Adweek (aka
Ad Week or
Adweek - Eastern Edition) is a weekly
American advertising trade publication that was first published in 1978.
[2] Adweek covers creativity, client/agency relationships, global advertising, accounts in review, and new campaigns. During this time, it has covered several notable shifts, including
cable television, the shift away from
commission-based agency fees, and the
Internet.
As the second-largest advertising-trade publication,[3] its main competitor is Advertising Age.[4]
Related publications Adweek Magazine's Technology Marketing (Adweek mag tech market, ISSN 1536-2272), and Adweek's Marketing Week (aka Ad Week's Marketing Week, ISSN 0892-8274).[2]
In 1990, Affiliated Publications Inc., the parent of the company that publishes The Boston Globe, agreed to acquire 80 percent of the outstanding common stock of A/S/M Communications Inc., which published Adweek.[5] The magazine stabilized in the 1990s [6]