Creative Advertisement

In 2010, spending on advertising was estimated at more than $300 billion in the United States and $500 billion worldwide.
Internationally, the largest ("big four") advertising conglomerates are Interpublic, Omnicom, Publicis, and WPP. Popular definitions of the term Advertisement-- 1.The non-personal communication of information usually paid for & usually persuasive in nature, about products (goods & services) or ideas by identified sponsor through varioous media.(Arenes (1996) 2.Any paid form of non-personal communication about an organisation, product ,service, or idea from an identified sponsor.( Blech & Blech (1998) 3.Paid non -personal communication from an identified sponsor using mass media to persuade influence an audience. (Wells , burnett, & Moriaty (1998) 4. The element of the marketing communication mix that is non personal paid for an identified sponsor, & disseminated through mass channels of communication to promote the adoption of oods, services, person or ideas.( bearden, Ingram, & Laforge (1998) 5.An informative or persuasive message carried by a non personal medium & paid for by an identified sponsor whose organisation or product is identified in some way. ( Zikmund & d'amico (1999) 6. Impersonal , one way communication about a product or organisation that is paid by marketer. (Lamb, Hair & Mc. Daniel, 2000)