The real Mad Men television advertising archive

Fans of the hit US drama series Mad Men will love this website. Adviews is a digital archive of TV advertising from the 1950′s through to the 80′s. There are literally thousands of ads in the archive. They were created or collected by the ad agency Benton & Bowles or its successor, D’Arcy Masius Benton & Bowles (DMB&B).It would be wonderful to see a digital archive of Irish adverts created along these lines too. In case you missed it first time round, you can still catch the excellent documentary Ireland’s Mad Men on RTE Player. It explores Ireland’s advertising industry from the 60′s to the 80′s and includes footage of popular ad campaigns of the time. Hurry though - it is only available on the web until Tuesday 29th September.