This essay discusses how working from within an advertising agency as an anthropologist yields particular advantages in terms of presenting anthropological insights and gaining access to information that one would not have been privy to, compared to a study of advertising from the outside....

Introduction: Black women and Madison Avenue -- Women and African-Americans in the advertising profession: an historical overview of the industry and people -- Barbara Gardner Proctor: unconventional advertising pioneer -- Caroline Robinson Jones: tenacious advertising trailblazer -- Joel P....

Introduction -- The development of modern advertising -- From traditional to industrial society -- Advertising in the transition from industrial to consumer society -- Advertising and the development of twentieth-century communications media -- The development of agencies in the bonding of...

The Cannes Lions festival is one of the most important international indicators for professionals in the creative communications industry. Throughout the past few years there are a rising number of submissions and award winners coming from emerging and developing countries. This fact is...

We customize the aggregative game approach to oligopoly to study asymmetric media markets. Advertiser, platform, and consumer surplus are tied together by a simple summary statistic. When media are ad-financed and ads are a nuisance to consumers we establish see-saws between consumers and...

Introduction -- Globalisation of advertising : an overview of trends and issues / John Sinclair -- Globalisation, branding, and advertising's stakeholders / Linda Brennan and Robert Crawford -- Digital advertising and the new world of "viral" advertising / Lukas Parker, Dang Nguyen and Linda...

Introduction -- The knowledge economy and perceptions of knowledge -- Knowledge work : issues and perspectives -- Critical perceptions of creativity and knowledge work -- A theoretical framework of creative knowledge work -- Advertising I -- Advertising II -- Information technology software I --...