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This page is a timeline of online advertising. Major launches, milestones and other major events are included.Part of a series on |
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Contents
Overview
Decade | Description |
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Late 1970s–
1980s |
Much of online advertising during this time period is done through Email, in the form of spamming.[1] Such activities have continued to this day, but became much more common after the ban against the commercial use of the internet was lifted in 1991.[2] |
1990s–
2000s |
With people now having their own websites, banner ads are used as a source of income to pay for these websites and as side money. Companies like Prodigy, Global Network Navigator (GNN), and HotWired are pioneers in the business of online advertising.[3] |
2000s–
2010s |
As more companies capable of providing advertising services emerge, several major successful companies such as Google, Facebook, Yahoo!, Microsoft, and AOL begin to dominate the market.[3] |
Timeline
Year | Month and date | Event Type | Advertisement Type | Description | |||||
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1978 | May 3 | Milestone | Email marketing | The first instance of email spam is sent, the purpose of which is advertising.[1] | |||||
1980 | Launch | N/A | Usenet, a popular discussion forum, launches, and is occasionally overwhelmed with advertising spam posts.[4] | ||||||
1984 | Launch | Banner advertising | Prodigy launches, offering one of the first online advertising services; although these ads are always in the same spot on the screen, and are non-clickable.[4] | ||||||
1991 | March | Milestone | N/A | The ban on commercial use on the NSFNET is lifted by the National Science Foundation (NSF).[2][5] | |||||
1993 | Launch | Banner advertising | GNN, one of the first web publication and web advertising services, is launched by O'Reilly Media.[6] | ||||||
1994 | Milestone | Banner advertising | The first ever clickable advertisement is sold to a Silicon Valley law firm by GNN.[7] | ||||||
1994 | Launch | N/A | HotWired, the first commercial web magazine, launches.[6][4] | ||||||
1994 | October 27 | Milestone | Banner advertising | The first ever banner is sold to AT&T, and is visible on the first issue of HotWired.[8][7][3] | |||||
1995 | May | Acquisition | Banner advertising | GNN is acquired by AOL for $11 million.[9][4] | |||||
1996 | Launch | Association | The Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) launches.[10] | 1996 | Launch | Ad serving | DoubleClick, a prominent online advertising company, launches.[4][11] | ||
1996 | July | Launch, Milestone | Search advertising | Yahoo! launches the very first search ads in their search engine.[12] | |||||
1997 | Invention | Pop-up ads | Pop-up ads are invented by Ethan Zuckerman at Tripod.com, and considered to be a more aggressive and disliked advertising strategy.[13][14] | ||||||
1998 | September 4 | Launch | N/A | Google, an online search engine, launches.[15][16] Google would later come to be the dominant player in search (and hence, search advertising) as well as display advertising. | |||||
1998 | Invention, Launch, Milestone | Ad exchange | OpenX, one of the first ad exchanges, launches as an open source project.[17] | ||||||
1998 | Launch | Search advertising | GoTo (now Yahoo! Search Marketing), a search engine which offers search advertising, launches.[13] | ||||||
1999 | Defunction | N/A | HotWired is shutdown after its domain is re-purposed by Lycos.[18] | ||||||
2000 | October 23 | Launch | Search advertising | Google launches the prominent AdWords service, which allows for advertising based on a user's browsing habits and their search keywords.[19][7] | |||||
2002 | Invention, Milestone | Pop-up ads | With the annoyance brought about by pop-up ads, many prominent web browsers such as Firefox, Netscape, and Opera begin to roll out features to block these ads.[20] | ||||||
2003 | October 7 | Acquisition | Search advertising | Overture (formerly GoTo) is acquired by Yahoo! to enrich their search engine.[21] | |||||
2004 | February | Launch | Social media advertising | Facebook, the most popular social media network, launches.[22] | |||||
2005 | February 14 | Launch | Banner advertising | YouTube, a popular video sharing website, launches.[23] | |||||
2005 | Launch | Demand-side platform | Criteo, one of the first demand-side platforms, launches.[24] | ||||||
2006 | October | Acquisition | N/A | YouTube is acquired by Google for $1.65 billion.[25] | |||||
2006 | Invention, Launch, Milestone | Ad blocking | Adblock, a very prominent ad-blocking add-on for web browsers, is released.[26] | ||||||
2006 | Launch | Content discovery platform | Outbrain, a notable advertising company that powers external recirculation widgets, launches.[27] | ||||||
2006 | August | Launch | Native advertising | YouTube launches its video advertising platform, which has a giant reach today.[28] | |||||
2007 | Launch | Content discovery platform | Taboola, a notable advertising company that powers external recirculation widgets, launches.[29][30] | ||||||
2007 | Launch | Behavioral targeting, Social media advertising | Facebook launches Beacon, an intricate advertising platform that tracks Facebook user's activities on websites outside of Facebook.[31] | ||||||
2007 | April 14 | Acquisition | Ad serving | Google acquires DoubleClick, an advertising platform, for $3.1 billion.[32] | |||||
2007 | May 1 | Launch | Ad serving | The Rubicon Project is founded as an advertising network, by Frank Addante, Craig Roah, Duc Chau and Julie Matter. | |||||
2007 | May 18 | Acquisition | Ad serving | Microsoft acquires AQuantive, an advertising platform, for $6.5 billion.[33][34] | |||||
2007 | Launch | Ad serving/demand-side platform | AppNexus, a company offering online advertising auction technology and advertising campaign management, launches. | ||||||
2007 | Launch | Demand-side platform | MediaMath, a notable demand-side platform, launches.[35] | ||||||
2008 | March | Launch | Demand-side platform | Rocket Fuel Inc., a notable demand-side platform, launches.[36] | |||||
2008 | Launch | Publication | AdExchanger, a company with an eponymous website, that tracks the ad serving and ad exchange space, launches.[37] | ||||||
2008 | Launch | Ad blocking | Rick Petnel creates Easylist, one of the most popular filter lists available for ad-blocking web browser add-ons.[38] The filter list Easylist Privacy is also available, and focuses on the blocking of web elements that may invade a user's privacy. | ||||||
2009 | September 18 | Launch | Ad exchange | Google launches its own ad exchange platform with DoubleClick.[39] | |||||
2010 | February 22 | Launch | Ad serving | Google launches DoubleClick for Publishers (DFP), an advertising software as a service.[40][41] | |||||
2010 | April 12 | Launch | Social media advertising | Twitter launches Promoted Tweets, which allows advertisers to pay for tweets to be shown in a user's feed.[42] | |||||
2010 | October | Launch | End user control standard | The Digital Advertising Alliance (DAA) launches the AdChoices program.[43] | |||||
2012 | January | Launch | Real-time bidding standard | OpenRTB 2.0, a specification for real-time bidding (RTB), is released.[44] | |||||
2013 | April 26 | Acquisition | Ad serving | Facebook acquires Atlas Solutions from Microsoft for $100 million, in order to enrich its already bustling advertising platform.[45][46][34][47] | |||||
2013 | October | Launch | Social media advertising | Instagram, a popular image sharing platform, releases its feature of having sponsored posts appear on user's feeds.[48] | |||||
2014 | January 16 | Open release | Real-time bidding standard | The first commit on the GitHub repository for the OpenRTB standard is recorded.[49] | |||||
2014 | March 24 | Launch | Social media advertising | Pinterest, a creative image sharing platform, launches it Promoted Pins service which allows for additional advertising in a user's feed.[50] | |||||
2014 | June 23 | Launch | Ad blocking | UBlock Origin, a very prominent ad-blocking extension for web browsers, launches.[51] | |||||
2014 | November 14 | Launch* | Ad serving | Facebook re-launches Atlas.[52] | |||||
2015 | November 2 | New feature | Ad serving | Google DFP launches First Look, to allow buyers to access high-value users early on, and allow publishers to bring in high-value inventory at a higher priority than reserved impressions. Commentators view this as Google's answer to header bidding.[53] | |||||
2016 | June 14 | Launch | Social media advertising | Snapchat, a popular messaging app, begins to include advertisements between user's "stories".[54] | |||||
2016 | August | Major event | Ad blocking | Facebook states that they will start blocking the use of ad blocking extensions, specifically Adblock Plus and Adblock. In response to this, these ad-blockers began to block Facebook's blocking in a back-and-forth "war."[55] |
(*) Such launches are not initial launches, but rather re-launches.
See also
References
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- ↑ 2.0 2.1 "NSFNET - The Internet Launching Pad". www.livinginternet.com. Retrieved 2017-01-07.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 "History of Online Display Advertising | Vantage Local". www.vantagelocal.com. Retrieved 2017-01-07.
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- ↑ "Google AdWords Turns 15: A Look Back At The Origins Of A $60 Billion Business". Search Engine Land. 2015-10-28. Retrieved 2017-01-07.
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