Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The activity of attracting public attention to a product or business, as by paid announcements in the print, broadcast, or electronic media.
- n. The business of designing and writing advertisements.
- n. Advertisements considered as a group: This paper takes no advertising.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Notification; information.
- n. The act or practice of bringing anything, as one's wants or one's business, into public notice, as by paid announcements in periodicals, or by handbills, placards, etc.: as, to secure customers by advertising. Often used attributively: as, an advertising agent; an advertising scheme; an advertising medium.
- Attentive; adverting; giving attention.
- Giving public notice; publishing advertisements: as, the advertising public.
Wiktionary
- v. present participle of advertise.
- n. communication whose purpose is to influence potential customers about products and services
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. a communication publicly promoting some product or service.
- n. the business of advertising; the activity engaged in by professional publicists for pay.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a public promotion of some product or service
- n. the business of drawing public attention to goods and services
Examples
“Why would you want to internet marketing advertising your business hare at internet marketing advertising\?”
“In other states, certain advertising is prohibited.”
An Interview with Barbara D'Amato about Death of a Thousand Cuts
“They looked at the district of one member, who had expected an easy race but was now besieged by more than $1 million in advertising from the American Action Network, a Republican third-party group funded by secret money.”
The Washington Post: Maryland's Chris Van Hollen works to keep the House in Democrats' hands
“The theory of subliminal messages in advertising is that they can be used to manipulate consumer behavior.”
“Questionable gender politics in advertising is nothing new, but Vanessa at Feministing highlights a truly absurd example”
“My main advertising is through local organizations and getting in front of people to explain what I do.”
“The old saying in advertising is that half of the money you spend is wasted, but you don't know which half," said Tracey.”
“The message in advertising is irrelevant, new research shows”
“News that micro parcel advertising and the term advertising needs to be taken with a pinch of salt, has been drastically reduced is good news to most.”
“But advertisers are evolving in their use of the online medium by going beyond banner and keyword advertising to creating campaigns that leverage social networks and connectivity, while the use of the mobile phone for advertising is still very rudimentary (mostly used for text-based promotional offers).”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘advertising’.
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EN - pseudo-English words
English words used by foreigners in a different sense than they would be used by native speakers + madeupical "English" words that sound English but are not recognized as such by native speakers of...
abseiling, advertising, agroboy, airco, air-condition, relooker, apart, autogrill, autostop, babykiller, baby-foot, babylift and 263 more...
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Internet Marketing
Internet Marketing terminology.
conversion, lead, subscriber, email list, list building, affiliate, adsense, website flipping, domain, search engine opt..., blackhat, whitehat and 39 more...
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National Library Agenda Summit
nla2006, summit, agenda, library, ala, diversity, education, learning, continuous, scan, environmental, plan and 646 more...
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ttobba's Words
graph, amore, labrador, sun, boreal, norsk, coffee, cafe, pekin, peking, train, rail and 97 more...
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Basic English Vocabulary
Very basic words for ESL students.
contemplate, container, consumer, consultant, consensus, conscious, conscience, connection, confusion, confront, conflict, confident and 4334 more...
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Probe~ation
An obnoxious and ridiculous madlib list where verbish '-ing' words fill in the blank wherein the blank is a call for a beating.
For example:
"You're ________in' for a brus...searching, looking, hunting, seeking, questing, exploring, asking, inquiring, snooping, poking, probing, scouting and 262 more...
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Oxford 3000
Oxford 3000 is a list of the most common 3000 words in the English language publishe by OUP.
The keywords of the Oxford 3000 have been carefully selected by a group of language experts and ex...a, an, abandon, abandoned, ability, able, unable, about, above, abroad, absence, absent, absolute and 65 more...
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NSLS Library 2.0 conference
search, google, advertising, perception, boring, civilian, bun, hysterical, ignored, indifference, love, evil and 69 more...
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Meta
Because in this crazy place, technical feedback on site bugs goes on the page for the word 'bugs'. See also Meta Squared, plethora's list of meta lists.
bugs, features, mobile, wordie, wordnet, madeupical, tagging, merch, weirdnet, tag, meta, search and 83 more...
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caff's Words
advertising, cooking, crafts, sexily, stupendous, dancer, coffee, cheese, banana, joy
Tweets
Looking for tweets for advertising.
chained_bear Moved discussion from barbecue: I've never seen a popup ad on Wordie. I use lots of tabs and windows for Wordie, esp. when I'm entering lots of new stuff, but nary a popup.
I noticed today that Time magazine's website can bite me, with its stupid popups for friggin' screensavers and crap.... Jun 11, 2009
vanishedone Just idly wondering: does anyone remember exactly what the banner text was for advertising on Tuesdays, before every day became Tuesday? It was something like: It's Tuesday, and we all know what that means: advertisements! Huzzah! Google's giant mechanical brain has decided that you, the consumer, might be interested in these fine products: Feb 8, 2009
vanishedone Google seems to be going back to first principles in its efforts to entice Wordies: just now I saw an advert on a couple of pages which turned out to be for Make International Ltd.'s designer homeware, but which apart from the company's domain name just has a link reading 'a' and the descriptive text 'a a'. Jan 14, 2009
plethora The most amusing ad I've seen on Wordie is one for weight loss over on hummus. Sep 7, 2008
vanishedone The image ads. seem to be very seldom relevant compared to the textual ones, though. The most word-related one I've seen recently was the one about the name of my perfect lover: it's conceivable that e.g. Google spotted the -phile in logophile brussels sprouts appreciation group and associated it with lovers, but I'm inclined to suspect it's just been slapping the picture around the site out of desperation. At least the textual ads. often try to sell us dictionaries and language courses. Sep 5, 2008
chained_bear I agree they're sometimes distracting. At the same time, I figure Wordie wouldn't be here without them, so I'll put up with them... and even click on them occasionally so John can keep his hard-won Scrooge McDuck status. :) Sep 5, 2008
lampbane I'm not liking the image ads that appear sporadically. They're kind of distracting and a bit confusing.
(See shinigami for an example.) Sep 5, 2008
asativum Amazing what you can buy on eBay these days. Plucked from the Wordie ad feed:
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Dictionary words
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Market with Google
Do You Sell Products Online? Use Google to Boost Your Business!
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Ads by Google Jan 18, 2008
reesetee I'm with palooka, et al. All for a good cause. :-) Nov 20, 2007
vanishedone Views on language-related books might be interesting/useful, but my first thought is that that looks more like the territory of LibraryThing and its ilk. Nov 20, 2007
oroboros I agree with palooka, et al. No es problema, amigo. I wish I had something or other to advertise so I could see it on the site and feel all warm and toasty with such prestigious exposure! Nov 20, 2007
palooka These ads are non-intrusive & are for a good cause! A labor of love is a wonderful & highly worthwhile motivation. However, it can quickly turn into a burden when life starts throwing a few heavy duty financial challenges your way. A little pocket change will help keep you and Wordie buoyant. Nov 20, 2007
mollusque I'd suggest that we do book reviews, and John have links to Amazon. He'd get a percentage of sales for referrals. Perhaps the review could be placed under the title of the book. A review tag could be linked on the home page so that people could easily see a list of books reviewed. The opinions of Wordies on various books would be a lot more useful to me than the standard book review. Nov 20, 2007
seanahan I'm cool with advertising on the site. For those with AdBlock, the ads were blocked by default, so if people want them or don't want them, they can control it themselves. Nov 20, 2007
john Just a heads-up: I'm going to screw around with various advertising formats some more this week, and start running them every day. Nothing is set in stone though (set in stone: does that count as a triad?) so if you object, or have any thoughts on the matter, please share. Nov 18, 2007
reesetee I think we all know that, John. It's fairly evident. :-) Oct 16, 2007
john The ads are pay-per-click. But only click them if they're of interest to you! I don't want to violate the terms of service :-)
If you want to buy an ad, just email me (john_at_wordie.org), and we'll sort it out. I'm completely making this up as I go along, so if there's anything you want to do--buy a word for a day as gift for someone, buy every page on the site so you can make fun of the scientologists, whatever--Wordie is your oyster. And for you, chained_bear, cheap!
The most appreciated thing you can do, though, is share the love: tell your friends, bring more people to the party. I don't want you guys to get the wrong idea, just because I'm playing around with ads and merch. Wordie is and will remain a labor of love. Oct 16, 2007
rocksinmypockets With regard to the Google ads do you only get paid if we click on them? If that is the case, it may pay (more) to look at other options (like the merch and private ads). If you get paid even without clicks, that's great. Oct 16, 2007
chained_bear So if I want to buy an ad... what do I do? Oct 16, 2007
john Actually a few people have written and asked for a Paypal 'donate' button or the like. I appreciate the sentiment, but I don't much like those--too beggy. If anyone really feels a strong need to throw money at Wordie, feel free to buy ads. You can advertise anything you want--yourself, a worthy charity, whatever. Make a political statement, stick a favorite poem up there.
Or not. Don't feel obligated to do a damn thing, fer chrissakes. Wordie is for fun. I'm just screwing around with the dials, seeing what works, what doesn't.
Oh, and kad has been coming up with ideas for merch. Pipe in over there if you've got any. Oct 16, 2007
colleen Doing the backstroke through your piles of gold! Oct 16, 2007
john Very kind of you cb, but that won't be necessary. As you can see from the image below, I will soon be richer than Scrooge McDuck:
Oct 16, 2007
chained_bear Well, I might be opening a can of worms here, John, but I'd be willing to chuck in a few bucks to help out, if that does any good. Oct 16, 2007
john Yeah, I guess the server is in Micronesia or something. I dunno, I just rent space on it.
If I can find some sucker... I mean, some willing customers, I'm going to see if I can sell ads directly. I got a bunch of inquiries about that when Wordie first launched. Then maybe I can pick more interesting/amusing advertisers, and also design the ads a bit, to fit in with the whole Wordie vibe. Dunno about this whole thing. Definitely a work in progress. Oct 16, 2007
colleen Is it a time zone issue, perhaps? Do you have to set the default time zone?
Anyway, it looks all right to me. It's not terribly intrusive and I suspect that with a bit of exposure the eye will just wander right by them. :) Oct 16, 2007
palooka The ads look fine to me. If they help Wordie to survive, all the better!
Oct 16, 2007
john Hm, just looked at wordie for the first time today (I was on the road until now), and it looks like Tuesday came early. I set up the templates to check the day of the week before displaying ads... maybe the calendar on the server is off? I'll check.
Wordie looks weird with ads. All of which are for dictionaries. Shocking. Oct 16, 2007
john Starting tomorrow Wordie is going to have ads on it every Tuesday, to help defray hosting costs. Just wanted to give you guys a heads-up. Details are on Errata. Oct 15, 2007