advertising

noun

1. (uncountable, usually)Communication whose purpose is to influence potential customers about products and services.

   “Advertisings do not by themselves cause a book to 'go'. The circulating libraries are far more useful than any advertising columns.”

   “[...] the women were presumably going shopping at the department stores growing up along Oxford Street, and the Central's nearness to these stores would make the advertising space in its stations the most expensive on the Underground.”

   “But the real way to build a successful online business is to be better than your rivals at undermining people's control of their own attention. Partly, this is a result of how online advertising has traditionally worked: advertisers pay for clicks, and a click is a click, however it's obtained.”

   “This, in many ways, was the crux of the Generation X conundrum—how (for example) was it possible for a person to reject the illusion of advertising if their only concept of authenticity had been constructed by advertising?”

2. (uncountable, usually)The industry or profession made up of such communications.

verb

1. (form-of, gerund, participle, present)present participle and gerund of advertise