@esther I try to keep a distinction between advertising and marketing. Advertising when it's like, "we have this stuff," is an attempt to improve your ability to solve your purchasing problems. Marketing attempts to replace your problem-solving heuristics with emotional responses, and is more accurately construed as an attempt cause brain damage. Oh, and prevent you from solving your purchasing problems.
@http I think this distinction was valid in the early days of advertising. There was a modicum of information, even if it was always biased.
These days it’s hard to distinguish. Would an infomercial be the closest thing?