Adbusters is a global network of artists, activists, writers, pranksters, students, educators and entrepreneurs who want to advance the new social activist movement of the information age. It publishes Adbusters Magazine, which offers articles and commentary from around the world addressing issues ranging from genetically modified foods to media concentration.

Opposing the trends toward intrusive advertising (such as in schools, at movie theaters, on the phone, and through email spam), this site offers guidance in how to limit or prevent such ads and write complaint letters.

"The Gallup Organization is a for-profit think-tank that has studied human nature and behavior for more than 70 years." Results of selected polls are publicly available at this site.

Current information about direct marketing and direct response advertising.

The Research Resources section has many links to the advertising world, bibliographies, a dictionary, legal and ethical information, quotations, articles and more. There is also an archive of outdoor advertising from 1992 to the present.

This research guide has sections with links for Internet databases, online articles, advertising and kids, historical advertising, and more.

The Ad*Access Project presents images and database information for over 7,000 advertisements printed in U.S. and Canadian newspapers and magazines between 1911 and 1955. Ad*Access concentrates on five main subject areas: Radio, Television, Transportation, Beauty and Hygiene, and World War II.

The world's largest archive of classic print and magazine ads.

Located in Portland, OR, the museum houses the industry's most comprehensive collection of advertising and business artifacts, assembled through contributions and loans from advertising agencies, advertisers, media, private collectors and other museums, including the Smithsonian Institution.

Television commercials from all over the world..

The Diamond collection of political commercials range from local through federal government levels. They also range from some of the earliest examples during the Eisenhower campaign to the first Clinton campaign in the early 1990s.

The Eisner Museum is an interactive educational center focusing on advertising and design, and their impact on our culture. It emphasizes the social, historical and aesthetic implications of advertising and design. It is located in Milwaukee, WI.

The EAA site offers over 9,000 images, with database information, relating to the early history of advertising in the United States. A part of the John W. Hartman Center for Sales, Advertising & Marketing History at Duke University.

Among the Hartman Center's collections are those for the J. Walter Thompson Co., D'Arcy Masius Benton & Bowles (DMB&B), outdoor advertising, and the online Emergence of Advertising in America: 1850 - 1920 database.

The HAT Archive contains some two million items of British advertising, marketing, media, public relations and related material, together with a supporting library of books and periodicals. The oldest material is the archive of R.F. White (c.1800), the UK's first ad agency.

The more than 66,000 commercials in the archive date back to 1936 for radio and to 1950 for television and represent candidates running for offices ranging from the U. S. Presidency to school boards throughout the United States. The archive also contains commercials by political action committees, advertisements sponsored by corporations and special interest groups on public issues, and commercials done for elections outside the United States.

The "world's biggest advertising archive for creatives," with over 20,000 ads. The archive emphasizes creativity in the world of advertising and graphic design. It can be searched through lists of categories, countries, credits, media, periods and keywords.

At the offices of CreatAbility

Housed in New York, NY, it includes sections on Edward L. Bernays, Moss Kendrix, Carl R. Byoir, Arthur W. Page, and Chester Burger. There is also a reference library with an online bibliography.

The world's largest collection of British advertising images, with over 500,000 images. There are lists and thumbnails of images, but full images must be purchased. The list of links is useful for UK nostalgia.

The Roper Center exists to promote the intelligent, responsible and imaginative use of public opinion in addressing the problems faced by Americans and citizens of other nations. Poll and survey results can be found in Lexis-Nexis Academic Universe: see under the Reference section.