> How would you define advertising? Showing unprompted information about a service/product. Not much thought went in to this definition, be charitable. > If t

> How would you define advertising? Showing unprompted information about a service/product. Not much thought went in to this definition, be charitable. > If there were no advertisements how would people know about products? There is word of mouth, reviews, catalogs... > They would have to read discussions and recommendations but how would those discussions and recommendations not be considered advertisements? It is not that complicated. If somebody is getting paid to recommend or participate in a discussion on a certain service/product then that is an advertisement.