Monday 7 March 2016

Worlds first ever Television advertisement.


The first ever television advertisement was broadcaster on July 1st 1941 in the US over the New York station WNBT.

The advertisement was for watchmaker Bulova (manufacturer of watches and clocks. Its headquarters is located in New York City). 


The Ad showed Bulova logo with the phrase "Bulova Watch Time", was shown in the lower right-hand quadrant of the test pattern while the second hand swept around the dial for one minute. The background being the map of United States. (The voice over it says "America runs on Bulova time").



The ad was shown before a baseball game between the Brooklyn Dodgers and Philadelphia Phillies ,The ad lasted about 10 seconds, for which the company paid anywhere from $4.00 (Rs.268.32) to $9.00 (Rs.603.72) (reports vary),  a TV spot on a national television channel, during peak view demand like a sports game, would today cost several million dollars.

Every advertisement seen since (for better or worse) has a common lineage in this moment

Source: 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Television_advertisement#cite_ref-3

http://www.openculture.com/2013/08/watch-the-first-commercial-ever-shown-on-american-tv-1941.html

2 comments:

  1. Good one! Something nobody would have read or heard much 😊 Its a great start..Happy blogging😁

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    1. Thank you soo much anusha :) will try and stay up to the mark :)

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