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advertising
advertising in general, any openly sponsored offering of goods, services, or ideas through any medium of public communication. At its inception advertising was merely an announcement; for example, entrepreneurs in ancient Egypt used criers to announce ship and cargo arrivals. The invention of print... Read more
Madison Avenue
Madison Avenue celebrated street of Manhattan, borough of New York City. It runs from Madison Square (23d St.) to the Madison Bridge over the Harlem River (138th St.). In the 1940s and 50s, some of the major U.S. advertising agencies had headquarters in its midtown section, and the name of the aven... Read more
Junius
Junius English political author, known only by the signature Junius, which he signed to various letters written to the London Public Advertiser from Jan., 1769, to Jan., 1772, attacking George III and his ministers. The letters, centering on John Wilkes and the controversy over the Middlesex el... Read more
Benjamin Franklin Bache
Benjamin Franklin Bache , 1769-98, American journalist, b. Philadelphia; son of Richard Bache and grandson of Benjamin Franklin . In 1790 he founded the Philadelphia General Advertiser (later the Aurora ). As the champion of the Jeffersonians, Bache's paper denounced the Federalists bitterly, ... Read more
white-collar crime
white-collar crime term coined by Edward Sutherland for nonviolent crimes committed by corporations or individuals such as office workers or sales personnel (see white-collar workers ) in the course of their business activities. White-collar crimes include embezzlement, false advertising, bribery,... Read more
market research
market research organized use of sample surveys, polls , focus groups, and other techniques to study market characteristics (e.g., ages and incomes of consumers; consumer attitudes) and improve the efficiency of sales and distribution. Development of new products, opening of new markets, measureme... Read more
Lorrin Andrews Thurston
Lorrin Andrews Thurston 1858-1931, lawyer and newspaper publisher. He was the son of missionaries in Hawaii. Favoring U.S. annexation of Hawaii, he was one of the leaders of the revolution (1893) that overthrew Queen Liliuokalani. Thurston drafted the constitution for the provisional Hawaiian gover... Read more
William Addison Dwiggins
William Addison Dwiggins 1880-1956, American type designer, calligrapher, and book designer, b. Martinsville, Ohio. He attained prominence as an illustrator and commercial artist, and he brought to the designing of type and books some of the boldness that he displayed in his advertising work. His t... Read more
Dorothy Leigh Sayers
Dorothy Leigh Sayers , 1893-1957, English writer, grad. Somerville College, Oxford, 1915. Taking first-class honors in medieval literature, she was one of the first women to receive an Oxford degree. For a time she worked as a copywriter in a London advertising agency—the setting for her Murd... Read more
Amelia Jenks Bloomer
Amelia Jenks Bloomer 1818-94, American reformer, b. Homer, N.Y. She was editor (1848-54) of the Lily, first published in Seneca Falls, N.Y., and devoted to women's rights and to temperance. In 1851 she recommended and adopted the reformed dress of short skirt and full trousers introduced by Eliza... Read more

Encyclopedia entries related to "Billboard (advertising)"

Advertising Strategy
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Small Business ...Web. Direct mail. Outdoor advertising — Billboards, advertisements on public...crucial stage in developing the advertising strategy, therefore, is...message. Implementation The advertising campaign itself is distinct...
SIC 7312 Outdoor Advertising Services
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of American Industries ...the most popular billboard spaces, once dominated...According to the Outdoor Advertising Association of America...billion in 1998. Billboards alone generated the...to fully utilize advertising on mass transit buses...of off-premise advertising — called...better known as a ...
Advertising Agencies
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Small Business ...for clients. The final advertising provided by an agency should...yellow pages, on outdoor advertising locations which can include billboards, and commercial signs...evaluate how to best spend advertising dollars: if a newspaper...
Advertising
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Business and Finance, 2nd ed. ...this early beginning, advertising has evolved to take a...delivery mechanisms for advertising include banners at sporting events, billboards, Internet Web sites...television commercials. Advertising has so permeated everyday...
Advertising and Tobacco Use
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Drugs, Alcohol, and Addictive Behavior ...to target youth in the advertising, promotion, or marketing...Effective April 23, 1999, billboards, stadium signs, and transit signs advertising tobacco are banned. However...cartoon characters in advertising, promoting, packaging...
Montpelier: Transportation
Encyclopedia entry from: Cities of the United States ...connections south and west. Interstate 89 in the Central Vermont region has won awards for its beauty. The state bans billboard advertising along its highways to emphasize the scenic beauty of its countryside. Traveling in the City Locals appreciate...
Administrative and Public Health Law
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Drugs, Alcohol, and Addictive Behavior ...evictions of problem tenants, and improved property management. Bans on drug paraphernalia, alcohol-related billboard advertising, spray paint, and cigarette machines in high crime areas are used in an attempt to disrupt the illegal activities...
Automobile, Origin of
Encyclopedia entry from: Gale Encyclopedia of U.S. Economic History ...with the automobile launched related industries including roadside eateries, drive-in movies, motels, and billboard advertising along highways. The car transformed America into a mobile society. By the end of the twentieth century most...
Community Organization
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Public Health ...among special groups) or whether the goal is to achieve health-policy changes (e.g., to eliminate tobacco billboard advertising near schools). THE FIVE STAGES OF COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION In many community organization strategies, a five...
Profanity
Encyclopedia entry from: International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences ...satellite radio being exceptions in most countries); censorship occurs in television, radio, newspaper, billboard, magazine, and advertising content. Profanity is heard more frequently in media than obscenity, but that trend could change. In...

Dictionary entries related to "Billboard (advertising)"

Venturi, Robert Charles
Book article from: A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture ...live in the landscape of sheds and paper-thin architecture that is really a billboard advertising what is within. Thus the Sainsbury Wing is a ‘billboard done in Portland Stone’, an architecture that is about the external...
advertise
Book article from: The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English ...attention to (a product, service, or event) in a public medium in order to promote sales or attendance: a billboard advertising beer [ intr. ] we had a chance to advertise on television. ∎  seek to fill (a vacancy...
Rosenquist, James
Book article from: A Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Art ...as a commercial artist and billboard painter, and he later recalled...excitement on entering an advertising factory for the first time...who knew this part of the advertising world as an insider. In...adapted the imagery of his advertising work. Mathew Baigell writes...
Marketing
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History ...golden age of brand names." Advertising also came into its own during...twentieth century. The first advertising agency was established in...in a newspaper in 1879. Advertising media were powerfully supplemented...electric trolleys, trams, billboards, and the explosion in magazine...
Brickman, Jim
Dictionary entry from: Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Popular Musicians Since 1990 ...focused on creating music for advertising campaigns, known in the...for a variety of national advertising accounts such as McDonalds...its genre by landing on the Billboard 200 chart. What ensued was...productive days of writing advertising jingles, Brickman discovered...
Zap Mama
Dictionary entry from: Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Popular Musicians Since 1990 ...singing group among the international music cognoscenti. Billboard magazine named them one of the top twenty world-music bands...ethnic costumes, made them irresistible to media outlets and advertising agencies hungry for salable images. Adventures in Afropea...

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2007 Digital Outdoor Advertising Forecast Predicts Strides in Optimizing Billboard Revenues.
Business Wire; 12/5/2006; 700+ words ; ...dependable digital billboards available...its digital billboard advertising forecast for...lead outdoor advertising companies to...boards. Digital billboards allow several...share the same billboard, multiplying...3. Digital billboard networks will rival other ...
Billboard advertising affects the bottom line.(FOCUS: RAISING THE BOTTOM LINE)
Magazine article from: Air Conditioning, Heating & Refrigeration News; 10/27/2008; ; 700+ words ; ...world, is billboard advertising. What was...Burma Shave billboards that graced...popular form of advertising today. Billboard advertising...and most billboards are concentrated...have banned billboard advertising, its popularity...
Illinois Highway Officials Welcome Billboard Advertising.
Newspaper article from: Chicago Tribune (Chicago, IL); 3/19/2004; 700+ words ; ...had turned down an advertising proposal in the 1990s...national effort to make billboards go away." The large...landscape. While anti-billboard activists concede...the proliferation of billboards. "And it's one...because until the billboard is put up in front...the use of outdoor ...
Spokane, Wash., Advertising Firm Operates with 23-Billboard Maximum.
Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News; 11/10/2002; 700+ words ; ...vehicles, he said. Billboards also offer a modestly...for instance, used billboard advertising several years ago...Robideaux concedes billboards are most effective...rating for all the billboards in that location. Other billboard features -- such...company charges for ...
Read this now `Unavoidable' billboards catch the attention of the advertising world
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe; 8/9/1994; ; 700+ words ; ...are less rigid, billboards have included twirling...a treadmill. The billboard industry itself is...According to the Outdoor Advertising Association of America...market with 2,100 billboards, appears also to...a relatively few billboards can reach the entire...day can drive by a ...
HEALTH DISTRICT RESTRICTS BILLBOARDS ADVERTISING TOBACCO
Newspaper article from: The Columbian; 3/18/1998; ; 700+ words ; ...not know how many billboards would be affected...from any tobacco billboard advertising in the two counties...to ban tobacco advertising within 2,000...accepts tobacco advertising on any billboards in King County...
Profile: Billboard advertising campaign by Los Angeles' Museum of Contemporary Art
Transcript from: NPR All Things Considered; 2/6/2001; ; 700+ words ; ...0000 Profile: Billboard advertising campaign by Los...commissioned a series of billboards and other advertisements...range is a MOCA billboard. It reads...The 60 or so billboards around LA feel...brought these billboards to the street...traditional one in advertising: to ...
Billboard Ban Having Minimal Effect on Tobacco Advertising, According to Study
Newspaper article from: U.S. Newswire; 7/19/2000; 700+ words ; ...The 1999 ban on billboard advertising has not deterred...for instance, from billboards to point-of-purchase...effect of partial advertising bans may be lost...the impact of the billboard advertising ban and other restrictions...
Token Leases Fail to Avoid Ban On Off-Premises Advertising.(billboard regulations, California)(Brief Article)
Newspaper article from: Land Use Law Report; 2/14/2001; 700+ words ; ...billboard was used for advertising off-premises businesses...for off-premises advertising in 1993. Caltrans...proposed use of the billboard would be along a segment...State law prohibits billboards along segments of...property on which the billboard is placed. Trial...building. The ...
Camel to go extinct, along with all Texas tobacco billboard advertising
News Wire article from: AP Online; 3/4/1998; ; 668 words ; ...Dusek said. Tobacco advertising has been under attack for...started dominating the outdoor advertising industry. About 400,000 billboards dot the nation's interstate...federal highways. But the billboard industry saw the writing...spokeswoman for Outdoor Advertising Association of America...