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a digital archive of vintage television commercials dating from the 1950s to the 1980s. Eventually, this collection will feature close to 12,000 digitized commercials

This articles gives viewers tips on how to analyze television commercials, because they can affect us in many ways even if we do not realize it. This article mentions six main questions that are important to keep in mind while viewing commercials. First one must consider what the product or service that is being promoted is, next one must consider what advertising techniques the companies are using to market their products. Thirdly one must determine how the music in the commercial is helpful in marketing the product. One must also consider how the actors affect their view of the product, and specify what the advertisement is doing to capture the viewers attention. Lastly one must determine who the commercials target audience is, and after a person has answered all these questions then and only then will they understand media literacy.

This commercial uses two terms from the language of persuasion. It uses simple solutions by saying just with this one product your hair will instantly go from laying flat to looking fabulous. The commercial tries to make it sound so easy that anyone can use this product. These commercial also uses bribery, by throwing in extras for "free".

Wow, we could probably spend loads of time on just this one issue!

"Where once morality and meaning were available as part of our free cultural inheritance, now corporations sell them to us as products." "This is basically the commercial exploitation of spirituality," he says, adding that as a result Disney and other corporations "inhabit our imagination".

The indefatigable Ar. Sanjay Puri earns his 74th international award for Reservoir - an office building in Rajasthan - now on his drawing board. Check out the concept here and leave us your views…

Few consumers have ever heard of Acxiom. But analysts say it has amassed the world's largest commercial database on consumers - and that it wants to know much, much more.

The Bota Bota 'pavilions' follow an architectural intention that creates a simple but yet elegant set of monolithic volumes that frames strong perspectives; a public space delight! Read here and leave us your views…

Mast-like silhouettes adorn the 29-storey China Minmetals Corp Tower in Shenzhen. Check out the design that has just been unveiled and leave us your views…

Concrete design studio use post modernism and pastiche elements to recreate Asian street-food themed restaurant in Amsterdam. Check it out and tell us what you think of it…

UN Studio's winning design for the proposed 'Theatre on the Parade' in Holland is contextually grounded with equal emphasis on the overall experience of the theatergoer and the public qualities of the project. Check it out and leave us your views...

The new rehearsal building for the Oper am Rhein ballet company in Düsseldorf blends simple form with experiential ambience. Check it out and leave us your views…

Ar. Zaha Hadid works with layered interiors to foster the dynamism and collaborative principles of the IT industry in this building in Moscow. Check it out and leave us your views…

This article by Noam Cohen describes the controversy over the use of public photos on flickr. Flickr is a website used to share images with family and friends, which is now being used by company's and site's selling images without the approval of their owners. One example was Virgin Mobile's use of a picture of Alison Chang, a 15 year old, in one of their campaigns without her knowledge. The picture was under the protection of a creative commons that allowed it to be used for commercial use, making this issue more about privacy than about copyright. Virgin Mobile responded that they were "promoting creative freedom and didn't do anything wrong."

Who's winning the message war, Obama or McCain? Kathleen Hall Jamieson, a leading analyst of political advertising, dissects three commercials from Barack Obama and three from John McCain.

Cotton commercial - clever flash game

I'm on a horse. For real.

In between the Dr Pepper, Doritos and Bud Light commercials airing during the Super Bowl on Feb. 7, one first-time advertiser will be pushing God's product line. Focus on the Family will air a 30-second "life- and family-affirming" television spot, featuring University of Florida star quarterback Tim Tebow and his mother, Pam, during the coverage.