Advertising is a form of communication intended to persuade an audience (viewers, readers or listeners) to purchase or take some action upon products, ideals, or services. It includes the name of a product or service and how that product or service could benefit the consumer, to persuade a target market to purchase or to consume that particular brand. These brands are usually paid for or identified through sponsors and viewed via various media. Advertising can also serve to communicate an idea to a mass amount of people in an attempt to convince them to take a certain action, such as encouraging 'environmentally friendly' behaviors, and even unhealthy behaviors through food consumption, video game and television viewing promotion, and a "lazy man" routine through a loss of exercise . Modern advertising developed with the rise of mass production in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Mass media can be defined as any media meant to reach a mass amount of people. Several types of mass media are television, internet, radio, news programs, and published pictures and articles.

Commercial advertisers often seek to generate increased consumption of their products or services through branding, which involves the repetition of an image or product name in an effort to associate related qualities with the brand in the minds of consumers. Different types of media can be used to deliver these messages, including traditional media such as newspapers, magazines, television, radio, outdoor or direct mail; or new media such as websites and text messages. Advertising may be placed by an advertising agency on behalf of a company or other organization.

Non-commercial advertisers that spend money to advertise items other than a consumer product or service include political parties, interest groups, religious organizations and governmental agencies. Nonprofit organizations may rely on free modes of persuasion, such as a public service announcement.

In 2007, spending on advertising was estimated at more than $150 billion in the United States and $385 billion worldwide.

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Sat Jul 31 02:18:06 2010

What types of advertising campaigns are most effective on you personally?
Q. We are all influenced by the media and advertising. What types of advertising campaigns are most effective on you personally? Cite specific examples. What rhetorical devices do they use, and why do you think they are so effective?
Asked by comeandgetit4951 - Sun Mar 25 19:18:59 2007 - - 3 Answers - 0 Comments

A. I especially like advertising that offers me something. Many TV, radio, magazine and newspaper ads that are out there are just yapping on about how their product is great. But the ads that offer me a discount or a deal are most effective for me. For example, coupons are a great way to reach me with your advertisement. As a matter of fact, I would say that the most effective advertising to reach me would be those coupons on the back of the register tapes at my local grocery store. Those coupons are like free money and they are for local businesses that I would actually go to. I've used quite a bit of those coupons before. I've actually gone to a store before and bought something I didn't want because I knew a local hair place had a $5 off… [cont.]
Answered by The ADvisor - Mon Mar 26 16:22:57 2007

How important is advertising on a small busiess?
Q. Small business finds it pointless to spend money on proper advertising. Even if they spend more but they will get it back in revenue.
Asked by jill k - Mon Jan 21 18:22:10 2008 - - 5 Answers - 0 Comments

A. advertising is important, if you want a good income and stuff
Answered by king-of-joolol - Mon Jan 21 18:29:20 2008

How much does your business rely on advertising?
Q. I just started a business which is not doing well. I have not done a lot to advertise as it is expensive. How much does a new business need to rely on advertising?
Asked by spoofkill1 - Sat May 10 10:00:14 2008 - - 5 Answers - 0 Comments

A. You can have the best product or greatest service in the world, but if nobody knows it's there, you're going broke for a living. Marketing and promotion are critical to any business success and growth. Try this: Create a billboard web site - a website that describes your services and products and allows buyers to buy on line. If you're only after local business, Google offers a lot of local search options. Just add your address to the keywords. You can build a good-looking website using templates. Just add copy. Add a free checkout like osCommerce, open a Paypal account and start hyping the website through traditional marketing outlets. For example, use the classifieds in the local newspaper with nothing but your URL. It piques… [cont.]
Answered by editor@webwordslinger.com - Sat May 10 11:22:28 2008

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Advertising is paid communication through a non-personal medium in which the sponsor is identified and the message is controlled. For a list of phrases used in the promotion of actual products, see Advertising slogans.

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  • You can tell the ideals of a nation by its advertisements.
    • Norman Douglas, South Wind, 1917
  • Are you sensitive? Are you easily hurt? Do you take adverse criticism to heart? Do you sometimes feel that life is passing you by? That the other man gets more out of life than you do? You do? Good. Well, keep it up. That's why we in advertising make so much money... LEGAL. DECENT. HONEST. TRUTHFUL... Are you those things too? Oh goody, better and better! Yum, yum, yum.
    • Not the Nine O'clock News, "NOT! Magazine", 1980
  • Living in age of advertisement, we are perpetually disillusioned. The perfect life is spread before us every day, but it changes and withers at a touch.
    • J. B. Priestley, "The Disillusioned", 1929; in The Balconinny, and Other Essays, 1969, p. 30.
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