Advertising history

J. Walter Thompson (d. 1920's) is the namesake of the world-famous advertising agency.

Maurice Saatchi and Charles Saatchi are namesakes of the equally world-famous advertising agency called Saatchi & Saatchi.

Daniel Lord (d. 1930) and Ambrose Thomas are also namesakes of the advertising agency.

Albert Lasker (d. 1950's) is a pioneer of the modern advertising trend.

Maurice Needham (d. 1966), John J. Louis (1890's-1950's) and Melvin Brorby (1890's-1996) are the namesakes of the Chicago-based advertising agency.

Emerson H. Foote (1906-1990's), Fairfax H. Cone (1900's-1977) and Don Belding (1897-1969) are the namesakes of the advertising agency called FCB, which rose from the ashes of Lord & Thomas.

David Ogilvy (d. 1990's) and Edmund Mather are the namesakes of another advertising agency.

William G. Tragos, Claude Bonnange, Uli Wiesendanger and Paolo Ajroldi use the first letter of their surnames for the advertising agency called TBWA.

John Orr Young and Raymond Rubicam (1890's-1978) are also advertising masters.

Michael Manton (1920's-2013), David Kingsley (1929-2014) and Brian Palmer (1929-2014) are also advertising masters.

Marcel Bleustein-Blanchet (1906-1996) and Maurice Levy (b. 1942) are also advertising trailblazers.

Frank Campbell (d. 1950's), Henry Ewald (d. 1953) and Karl Eller (1920's-2010's) are also advertising executives.

George Batten (d. 1918), Bruce Barton (d. 1960's), Roy Sarles Durstine (d. 1962) and Alex Faickney Osborn (d. 1966) are namesakes of the advertising agency called BBDO.

Hill Blackett (1890's-1960's) and John Glen Sample (b. 1890's) are also advertising masters.

Frank Hummert (d. 1966), Howard M. Dancer and Clifford Fitzgerald are also involved in an agency being co-run by Hill Blackett and John Glen Sample.

James Doyle (1902-1989), Maxwell Dane (b. 1906) and Bill Bernbach (d. 1980's) are namesakes of an equally world-famous advertising agency called DDB Worldwide.

Alan Morris (b. 1942) and Allan Johnston are namesakes of an advertising agency called Mojo.

Mojo created its own unique cinematic style imitated by other agencies in the advertising business.

The Australian advertising answers to both John Lennon and Paul McCartney from The Beatles, both Alan Morris and Allan Johnston from Mojo changed the advertising world.

Chiat/Day developed its own innovative advertising style fused with pop culture.

John Pearce, Ronnie Dickenson and John Collett are the namesakes of another advertising agency.

Frank Lowe (b. 1941) worked at Collett Dickenson Pearce, before starting the eponymous agency.

Brian Monahan, Lyle Dayman and Phillip Adams (b. 1930's) are namesakes of another agency.

In the late-1980's, Monahan Dayman Adams (MDA) merged with Mojo, which, in turn, merged with Chiat/Day in 1989.

Mojo/MDA was sold by Chiat/Day to FCB in the early-1990's or before 1993, after its 1989 merger.

Another three years after Mojo/MDA's early-1990's sale to FCB, TBWA merged with Chiat/Day in the mid-1990's or before 1996.

John Bartle, Nigel Bogle and John Hegarty are namesakes of the world-famous advertising agency.

Ian Batey (b. 1937) and Michael Ball (1936-2010's) are men who changed advertising in Asia.

William Morris (d. circa 1929) and William Morris Jr. (1890's-1989) are some entertainment agents.

Michael Ovitz, Ronald Meyer, Nat Lefowitz (1905-1980's) and Ted Ashley (1920's-2002) are the other entertainment agents.

The first real television commercial in both the US and the entire world is Bulova watches, lasting 10 seconds and seen on WNBT on its July 1, 1941 launch.

Crossing the pond, television commercials began with Gibbs S.R. on ITV.

In 1969, an advertisement for Birds Eye peas was Britain's first colour television commercial, which featured a young girl and the tagline: We pick 'em younger.

Ridley Scott Associates (RSA) is also a pioneer in the advertising world.

Hugh Hudson, Alan Parker and Adrian Lyne, aside from Ridley Scott and Tony Scott, are individuals working for Ridley Scott Associates.

1984, a commercial to introduce Apple Macintosh, was directed by Ridley Scott

Mojo, the Australian advertising answer to The Beatles, has its unique approach, which eschewed the influences of both the American and the British advertising industries.

Since 1981, when MTV and Quantel's systems began, television commercials have used an MTV-like cinematic style, often incorporating text displayed in video and without film grain.

Television commercials seen across the Eastern Bloc used low production values during the Cold War period, many of which were shot on video, especially during the 1980's, some on film.

During the post-Cold War era, ads across the Eastern Bloc began to use high production values, many being shot on film in Western quality and looked like US ones.

Huge changes for advertising in the Eastern Bloc during the post-Cold War era have made production values become more in line with television commercials seen across the Western world.

Just before the Yugoslav Wars, television ads used low production values, many of which were usually filmed on video, especially during the 1980's, some on film.

But during the period following these wars, television ads have also shifted towards higher production values, resembling Western standards and being filmed with professional quality film.

Even in communist countries with capitalist elements like Vietnam, television ads use high production values, many of which were shot on film in Western quality and looked like US ones.