Definitions
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- noun A form of
communication that combines the elements ofadvertising andentertainment .
Etymologies
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Examples
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The influential media blog Gawker described it as "advertainment", saying: "Televised entertainment has now completed its long, winding journey into becoming 100% corporate propaganda."
How Undercover Boss raised US unions' ire Andrew Clark in New York 2010
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Keep an eye out for these "advertainment" blocks to hit your local theater in September.
Edison Research 2010
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Kessler called Super Bowl commercials "advertainment" and said they are created less "to sell things" than to be "talked about as fun."
JSOnline.com 2010
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Kessler called Super Bowl commercials "advertainment" and said they are created less "to sell things" than to be "talked about as fun."
JSOnline.com 2010
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Kessler called Super Bowl commercials "advertainment" and said they are created less "to sell things" than to be "talked about as fun."
JSOnline.com 2010
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-- that make the film "advertainment" as well for the techno-coolness of the U.S. military.
Tom Engelhardt: The Long, Slow Death of American Triumphalism 2009
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'advertainment' block to marketers in a private presentation in New York.
Subtraction.com 2010
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It should be one long commercial for the included films while providing a teeny-tiny modicum of advertainment in the process.
Current Movie Reviews, Independent Movies - Film Threat 2008
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You have a very good eye for corporate shenanigans and defo give this lame bullshit advertainment the contempt it deserves. 159th!
Warming the Cockles: Living, Breathing, Shopping BikeSnobNYC 2010
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We're talking about the toy company that is G.I. Joe and, in a synergistic fury, is just now releasing an endless range of toys (G.I. Joe Rise of Cobra Night Raven with Air-Viper v1), action figures, video games, board games, Burger King give-aways, and who knows what else as synergistic accompaniments to this elaborate "advertainment."
Tom Engelhardt: The Long, Slow Death of American Triumphalism 2009
madmouth commented on the word advertainment
"The following is paid advertainment. Apinions expressed are not necessarily those of anyone." (Rabbit and Mouse)
October 19, 2010