User:Avigl/sandbox/Timeline of online advertising

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This page is a timeline of online advertising. Major launches, milestones and other major events are included.

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Overview[edit]

Decade Description
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[edit]

Year Month and date Event Type Advertisement Type Description
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.[8][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.[9][7][3]
1995 May Acquisition Banner advertising GNN is acquired by AOL for $11 million.[10][4]
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, and considered to be a more aggressive and disliked advertising strategy.[13]
1998 September 4 Launch N/A Google, an online search engine, launches.[14][15]
1998 Invention, Launch, Milestone Ad exchange OpenX, one of the first ad exchanges, launches as an open source project.[16]
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.[17]
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.[18][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.[19]
2003 October 7 Acquisition Search advertising Overture (formerly GoTo) is acquired by Yahoo! to enrich their search engine.[20]
2004 February Launch Social media advertising Facebook, the most popular social media network, launches.[21]
2005 February 14 Launch Banner advertising YouTube, a popular video sharing website, launches.[22]
2005 Launch Demand-side platform Criteo, one of the first demand-side platforms, launches.[23]
2006 October Acquisition N/A YouTube is acquired by Google for $1.65 billion.[24]
2006 Invention, Launch, Milestone Ad blocking Adblock, a very prominent ad-blocking add-on for web browsers, is released.[25]
2006 Launch Content discovery platform Outbrain, a notable advertising company that powers external recirculation widgets, launches.[26]
2006 August Launch Native advertising YouTube launches its video advertising platform, which has a giant reach today.[27]
2007 Launch Content discovery platform Taboola, a notable advertising company that powers external recirculation widgets, launches.[28][29]
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.[30]
2007 April 14 Acquisition Ad serving Google acquires DoubleClick, an advertising platform, for $3.1 billion.[31]
2007 May 18 Acquisition Ad serving Microsoft acquires AQuantive, an advertising platform, for $6.5 billion.[32][33]
2007 Launch Demand-side platform MediaMath, a notable demand-side platform, launches.[34]
2008 March Launch Demand-side platform Rocket Fuel Inc., a notable demand-side platform, launches.[35]
2008 Launch Ad blocking Rick Petnel creates Easylist, one of the most popular filter lists available for ad-blocking web browser add-ons.[36] 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.[37]
2010 February 22 Launch Ad serving Google launches DoubleClick for Publishers (DFP), an advertising software as a service.[38]
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.[39]
2013 April 26 Acquisition Ad serving Facebook acquires Atlas Solutions from Microsoft for $100 million, in order to enrich its already bustling advertising platform.[40][41][33][42]
2013 October Launch Social media advertising Instagram, a popular image sharing platform, releases its feature of having sponsored posts appear on user's feeds.[43]
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.[44]
2014 June 23 Launch Ad blocking UBlock Origin, a very prominent ad-blocking extension for web browsers, launches.[45]
2014 November 14 Launch* Ad serving Facebook re-launches Atlas.[46]
2016 June 14 Launch Social media advertising Snapchat, a popular messaging app, begins to include advertisements between user's "stories".[47]
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."[48]

(*) Such launches are not initial launches, but rather re-launches.

See also[edit]

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