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This site lists films shown on Film4 in the previous and forthcoming week. It also gives information on Film4 productions and streams a number of trailers, clips and interviews with directors. The Film4 On Demand section of the site provides a film rental service for online and offline viewing.
An advertising industry portal, boasting links to over 20,000 agencies, and with an impressively orderly and informative database of over 90,000 adverts (magazine, radio, internet, television etc.), searchable by type, agency, production company, brand, country, business sector and credits (including performers). British advertising is best traced through the UK agency portfolio section. For access to streaming or downloading facilities users must take out a subscription for a period from one day to one year.
Formerly known as Xtreme Information, the company claims to be the world’s largest archive of international advertising, containing more than 7 million TV, cinema, radio, press, outdoor and Internet banner ads from more than 55 countries. Users can search for specific advertisements or for trends, and searches can be limited by country, when the advertisement was shown, brand, type of product and style of advertisement. All online access is fee-based, but a large range of compilations are available for sale on DVD.
BEAM.TV is an online library serving the global advertising industry. It stores TV, radio and print commercials as digital files so that commercials can be instantly sent around the world at the touch of a button. QuickTime is required to view the mixture of adverts and pop promos.
An online version of the print and DVD journal running since 1990, it provides access to advertising films subject to subscription.
A highly entertaining website devoted to adverts originally made exclusively for distribution in Japan featuring such stars as Rowan Atkinson, David Beckham, Kevin Costner, Harrison Ford, Madonna, Catherine Zeta Jones and even Wallace and Gromit. The site can be searched alphabetically by personality and QuickTime is required to view the adequately encoded video.
This commercial site provides a useful archive of adverts going back to 1997 which can be searched by brand or company, and includes items produced for TV, radio, cinema and internet as well as print, including direct mail and door drop leaflets. These can be purchased from the site and are made available on DVD, VHS, U-matic, and CD. Every month three adverts are picked as being the best on offer and an archive of these going back to May 2002 is streamed and available to view via Windows Media Player, all with top-notch encoding. The JISC has now entered into an agreement with Creative Club to allow access for its member organisations at special rates.
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