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  2. History of advertising - Wikipedia

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    Advertising revenue as a percent of US GDP shows a rise in audio-visual and digital advertising at the expense of print media. [1] The history of advertising can be traced to ancient civilizations. It became a major force in capitalist economies in the mid-19th century, based primarily on newspapers and magazines.

  3. William Caxton - Wikipedia

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    Printer's mark of William Caxton, 1478. A variant of the merchant's mark. William Caxton (c. 1422 – c. 1491) was an English merchant, diplomat and writer.He is thought to be the first person to introduce a printing press into England in 1476, and as a printer to be the first English retailer of printed books.

  4. History of American newspapers - Wikipedia

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    Instead of printing four pages on the front and back of a large sheet of paper, they printed only pages 1 and 4. Pages 2 and 4 arrived already printed, and filled with advertising, essays and stories. The paper was very cheap to buy, and made the newspaper much more attractive to women. [67] [68]

  5. History of printing - Wikipedia

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    A flexo print is achieved by creating a mirrored master of the required image as a 3D relief in a rubber or polymer material. A measured amount of ink is deposited upon the surface of the printing plate (or printing cylinder) using an anilox roll. The print surface then rotates, contacting the print material which transfers the ink.

  6. How Nike's Bo Knows campaign came to be - AOL

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    The first print ad that Bo did for Nike appeared not long after he described playing running back in the NFL as a “hobby.” Beneath the image of a bare-chested Bo wearing shoulder pads and ...

  7. Early American publishers and printers - Wikipedia

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    The first magazine that appeared in American colonies, The American Monthly Magazine, was printed by Andrew Bradford in February 1741, edited by John Webbe. The first religious periodical published in America, was the Ein Geistliches Magazin, by Sower in 1764. [37]

  8. John Caples - Wikipedia

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    Caples began his advertising career in 1925, [4] creating his first printed ad for Arthur Murray Dance Studios. [3] In 1926, he created a mail-order advertisement for the U.S. School of Music with the headline, "They Laughed When I Sat Down at the Piano But When I Started to Play!"

  9. History of newspaper publishing - Wikipedia

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    The first Italian gazettes appeared in the first half of the 17th century. Scholars suppose that the first newspaper printed in Italy was edited in Florence in 1636 by Amador Massi and Lorenzo Landi, but no issue was discovered to confirm that conjecture. [14] [15] The first Italian printed newspaper, Genova, was published in Genoa from