[5] On September 19, 2019, the website completely moved out of web server host Vultr due to a copyright infringement situation regarding a Bridgestone commercial.

"[8] Adland began as a place to collect plagiarized ads under the title Badland,[9] and has grown into the largest archive of commercials in the world.

[12] Wäppling describes Adland's earliest incarnation as a "proto-blog", inspired by her discussion of advertising on Usenet and on a mailing list she created.

[2] Åsk Wäppling's interest in media and journalism was sparked via an elective in junior high, and she regularly writes for several other advertising trades other than Adland.

[16] During the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, Adland defended—and hosted copies of—ads produced by the Swedish Red Cross Youth, which used the iconography of the games and were designed to draw attention to claims of human rights abuses by the Nepalese military.

Adland's cloud server host Vultr received an email from the lawyer Amy Tindell at Holland & Hart LLP in Boulder, Colorado, United States demanding the removal of a Bridgestone commercial from 2002.

The commercial, which titled "A Dog's Life," was created by a team at BBDO in Bangkok, Thailand and won a silver award in the 2003 Asia Pacific Adfest.

Techdirt called it a "bullshit DMCA notice",[27] whilst Åsk Wäppling says that she is in talks with the "History of Advertising Trust" regarding eventual takeover.

[32] In 2005, Jena McGregor, writing for FastCompany, said that Adland's "group blog approach generates a more diverse array of insight from registered users".