Updated: 10/11/2017 by Computer Hope

Advertise may refer to any of the following:

advertise1. When referring to the Internet, advertise is a term used to describe text or images placed on a web page that promote another company's product or service. A web page advertisement ad is almost always a banner or button located on the top, bottom, or sides of a web page. Advertising helps allow online services remain free since the costs involved in creating a website can be handled with the money generated from the advertising.

Ad or Ads

An ad is each advertisement that is visible on the web page. For example, at the top of this page is an example of an ad. The most common ad is the banner ad.

Ad rotation

Because many sites or advertising campaigns have several hundred or thousand banners, an ad rotation is an ad rotated through all of the website pages.

Ad network

A company responsible for handling a companies advertising. For example, Google AdSense handles advertising for web publishers and AdWords handles advertising for those looking to advertise on Google and sites with AdSense.

2. An AD is also an acronym sometimes used to describe Active Directory.

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