advertising agency

noun

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

advertising agency

noun

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

Word History and Origins

Origin of advertising agency¹

An Americanism dating back to 1840–50

Example Sentences

Now she has an advertising agency to her name, too.

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Mr Robinson, who runs Hello Starling, a Cardiff-based advertising agency, said vacancies at his business were attracting applications that were riddled with AI-generated sentences.

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Somewhat out of the blue, producer Lee Mendelson got a call from advertising agency McCann-Erickson: Coca-Cola wanted to sponsor an animated Christmas special.

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Ms. Wells Lawrence was the first woman to own and run a major national advertising agency — Wells Rich Greene — and the first female chief executive of a company listed on the New York Stock Exchange.

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It then "took off in other ways", and he was contacted by an advertising agency, which said the song was liked by "someone important".

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