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Answer the question: what is advertising?
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Advertising is... Getting the word out. Perhaps by appropriating someone else's idea and using it to promote your own material: All players who vote for MY completion will recieve a 4x6 inch watercolored portrait* based on one of their player pho...

Advertising is getting you to be so titilated that you'll buy what i'm selling or do what i ask you to. To wit: I am a henna artist/SF0 stuntress. If you pick my praxis, I'll: 1.) Show you more hot pix of my work (Thanks to Scarlett's collaboratio...

Advertising is asking… "Do you have enough?" Over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and ...
Advertising is attempting to persuade someone to buy/use your product/service. Even when it outweighs the gain. [youtube:http://youtube.com/watch?v=uwswkJZEdS4]

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I'm hoping that whoever ends up with the perfect (or, at least, most perfect) answer to this has a tight, koan-like way of enlightening all of us; it looks like that won't be me. With only a dictionary definition in the pool so far, I turned to the ...

the receipt of nothing in exchange for something whose price is your belief that something can be acquired for nothing

Advertising is getting the consumers to know your brand with not just a description, nor name, but ultimately, just one symbol. When a brand is recognized widely by their mascot or icon, they have definitely reached a high level of advertising. Cloth...

Scroll down to the bottom for the witty version To try to sum up what advertising is in one pithy phrase would be folly, but it's safe to say that at its core, advertising encompasses most, if not all efforts to change perception. This definition ma...
Main Entry: ad·ver·tis·ing Function: noun 1 : the action of calling something to the attention of the public especially by paid announcements 2 : ADVERTISEMENTS 3 : the business of preparing advertisements for publication or broadcast