Advertising Council

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Information for Authority record

Name (Latin)
Advertising Council
Other forms of name
Ad Council
Coordinates
-73.9718453 -73.9718453 40.7509767 40.7509767 (gooearth )
Biographical or Historical Data
formed in 1942
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Other Identifiers

VIAF: 158246641
Wikidata: Q4678116
Library of congress: n 50062817
HAI10: 000688794
Sources of Information
  • Information from 678 converted Dec. 19, 2014(formed in 1942)
  • Its How you can help ... 1946.
  • Its Report to the American people (1989). Report to the American people, 88-89:p. 41 (AD Council, Advertising Council, Inc.)
  • NUCMC data from Univ. of Ill. at Urbana-Champaign Archives for Its Minutes, 1942-1968(Advertising Council)
  • NUC pre-56(under heading Advertising Council: records from ca. 1943-1945 show usage War Advertising Council)

Wikipedia description:

The Advertising Council, commonly known as Ad Council, is an American nonprofit organization that produces, distributes, and promotes public service announcements or PSAs on behalf of various sponsors, including nonprofit organizations, non-governmental organizations and agencies of the United States government. The Ad Council distributes the advertisements to a network of 33,000 media outlets—including broadcast, print, outdoor (e.g., billboards, bus stops), and Internet—which run the ads in donated time and space. Media outlets donate approximately $1.8 billion to Ad Council campaigns annually. If paid for, this amount would make the Ad Council one of the largest advertisers in the country. Beyond advertisements across broadcast, print, and digital, campaign efforts often include virtual panels, coalition building, and information sharing. In 2020, the Ad Council coordinated with partners across government, media, tech, and health to disseminate messaging about social distancing, wearing masks, and staying home when possible to slow the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic. In February 2021, the Ad Council announced the COVID-19 Vaccine Education initiative in partnership with COVID Collaborative and more than 300 partners. Historians have criticized the Ad Council as "little more than a domestic propaganda arm of the federal government."

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