advertising agency

American  

noun

• advertising agencies
  plural

1. an agency employed by advertisers to plan, design, place, and supervise their advertisements or advertising campaigns.

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advertising agency British  

noun

1. an organization that creates advertising material, contracts for publication space, and sometimes undertakes market research on behalf of its clients

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• advertising agencies
  plural

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Etymology

Origin of advertising agency

An Americanism dating back to 1840–50

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Example Sentences

See Examples For:

advertising agency

Anthropic traced a fake news operation to LKM Company, a French advertising agency.

From Barron's ● Sep. 11, 2026

At 58, Susan Lee Colby founded Grace Creative LA, an advertising agency focused on the 50-and-older market, because, she said, she had “aged out” of traditional advertising agencies.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 1, 2026

John Coleman, a millionaire entrepreneur who founded an advertising agency, wrote an op-ed in the Portland Press Herald this week praising the tax.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 19, 2026

Nicknamed the “Binoculars Building” and once the headquarters for advertising agency Chiat/Day, this building faces Main Street in Venice.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 5, 2025

The advertising agency and the tobacco company were delighted by the unpaid publicity and were only too happy to confess to the error in the coda, “What do you want, good grammar or good taste?”

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker

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