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What is the difference between advertising and advertisement?

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Advertisement is a related term of advertising.



As nouns the difference between advertising and advertisement

is that advertising is communication whose purpose is to influence potential customers about products and services while advertisement is a commercial solicitation designed to sell some commodity, service or similar.

As a verb advertising

is present participle of lang=en.

advertising

English

Verb

(head)
  • Noun

    (wikipedia advertising)
  • Communication whose purpose is to influence potential customers about products and services.
  • * Sir Walter Besant
  • Advertisings do not by themselves cause a book to 'go'. The circulating libraries are far more useful than any advertising columns.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-21, author=(Oliver Burkeman)
  • , volume=189, issue=2, page=48, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= The tao of tech , passage=The dirty secret of the internet is that all this distraction and interruption is immensely profitable. Web companies like to boast about

    Derived terms

    * two-price advertising

    advertisement

    English

    Alternative forms

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    Noun

    (wikipedia advertisement) (en noun)
  • (marketing) A commercial solicitation designed to sell some commodity, service or similar.
  • Companies try to sell their products using advertisements in form of placards, television spots and print publications.
  • A public notice.
  • The city council placed an advertisement in the local newspaper to inform its residents of the forthcoming roadworks.
  • A recommendation of a particular product, service or person.
  • The people gave a good advertisement for Wiktionary.

    Synonyms

    * (commercial solicitation) ad, advert * (public notice)

    Derived terms

    (terms derived from advertisement) * ad * advert * advertorial * classified advertisement * pop-up advertisement

    Hyponyms

    * commercial * infomercial