ETYM French avertisement, formerly also spelled advertissement, a warning, giving notice, from avertir.
1. A public notice, especially a paid notice in some public medium (television, newspaper, etc.); anything that advertises.
2. The act of informing or notifying; notification.
3. Admonition; advice; warning.

The business of drawing public attention to goods and services; SYN. advertizing, publicizing.
Any of various methods used by a company to increase the sales of its products or to promote a brand name.
Advertising can be seen by economists as either beneficial (since it conveys information about a product and so brings the market closer to a state of perfect competition) or as a hindrance to perfect competition, since it attempts to make illusory distinctions (such as greater sex appeal) between essentially similar products. + prikaži više

1. Advertising or public promotion (as of a product or personality); also; relative prominence of a name in such promotion
2. Total amount of business or investments (as of an advertising agency) within a given period