Definition of Advertisement

The act of informing or notifying; notification.

Admonition; advice; warning.

A public notice, especially a paid notice in some public print; anything that advertises; as, a newspaper containing many advertisements.

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Advertisement Quotations

The advertisement is the most truthful part of a newspaper.
Thomas Jefferson

As with the Christian religion, the worst advertisement for Socialism is its adherents.
George Orwell

It is a most extraordinary thing, but I never read a patent medicine advertisement without being impelled to the conclusion that I am suffering from the particular disease therein dealt with in its most virulent form.
Jerome K. Jerome

A good advertisement is one which sells the product without drawing attention to itself.
David Ogilvy

Every advertisement should be thought of as a contribution to the complex symbol which is the brand image.
David Ogilvy

Never write an advertisement which you wouldn't want your family to read. You wouldn't tell lies to your own wife. Don't tell them to mine.
David Ogilvy

Promise, large promise, is the soul of an advertisement.
Samuel Johnson

Those who prefer their English sloppy have only themselves to thank if the advertisement writer uses his mastery of the vocabulary and syntax to mislead their weak minds.
Dorothy L. Sayers

It's kind of debatable whether or not the advertisement model is effective. Like whether Nielsen works. For years, Nielsen has been based on sampling. It's not like an electronic bullet that hits your house that tells the people at networks at all times what you're watching.
Kevin Smith

A store's best advertisement is the service its goods render, for upon such service rest the future, the good-will, of an organization.
James Cash Penney

Courteous treatment will make a customer a walking advertisement.
James Cash Penney

I'm not a very good advertisement for the American school system.
David Brinkley

The right name is an advertisement in itself.
Claude C. Hopkins

A lot of the advertisement is done by saying: first of all, have a complex about who you are.
Isabella Rossellini

The art of advertisement, after the American manner, has introduced into all our life such a lavish use of superlatives, that no standard of value whatever is intact.
Wyndham Lewis

Living in an 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 Internet offers an interesting combination of advertising and community by participating in the community you can become an advertisement for yourself.
Walter Jon Williams

The vast majority of Americans agree with us. We're doing everything that we can. We're advertising, right now we're on television with an advertisement running in the Washington area. We've got newspaper ads.
Michael D. Barnes

We used to get published a lot. And there was this vodka advertisement... it embarrassed me a lot afterwards.
Robin Day

The most excellent and divine counsel, the best and most profitable advertisement of all others, but the least practiced, is to study and learn how to know ourselves. This is the foundation of wisdom and the highway to whatever is good.
Pierre Charron

There is no advertisement as powerful as a positive reputation traveling fast.
Brian Koslow

I believe in advertisement and media completely. My art and my personal life are based in it. I think that the art world would probably be a tremendous reservoir for everybody involved in advertising.
Jeff Koons

The more facts you tell, the more you sell. An advertisement's chance for success invariably increases as the number of pertinent merchandise facts included in the advertisement increases.
Charles Edwards

I am always looking for a cool tee shirt; maybe one with a rock band or an old advertisement.
Bridget Hall

An epitaph is a belated advertisement for a line of goods that has been discontinued.
Irvin S. Cobb

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Advertisement Translations

advertisement in Afrikaans is advertensie
advertisement in Danish is reklame, annonce
advertisement in Dutch is bericht, aankondiging, advertentie
advertisement in Finnish is mainos, ilmoitus
advertisement in Norwegian is annonse
advertisement in Spanish is indicacion, anuncio, reclamo
advertisement in Swedish is annons, reklam

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