Dade Media Inc. is a marketing and advertising agency based in Delray Beach, Florida. The collection includes promotional materials; trade literature; outdoor awards publications; slides and photographs of billboards and mall advertisements; audio cassettes; and other materials relating to outdoor advertising. Companies represented include 3M National, AK Media, Atomic Props and Effects, Eller Media Company, Foster and Kleiser, Honda, Institute of Outdoor Advertising (IOA), Metromedia Technologies (MMT), Outdoor Advertising Association of America (OAAA), Outdoor Advertising Magazine, TDI, Titan Outdoor, and Young and Rubicam (Y&R). Acquired as part of the John W. Hartman Center for Sales, Advertising & Marketing History.
The Dade Media records span the years 1970 to 2012 and undated and include printed materials, slides and photographs, and audio cassettes. Printed materials include promotional materials, trade literature, and awards programs related to outdoor advertising. Companies represented in the collection include 3M National, AK Media, Atomic Props and Effects, Eller Media Company, Foster and Kleiser, Honda, Institute of Outdoor Advertising (IOA), Metromedia Technologies (MMT), Outdoor Advertising Association of America (OAAA), Outdoor Advertising Magazine, TDI, Titan Outdoor, and Young and Rubicam (YandR). The collection includes slides and photographs of billboards and mall advertising from the 1970s and 1980s, including several slides of Coca-Cola billboards. Slide topics include airlines, automobiles, beverages, cameras, entertainment, fashion, fast food, food, health, housing, humor, mall advertising, manufacturing, media, montages, people, real estate, signs, spring water, teasers, termites, tobacco, travel, and several slide collections that accompanied presentations.