To prove it, we have gathered the 10 most expensive TV ads of all time. They include entries from some of the most well-known brands in the world to others that will have you Googling what they do or who they even are. So grab a flash player and get set to spend 30 seconds evaluating what it took others months and millions to create.

1. Guinness Domino
   If you had $20 million, would you buy million dollar mansions, Jay Leno’s car collection, or some other outlandish item? If you are the maker of the Guinness Beer, it would be this commercial. Although it is quite the impressive feat of domino engineering, there are no big stars or fancy effects to justify the price tag. In fact, the blogger at Luxuo writes that the many subjects of the film had no idea they were on camera.
2. Most Expensive Political Ad
   Think Obama is the most spending president in history? This may be true budget wise, but President George W. Bush holds the record for the most expensive political television ad. In 2004, the ad was inspired by then President Bush and a photo of a girl who lost her mother on 9/11. It doesn’t sound expensive, but running the ad for weeks on cable stations in nine key states cost the Progress for America Voter Fund an estimated $14.2 million.
3. Aviva Insurance
   Never heard of it? Then their $13.4 million ad didn’t work. The huge price came with all the stars that were featured in the 2009 ad, including Bruce Willis Elle Macpherson, Alice Cooper, and Ringo Starr. Along with Aviva Insurance, they all changed their names and found success, which is the driving force behind the ad. You can view it with a visit here.
4. Chrysler Comeback
   If you have $9 million to spend on a single ad, are you really in need of a comeback? That was the question people were asking of Detroit centered and bailout receiving Chrysler, which used rapper Eminem to help promote the vehicle. Considering that it placed 44th in favorite TV ads, and way behind the Darth Vader Volkswagen, the outcome didn’t seem worth the price, as with most overly expensive ads.
5. Pepsi
   It might seem that Super Bowl ads get bigger and bigger each year, but the truth is that until the above, the most expensive ad was done by Pepsi during the 2002 Super Bowl. The TV ad was well discussed, featured Britney Spears, and just might have been worth its $7.53 million price tag.
6. Honda
   Constantly praised as one of the most affordable cars in the world, they are the producers of one of the most expensive TV ads of all time. In this amazing ad, all the components of a Honda are used to create a domino effect of everything “just coming together.” The cost for the show-off? Only $6.5 million.
7. Ferrari
   In a saner move, this maker of cars actually makes vehicles that range into the six and even seven figure mark, which can be used to justify an expensive ad. For its anniversary, the makers of Ferrari used both old and new cars, as well as some notable roadways, to create this expensive, yet inspiring commercial. The price tag for the ad was $3.9 million, which is no doubt less than the sticker price of the combined cars.
8. Go Daddy
   An internet company advertising on television? Monster.com proved it can harness the power of television to get people on their computers. GoDaddy hoped to do the same with their $2.4 million commercial during the Super Bowl to direct people to the domain hosting giant. Apryl Duncan of About.com has more on the high cost of ads and loads more on the business.
9. Carlton Beer
   This expensive television commercial was for an Australian beer. It actually makes fun of expensive television ads. However, the cost of the commercial was never shared, but they were reported to sell an extra 36 million beers. If each bottle cost only a dollar, then the ad would have had to cost $36 million to break even.
10. Most Expensive Spot
    And the above is just the cost of making a television ad, not running it. Advertisers have to pay a fee to whichever show they are showing their commercial on. No matter what the cost of making your commercial, the most expensive air time continues to be the Super Bowl. While an ad for the first one cost a mere $40,000, a standard ad for Super Bowl XLII cost $2.7 million.

And with prices rising as well as expectations, the above 10 most expensive TV ads of all time are sure to be just the beginning. However, with the internet providing a newer way to see everything, the future of advertising is also growing at an astronomical speed.

2009

1. Alexander’s Blog: Alexander is a branding geek, scientific researcher, author, blogger and speaker who, for over two decades, has built his expertise on the emotional side of people and brands (January).
2. Fashionably Marketing. Me: Learn how to use social media to better market products, build brand awareness and engage customers in positive ways online (January).
3. Atomic Blog: A planning and strategic consultation company maintains this branding blog (March).
4. David ID: David ID is a complete brand development firm that serves global corporations and promising early stage companies (March).
5. Jeff Bullas: Bullas works with companies and executives to optimize their online personal and company presence and brand with digital marketing and social media through the use of social media channels and other web and mobile technologies (March).
6. This is Brand X: From television to radio, graffiti to fashion, this blog covers all the brands (March).
7. Aviation Branding Weblog: View old and latest pictures, old and new news about new, re-vitalized and existing aircraft exterior paint (livery) and airline logos and designs (April).
8. Listen Logic: Although this branding and marketing blog began in early 2009, it didn’t gather steam until 2010 (April).
9. Mike Urbonas: Mike is into blogging about product marketing, business intelligence/data warehousing, personal branding and more (April).
10. Brandw!se: Brandwise is a brand strategy firm that uses marketing and design to grow businesses (May).
11. The Strategy Guy: Learn how to grow your company quickly without blowing up (June).
12. 7 Summits: Interesting blog posts on results of marketing for profits and nonprofits, brand awareness and more (August).
13. Epic Launch: Kick off your business with this young entrepreneur blog that provides outstanding tips for advancing your entrepreneurial career (August).
14. Thee Blog: This blog is all about design, advertising, packaging and photographic inspiration (August).
15. B2B Marketing: A new look, a new approach, more like branding than marketing…take a look at this blog that focuses on B2B socializing and SEO (September).
16. Footprints: Let Walker Sands lead you into brand awareness, public relations, marketing and design and development for your Web site (September).
17. Brandings Blog: Instead of looking for a brand, pick a brand that already has been created…turning this concept upside down (October).
18. Dave Hendricks Blog: What every marketer needs — a person who is versed in SEO and law (November).
19. New Tribalism Blog: A brand tribe is a group of people who are connected to each other through their shared belief in the culture of the brand of their choice. Learn more (November).
20. Disqus: The Official Blog: Disqus is “all about changing the way people think about discussion on the Web” (December).

2010

21. Brand Management 2011: A student comments on learning about marketing and branding (January).
22. Donor Powerblog: If you’re serious about raising money from donors, you need to get serious about donors. This blog can help that branding (January).
23. Smedio: Smedio is the new media and social web guide for businesses and marketers (January).
24. Sound Branding Blog: Karlheinz Illner is an international brand expert in the field of sound branding and acoustic identity since 2003 (January).
25. Marqui Web Marketing Blog: Includes branding, marketing and trends from around the world (February).
26. Bellamy Studio: This studio focuses on building effective designs around brand values for clients (March).
27. BootB (Unlimited Creativity): The creators at this business provide, on average, 208 solutions for every creative challenge you offer…so your brand may branch out (March).
28. Social Branding Blog: Steve Campbell is well versed in–and passionate about–social media and brand management(March).
29. Umass Dartmouth Center for Marketing Research Blog: The Center for Marketing Research is associated with and maintains a close relationship with the Chambers of Commerce within southeastern Massachusetts (March).
30. Fastgush: Stay on top of brand awareness and social media happenings with this new blog (April).
31. Fresh Element: Learn more about tending topics in interactive marketing, Web development, SEO, marketing, branding and social media (April).
32. Lakeshore Branding: This Chicago digital, SEO and social marketing company offers a blog and lessons in Internet marketing online (April).
33. SEO Marketing Blog: Get your Search Engine Optimization (SEO) on with branding and marketing through this technique (April).
34. DX Blog: The Design Exchange (DX) is Canada’s design center and museum with a mission to promote the value of design (May).
35. Blogging for Branding: Rosetta Thurman claims her success came with using social media to build her personal brand — she left her job and branch out into full-time consulting in January 2010 (July).
36. Building a Brand Online: This blog includes a 12-week course with a bonus week where students could learn, collaborate and share in the best ways to build a brand online (July).
37. Spectrum Signs Blog: Learn how to increase brand awareness through signage (July).
38. Traffic Pulse: Join this group of SEO experts, Web developers, content writers and market researchers to learn more about how to build your brand awareness (July).
39. A brand blog in the making…: This blogger has been working with brands for more than 13 years now and wants to share some thoughts about brand strategy and design (August).
40. Christopher Stutzman’s Blog: Chris has more than 15 years of experience helping companies build brands and consumer relationships to gain a competitive advantage (August).
41. Adgistics: Adgistics is a specialist provider of brand asset management and automation systems to world-class brands (September).
42. Fuel: Fuel Communications offers the latest developments in brand strategy, marketing and public relations, graphic design, Web development, online marketing and print management (October).
43. Brand Periscope: Rick Thompson, president and founder of Brand Periscope, uses this blog to fill the gap between classical marketing and Internet marketing (November).
44. Student Branding Blog: Dan Schawbel, the founder of the Student Branding Blog, is a world renowned personal branding expert, the international bestselling author of Me 2.0, as well as the publisher of the Personal Branding Blog (December).

2011

45. American Express Branding Podcasts: Tyler Brûlé is the editor-in-chief of Monocle magazine, and he hosts this new podcast, OPEN MIC, for business growth (January).
46. Brand Tampa: This blog is geared toward Tampa’s young professional and student demographics (January).
47. Internet Marketing Jam: A new site dedicated to helping you boost your income, sales and profits with content marketing and branding (January).
48. LaunchRock Blog: LaunchRock helps you setup a viral launching soon page in minutes (January).
49. Medical Research Marketing: Branding approaches to medical marketing and patient recruitment (January).
50. The Hired Guns: There’s something to be said about starting over, just like the Hired Guns did this month. Look for information about innovation, leadership, networking, branding and more from this blog (March).

For your iPhone

1. Files: This app lets users create a file tree and carry important documents no matter where you are, and even syncs via wi-fi.

2. WhereTraveller: Updates security wait times at airports, and provides information on your destination such as restaurants, entertainment and shopping, as well as airline and rental car agency phone numbers.
3. Google Reader: Allows users to read subscribed blogs in a neat, fashionable application.
4. OmniFocus: This task management application allows you to create to do lists, as well as sync with documents on your desktop.
5. ExpenseTrkr: Perfect for tracking expenses while you travel, this app even has the ability to document receipts via the phone’s camera function. Great for keeping track of business expenses.

For your iPad/iPhone

6. Keynote: The iWork Keynote app is ideal for on-the-go presentation development. You can also import Microsoft Powerpoint slide decks with ease.

7. Go to Meeting: If your company has a GoToMeeting account, this is an ideal app to help you keep partners and staff in sync while engaging in meetings. You can’t take control of the meeting but the audio feature works great with or without earbuds and the mic. This is the ideal app for multi-casting training content to a group of people with iPads and/or iPhones.
8. Dragon Dictation: There’s only one way to get more done if you need to communicate with lengthy messages or compose marketing prose. In addition to sending lots of staff-related email messages to delegate tasks, the CMO is typically at the center of all corporate messaging. Dictating messages and documents is far more productive than typing and provides a highly productive solution.
9. Instapaper: Instapaper helps you find competitors, partners, and marketing opportunities. Capturing pages and articles is a breeze with InstaPaper which allows you to cache your reading requirements offline.
10. Analytics HD: If your responsibilities include tracking online server activity, this is the ideal app for doing that across many servers and sites. While it provides only a limited view of the total Google Analytics picture, it provides the right views; exceptional trending and stats that are necessary for quick checks and meetings.
11. Box.net: This is an ideal app for curating, organizing, and sharing everything you write or documents that your team produces. This is the most productive method for dealing with papers, reports and other document artifacts that help you do your job. It provides public and secure folders and many social networking features that allow you to push your content out to colleagues, partners, and customers.
12. Hoot Suite for Twitter: HootSuite helps you manage multiple Twitter, Facebook, and other social media accounts in one place. It also provides automated content posting features and persistent search queries to keep tabs on partners and competitors. Because they provide such a robust web version, you can hop to any system (including iPad) and all configurations are live. This system also provides integrated social team management features that allow you to control and commend the social media process from one application. HootSuite is only available for iPad (presently) but that will change soon.
13. Nomina: This app provides an integrated brand research system that can tell you the availability of any trademark or tradename in a variety of contexts. Imagine you have an idea to create a new online marketing initiative called DustyTruck. Nomina will tell you if it’s available across all the popular web domains (.com, .net, etc) as well as instances of it in Google, USPTO, common law libraries, and even uses of it in the App Store.
14. Gist: Gist is a comprehensive contact, company, and social dashboard for all your business relationships. Presently only available as an iPhone app which works fine on iPad, it also includes a Safari-compatible web interface. This tool will make it easy to stay abreast of all your ongoing and past communications with customers, colleagues, and partners.
15. Story Pages HD: Marketing includes the leadership and development of creatives. StoryPages, a story-boarding app, is the best app for drawing, diagramming, and sketching conceptual ideas. But it also provides integrated templates as well as the ability to use any photo or image as a sketch backdrop for more precise outlining.
16. Facebook: If you’re in advertising, you almost certainly use Facebook on a personal or business level. Connect easily via your iPhone or iPad.
17. Linked In: Linked in is one of the most popular social media websites that puts business people in touch with each other. Use it for recruiting, keeping up with other friends in advertising or just seeing what’s going on in the world of work.
18. Twitter: Everybody tweets and you should too. Send out quick messages about your new advertising campaign to all who follow your company.
19. Shovel Pro: Lets you keep up with the most interesting stories on the web each day. Works in conjunction with Digg It.
20. CNN: There are several news organizations that have web apps, but CNN’s has the best user interface. Keep up with the latest news quickly and easily.

1. Search Engine Land:  It is a very popular blog covering news and information site that covers issues and topic like search engine marketing, searching issues and the search engine industry. This blog is published by Danny Sullivan that is into search for previous eleven years.
2. SEO Book: This blog is run and operated by Aaron Wall, who through his this blog provides marketing tips, search analysis, online business tips and general commentary over evolution of the web. This blog was started as back as in 2003 and is yet considered as oldest operating SEO blog. This blog help in promoting marketing as an ever popular tool for search engines.
3. SEOMOZ: This blog is published by the company that provides companies and individuals around the Globe with online tools and tutorials to help them about their internet marketing and search engine optimization needs. it works with objective to provide software and internet education to businesses, individuals, non profits and government organizations so they make best use out of internet.
4. Mattcutts Blog: This blog is run by as clear itself by name is Matt cuts who joined Google as a software engineer in January 2000 and presently is head of the Google’s Webspam team. At this blog he explores about various trends and reasoning as centered on Mattcutts blog.
5. Search Engine Journal: Running from 2003, Search Engine Journal is a six years old publication of search and social media that tries to promote community approach to the reporting of search engine news & the sharing of Search Engine Marketing knowledge and tactics. It is run by Loren Baker, who is Editor in chief of this general and is into field of Search Engine Marketing since 1998 ensued background in paid search and search engine optimization.
6. Toprankblog: Since December 2003 TopRank is working as a top class online marketing blog that provides insight, resources and commentary on a wide range of digital marketing and public relations topics like search engine marketing and optimization, social media marketing, business blogging and marketing and online public relations.
7. Pronetadvertising: This blog is run by Neil Patel, who started his career in computers as an application developer and at the same time continued expanding his knowledge and learning in areas like networking, software and internet.  And he tried to advertise and share his knowledge through his blog pronetadvertising.

• Advertising is generally looked our by advertising agencies that vary in size and scope. Some big companies have their own advertising departments to look into specialized areas like market research, film and video production.
• Advertising generally have three basic purposes sales promotion, public relations and education. In sales promotion it persuades people to purchase a specific product or commodity. Public relation tends to create positive image for the company. And by education an advertiser influence social attitude on issues and topics of general concern and tell people about welfare schemes through public interests campaigns started by government or private organizations.
• Basic eligibility for Advertising is having postgraduate courses so a person should be graduate with at least with minimum of 50 percent numbers. And admission to most of these courses occurs on the basis of entrance examination or an interview. Few colleges also offer BA courses in advertising.
• Though advertising is a very honest profession yet it is considered by people by large as dishonorable profession due to the tendency or nature of selling something is involved with it. So people think that an advertiser tries to deceive other and sometime it is not considered as an honorable profession.
• Another interesting convention related to advertising career that it is filled with money and everyone into it can make six figure salaries. It is not true as many a number of people who entered into the career of advertising started from the very bottom and entered for free with minimum wages and simultaneously grow themselves towards the top of their career.
• Another misconception related to career of advertising is that it is indeed very hard to make a start in career of advertising. However, this doesn’t mean that you can not make into the advertising. Rather you would not get that prestigious assignment as on your first project. But if you are interested in making career for yourself than you should keep on making effort towards it.
• And in the last do not go for those blossoming and always smiling characters from advertising world you see in a movie. Indeed, it is a field full of glamour and sometimes it becomes really a fun to create an advertising campaign. But anyhow you would have to work very hard to bring an ad campaign to final broadcast and publication.

When you enroll for your online Masters in Advertising, there are various courses that you will have to take including consumer behavior, communication methods and technology, marketing research, principles and practices of public relations, advertising and society, and advertising and copywriting. It also gives you a chance to improve your communication skills and become creative.

It is possible to complete your online master in about 18 months but it generally takes about two years for most students.  If you do not have a background in advertising coursework, you will be required to take some articulation courses prior to enrolling for the program. Some of the courses that you will be required to take include introduction to marketing and advertising.

You will have to get at least 33 credit hours and also do a thesis to graduate. If you are specializing in a specific area of advertising, the department will decide whether you should do a thesis or terminal project. You have to choose a committee to supervise your thesis or terminal project and evaluate it once it is complete. An internship program is also offered as part of the masters in advertising electives to give you the experience you need to join the best firms in the advertising industry.

There are two stages in this graduate degree. During stage one you will learn about the techniques that are required in advertising including product research, copywriting and account management planning. In the second stage, you will be required to identify an area in advertising that you want to specialize in.