged out by the new one which acts a little different. Here are som tips to let you play with new ways of searching the sites mass of content.

Let say, you're looking for Nike ads. Using the search box underneath the telly up on the right (or go straight to advanced search type in Nike and get the results.

Maybe you only want to see commercials in your results - use the advanced search to look for commercials only which will bring your results back with the leading screnshot attached, this makes it easier to find the ad you are looking for with fewer search terms.

If you're in a browsy mood you can also stroll through the archives - http://adland.tv/archive

I hope that helps you find what you want, the way you want. :)

So you signed up, double-checked that you spelled your email correctly, and you still didn't receive your welcome/password email. What gives?

Some email servers don't like us and it's pretty common that hotmail.com sends our email to your junk mail folder check in there. Aol.com seems to eat our emails too - some people get them, some don't, some find them in their junk mail folder. If you have any control over a junk mail whitelist try and whitelist the address hostmaster AT adland.tv where our mails come from.

Naturally if something like this happened before you whitelisted our addy you can retrieve your password, and that email will go through.

If nothing is working:
Email the hostmaster, tell us your username and email address, and we'll send off a new password to you.

If your email ends with .ru or .cn or .kr then I'm really sorry, but our server neither accepts nor sends mails to domains in Russia, China, or Korea because these countries are spam heaven and can suckit. We can help you get an account if you email adlands.hostmaster AT gmail.com.

We get bounced emails every day - people misspell their email just slightly and the email comes back to us. I've seen someone sign up first with gmali.com and two minutes later with gmaill.com. If you know you messed up with your email you can always email us and we'll fix it for you.
Dud accounts (never logged in to) are deleted after 24 hours.

So many people make the mistake of mistyping their emails - gmali.com instead of gmail.com being a very frequent example - and spambots sign up with fake accounts here often, so we clean out accounts that have never been logged into after a few days. If you log in, even just once, and begin filling out your personal page and add your personal avatar image, you're safe but if you wait a full week for whatever reason it's likely that your account was deleted with the other dead ones.

Unlike other websites, I actually cull the accounts to clean out spammers and simply "dead accounts" (which could be due to a host of reasons, like misspelled emails or whatnot) on a regular basis. We're striving to have an active user number to brag with, not an inflated registered user number where thousands have never logged in.

Replying to questions like these is eating up much of my time, hence I'm now adding them to the FAQ.

how can i get a "wallpaper" for using as screen saver of the gucci ad with
shaved logo pubes (from 2003)?
thank you very much,
Renato

Right. On a mac, you either "long click" (that means hold the mouse-button down until you get a pop-up menu) or right click until you see this menu. Choose the "set as desktop image" option. Ta-dah. You're done.

On Windows Vista, save the picture in the pictures folder. (you can right click on an image to download it from a website and choose he folder you wish to download it to)
To set a picture as a background - open it, right click and then "select as background".

For any other operating system, please refer to your handbook that came with it.

We've had some troubles with human spammers, who sign up, log in, and then sit carefully constructing comments to older posts shilling their wares such as games, guns, cellphones or little blue pills a.k.a libido rapido. Mainly they're doing it for link-love, I gather.

The anti-spam bot will likely spot you at once, since it views all brand new accounts with no comments as suspect, and it sends me a message about your activity. Your account will be blocked, probably while you are still here spending time writing yet another comment. Your IP# will be banned and you can not post, nor see, the web pages any more.

Just a heads up, it's a huge waste of time to try that shit here since you and your account, and whatever comment you managed to make will last all of five minutes (if it appears at all, the anti-spam bot is very picky these days). Go to a site where the owners don't care. Ta. I figured I should post this somewhere since spammers are operating under the faulty assumption that their idiocy might actually work here. It don't. Now go away.

Due to frequent spam as of late, both I and the spam-trap module have very itchy trigger fingers. If your comments get caught in the spamtrap when they are NOT spam, I'll fix it so that the comment will appear and your trackrecord will remain spam-free. Don't worry, there's human eyes on the site as well.

We're not sure if the misguided people who have difficulty spelling or unlocking their caps lock are serious inquiries or just some ham-fisted attempt at trying to push a mediocre film to be "more viral" but here's the dealio:


You hate [brand name X]'s advert. Email [brand name X]. Leave us the hell out of it. Thanks.


Or here's an idea if you really want to talk about it, log in and comment on the campaign.

Many people ask us how to get in touch with actors or their agents, directors, ad agencies, production companies and so on.

We are not currently offer this dating service, so don't ask. :)

I was hoping that I'd never have to add this question (?) to the FAQ but here's the thing. Many many many people email us - or even call us late at night! - to tell us that they have some awesome commercial idea.

While that's great for you guys, a lot of people like to tell us their commercial ideas and we're not really the people to talk to.

Here's some advice we gave other people in the forums who have advertising ideas and didn't work in the business:

http://adland.tv/node/138033

http://adland.tv/node/142114.

In short, write it down. Shoot it and post it as spec work here and to youtube. Tell your friends or something. There's nothing we can do that will help you execute/sell or produce your idea.