advertising

communication aimed at promoting products, services, or ideas to a target audience through various media channels
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Summary

advertising is a service[1]. advertising ranks in the top 2% of service entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (12,545 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Instance of: economic activity[3], academic discipline[4]
  • Depicts: product[5], service[6]
  • Subclass of: information[7], creative work[8], service[9]
  • Commons category: Advertising[10]
  • Said to be the same as: advertising industry[11], advertising[12]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Advertising[13]
  • Commons gallery: Advertising[14]
  • Topic's main Wikimedia portal: Portal:Advertisement[15]
  • Described by source: Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia[16], Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[17], Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[18], Explanatory Dictionary of the Living Great Russian Language[19], Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[20], 1922 Encyclopædia Britannica[21], The Domestic Encyclopædia; Or, A Dictionary Of Facts, And Useful Knowledge[22], Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947)[23], Basque Literature Terms Dictionary[24]
  • Partially coincident with: graphic design[25]
  • Topic has template: Template:Advert[26]
  • Stack Exchange tag: https://stackoverflow.com/tags/advertising[27]
  • Short name: ad[28], advert[29]
  • Name in kana: こうこく[30]
  • Different from: Reklama[31], advertisement[32], advertising[33]
  • History of topic: history of advertising[34]
  • Hashtag: ad[35], advertisement[36], Werbung[37], Reklame[38]
  • Practiced by: advertising person[39], publicist[40], advertising face[41]

Why It Matters

advertising has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[42] advertising is known by 134 alternative names across languages and contexts.[43]

advertising has been cited as an influence by pop art[44], an art movement[45], founded in 1950[46].

FAQs

Who did advertising influence?

advertising has been cited as an influence by pop art[44].

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . Standard Industrial Classification. wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] ↑ . euskaltzaindia.eus. Retrieved . euskaltzaindia.eus. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  23. [25] ↑ . The RGD Professional Handbook, 3rd edition. wikidata.org.
  24. [26] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  26. [28] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  27. [29] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  28. [30] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  29. [31] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  30. [32] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  31. [33] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  32. [34] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  33. [35] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  34. [36] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  35. [37] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  36. [38] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  37. [39] ↑ . Art & Architecture Thesaurus. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  38. [40] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  39. [41] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [44] ↑ . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [45] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [46] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [42] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [43] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Edit History

Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 3d ago · Hirho · 2026-10-11 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Name in kana → こうこく
    Sitelink count → 156
    Wikipedia languages → ['an', 'ar', 'arz', 'as', 'az', 'azb', 'ba', 'bar', 'be', 'be_x_old', 'bew', 'bg
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Name in kana: こうこく"
  2. 29d ago · Ksn.kenny · 2026-09-14 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    National library of spain spmabn id (bne v1.0) → XX524793
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ National library of spain spmabn id (bne v1.0): XX524793"
  3. 7w ago · Lucidieaux · 2026-08-21 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14692 → All your base are belong to us
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/48942|batch #48942]]: Add OSM wiki item IDs to items with matching OSM keys"
  4. 12w ago · Bencemac · 2026-07-15 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Wikidata description → communication aimed at promoting products, services, or ideas to a target audien
    "/* wbsetqualifier-add:1| */ Determination method or standard: record linkage, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/260985|batch #260985]]"
  5. 14w ago · Susmuffin · 2026-07-04 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Harper's tag → advertising
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Harper's tag: advertising, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/289915655|advertising (#289915655)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/7915|Harper's tag]] "
  6. 16w ago · Circeus · 2026-06-20 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Said to be the same as → advertising industry, advertising
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Said to be the same as: advertising"
  7. 17w ago · Jindřich Rubeš · 2026-06-12 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Svkkl authority id → h0002095-reklama-a-propagace, 0214662-inzerce
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ Svkkl authority id: h0002095-reklama-a-propagace, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/259547|batch #259547]]"
  8. 21w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-19 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Topic has template → Template:Advert
    Aliases → —
    Subclass of → —
    Image last checked license → —
    + 18 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|8 */ Yso id: 1232, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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