Advertisement- Where did it come from?

It would certainly seem that it has come a very long way since it first started out, but just how far has it really managed to come?

Advertising started a very long time ago when the Egyptians were the men of the world. Egyptians are famous for many inventions and inventing advertising seems to be another one of their most brilliant ones ever. They had already previously started to use papyrus (first paper) to record many things on. The Egyptians then caught on to advertisement and started to use this papyrus to make sales messages and posters to go onto walls. It was this that kicked everything off with the rest of the world’s future generations.

It is also known that Pompeii, the city destroyed by the terrible forces of nature, actually had used adverts to show off commercial messages.The middle ages also used advertising but because many of the people couldn’t read they invented the image form of advertising so people would know which shop was which.Town criers were also introduced to advertise things such as fruit and vegetable carts.

If you were then to think foward many, many years the invention of the radio came into play and of course with this came the quirky jingle advertisements. Next came the invention of the TV, which was closely followed by the arrival of the design agency started to come about.

Of course nowadays advertisement is used in almost everything from video games and public transport and even used in public schools. We have also seen a range of different formats, from direct mail marketing to twist banner stand so things are really starting to come along.

Just how long is it possible for advertisment to grow? With every new piece of technology advertising seems to sneak its way into the world, so be prepared to start seeing it get a lot worse.

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