Modern advertising and the market for audience attention : the US advertising industry's turn-of-the-twentieth-century transition / Zoe Sherman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sherman, Zoe, author.

Contributor:

Henry Putney Beers Fund.

Series:

Routledge explorations in economic history

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Advertising--United States--History--19th century.

Advertising.

Advertising--United States--History--20th century.

Advertising--United States--History--21st century.

History.

United States.

Physical Description:

xiii, 171 pages ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2020.

Summary:

"Modern advertising was created in the US between 1870 and 1920 when advertisers and the increasingly specialized advertising industry that served them crafted means of reliable access to and knowledge of audiences. This highly original and accessible book re-centers the story of the invention of modern advertising on the question of how access to audiences was streamlined and standardized. Drawing from late-nineteenth and early-twentieth-century materials, especially from the advertising industry's professional journals and the business press, chapters on the development of print media, billboard, and direct mail advertising illustrate the struggles amongst advertisers, intermediaries, audience-sellers, and often-resistant audiences themselves. Over time, the maturing advertising industry transformed the haphazard business of getting advertisements before the eyes of the public into a market in which audience attention could be traded as a commodity. This book applies economic theory with historical narrative to explain market participants' ongoing quests to expand the reach of the market and to increase the efficiency of attention harvesting operations. It will be of interest to scholars of contemporary American advertising, the history of advertising more generally, and also of economic history and theory"-- Provided by publisher.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Henry Putney Beers Fund.

ISBN:

9781138201545

1138201545

OCLC:

1114970295

Publisher Number:

99983496307