Virtually any medium can be used for advertising. Commercial advertising media can include wall paintings, billboards, street furniture components, printed flyers and rack cards, radio, cinema and television adverts, web banners, mobile telephone screens, shopping carts, web popups, skywriting, bus stop benches, human billboards and forehead advertising, magazines, newspapers, town criers, sides of buses, banners attached to or sides of airplanes ("logojets"), in-flight advertisements on seatback tray tables or overhead storage bins, taxicab doors, roof mounts and passenger screens, musical stage shows, subway platforms and trains, elastic bands on disposable diapers, doors of bathroom stalls, stickers on apples in supermarkets,shopping cart handles (grabertising), the opening section of streaming audio and video, posters, and the backs of event tickets and supermarket receipts. Any place an "identified" sponsor pays to deliver their message through a medium is advertising.
New media
Technological development and economic globalization favors the emergence of new and new communication channels and new techniques of commercial messaging.
Television advertising / Music in advertising
The TV commercial is generally considered the most effective mass-market advertising format, as is reflected by the high prices TV networks charge for commercial airtime during popular TV events. The annual Super Bowl football game in the United States is known as the most prominent advertising event on television. The average cost of a single thirty-second TV spot during this game has reached US$3.5 million (as of 2012). Some television commercials feature a song or jingle that listeners soon relate to the product. Virtual advertisements may be inserted into regular television programming through computer graphics. It is typically inserted into otherwise blank backdrops or used to replace local billboards that are not relevant to the remote
References: Sources: Advertising Educational Foundation, archived advertising exhibits and classroom resources Duke University Libraries Digital Collections: * Ad*Access, over 7,000 U.S. and Canadian advertisements, dated 1911-1955, includes World War II propaganda. * Emergence of Advertising in America, 9,000 advertising items and publications dating from 1850 to 1940, illustrating the rise of consumer culture and the birth of a professionalized advertising industry in the United States. * AdViews, vintage television commercials On-Line exhibits at William F. Eisner Museum of Advertising & Design Art & Copy, a 2009 documentary film about the advertising industry. Wikipedia. (2013, June 23). Retrieved from Wikipedia: Free Encyclopedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advertising Wikipedia: Free Encyclopedia. (2013, June 23). Retrieved from Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advertising