About Adland - the short version.

Adland was founded as an old fashioned website back in the spring of 1996 by Dabitch. The core idea was to bitch, rant and gossip about advertising while collecting ads of all media for reference, and gather all likeminded adgrunts to join in while showing off their ad-work. The nome de plume habit was to prevent us all from getting canned - Dabitch still works as an advertising Art Director by day.

In 2000 we restructured with RSS feeds, user logins and a nice fat database to become a community, or a blog, or both depending on who you ask. This makes us the worlds very first advertising blog. We still think it's just Adland mind you.

We have now grown to over eighty thousand members and fourtythree thousand commercials collected and have the worlds largest Super bowl commercial collection in the world (both on and offline). Our hall of fame has numbers always up to date.

Dabitch and the core crew work on Adland pro-bono. Despite rumors to contrary we're not foreign to the idea of "selling out" as we always want Adland to expand and grow bigger and better. Serious inquirers only.

You can always contact Dabitch via host AT ad-rag.com - or this contact form. If you wish to submit ads there's advice on the submit work page.

We have a Frequently Asked Questions.

We've tried to collect all press clippings / our fifteen megabytes of fame regarding Adland here.

There are originals and the there are all the me-too's. Adland was there first.
This isn't a corporate site disguised as a blog. It's the real thing. Dabitch rocks.

- Luke Sullivan, creative director & author of Hey Whipple, squeeze this!

The best fucking ad blog in the Universe... AdScam is second...

-George Parker author of Madscam and the blog Adscam

If you simply scratch the surface, it feels like Ad Critic's snarky overseas cousin has been kibitzing with a healthy dose of MetaFilterati. Dig past the digital dermis and it's apparent that there's a lot more to Adland than archived commercials and communal media schmear.

- Grant Hutchinson at Veer

Adland is a pretty amazing advertising community site, with over 10,000 ads online and discussion boards galore. Marco calls it "a MetaFilter for ad- and ad-obsessed people.

- Cory Doctorow Boingboing

If you use TiVo to skip the show and watch the commercials, you ought to visit Adland, also sometimes known as Commercial Archive, ad-rag.com and Badland (those are also now the names of Adland sections.)

- Travis F. Smith Variety