https://www.learnancientrome.com/were-there-ads-in-ancient-rome/ https://www.learnancientrome.com/were-there-ads-in-ancient-r... > In 3000 BC, a slaveholder in

https://www.learnancientrome.com/were-there-ads-in-ancient-rome/ https://www.learnancientrome.com/were-there-ads-in-ancient-r... > In 3000 BC, a slaveholder in Thebes, Egypt created the first-ever written ad. [..] The slaveholder was trying to find a runaway slave while also promoting their weaving shop. The more things change, the more they stay the same. https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2015/aug/11/can-cities-kick-ads-ban-urban-billboards https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2015/aug/11/can-cities-ki... > Even David Ogilvy, widely considered the father of modern advertising, expressed his disdain for the medium back in 1963. “Man is at his vilest when he erects a billboard,” Ogilvy wrote. “When I retire from Madison Avenue, I am going to start a secret society of masked vigilantes who will travel around the world on silent motor bicycles, chopping down posters at the dark of the moon.”