This is Celia Hirschman for On The Beat. Back in the 60's and 70's, if a band sold their hit single to an ad agency, for the purpose of selling a car on TV, we'd laugh and say their careers were over.

The holidays and cars share a special place in advertising history. From snowy drives through twinkling neighborhoods to families embarking on seasonal road trips, some commercials became cultural ...

Tesla built one of the world’s most recognizable car brands while largely skipping the most traditional tool in the automaker playbook: the big-budget television spot. Instead of crowding the airwaves ...

When we look back on the decades of the past, they seem to each have a flavor all their own. There's the retro-future vibes of the 1950s and the hippie aesthetic of the '60s. The '70s had disco, the ...

But what’s it like to live with? The Super Bowl has for 60 years been must-see TV in America. Of the country’s 30 most watched TV broadcasts, 27 have been Super Bowl games, with only the Apollo 11 ...