ad agency
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3.0
- noun
- /æd ˈeɪdʒənsi/
:
agencia de publicidad
- The ad agency created a stunning campaign that attracted many new clients.
- working at an ad agency
My CEO spent his whole career running ad agencies.
- My CEO spent his whole career running ad agencies.
- And so HBO and an ad agency partnered up to actually sell that tequila.
- So I took that film into several ad agencies and was offered a job right away.
- Let's say I own my ad agencies called NP Digital, after me, Neil Patel Digital.
- My path was get a job at an ad agency.
- It's basically just an ad agency that allows influencers to text promotions and exclusive offers to their people who text them.
- I mean, he does not one fucking word talking about his ad agency that mentions creativity.
- And this isn't the words are being used up, it's to do with the fact that people in AD agencies and copyrights are playing it safe increasingly more and more.
- It's a little in a, in a confidential meeting with the ad agency that was supposed to be set me up to protect this very thing.
Examples
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The ad agency works with only one lawyer in a particular television market.
Academic text (2005) -
I'd heard that the great Irish writer William Trevor wrote his first two novels while working at an ad agency.
Academic text (2011) -
Someone sent this to the ad agency last night.
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Yeah, whose ad agency is that?
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So I reached out to everybody that I thought may know you, and I called every ad agency in the city asking for you.
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"Your brother runs an ad agency, no?"
Fiction book (1995) -
Danny Donner is looking for a new ad agency.
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DeLauer Diamonds is looking for a new ad agency.
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Five years, I'm gonna be living in Manhattan, working for a massive ad agency, driving a green Volvo.
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Joe borrowed $10,000 from Mom and Dad and started this clever young ad agency.
Fiction book (1995)
Synonyms
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2.7
A company that makes messages to sell things for other businesses
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Morphology
The meaning 'a company that creates advertisements' is directly and transparently derived from combining 'ad' (advertisement) with 'agency' (a firm offering services). This simple noun+noun composition follows common English and cross‑linguistic patterns (e.g. Spanish 'agencia de publicidad'), so a B1 learner who knows both words will readily infer the MWE meaning.
Etymology
Ad agency combines ad, short for 'advertisement', and agency, meaning 'a company that acts for other people'. It names a business that makes and places ads for clients, so today ad agency means 'a company that creates advertisements and plans advertising'.