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Promote vs Advergame - What's the difference?

promote | advergame |

As a verb promote

is to raise (someone) to a more important, responsible, or remunerative job or rank.

As a noun advergame is

(informal) a computer game published by an advertiser in order to promote a product or service.

promote

English

Verb

(promot)
  • To raise (someone) to a more important, responsible, or remunerative job or rank.
  • He promoted his clerk to office manager.
    Having crossed the chessboard, his pawn was promoted to a queen.
  • To advocate or urge on behalf of (something or someone); to attempt to popularize or sell by means of advertising or publicity.
  • They promoted the abolition of daylight saving time.
    They promoted the new film with giant billboards.
  • To encourage, urge or incite
  • {{quote-Fanny Hill, part=5 , so that finding myself on the point of going, and loath to leave the tender partner of my joys behind me, I employed all the forwarding motions and arts my experience suggested to me, to promote his keeping me company to our journey's end}}
  • To elevate to the above league.
  • At the end of the season, three teams are promoted to the Premier League.
  • (label) To increase the activity of a catalyst by changing its surface structure
  • (label) To exchange a pawn for a queen or other piece when it reaches the 8th rank
  • Antonyms

    * (raise rank) demote * (advocate or urge on behalf of) denigrate, oppose

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    advergame

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (informal) A computer game published by an advertiser in order to promote a product or service.
  • * {{quote-news, year=2007, date=January 24, author=Louise Story, title=More Marketers Are Grabbing the Attention of Players During Online Games, work=New York Times citation
  • , passage=Some advertisers have taken casual gaming a step further, creating their own casual games — sometimes called advergames — and posting them on their Web sites. }}