adland

noun

ad·​land ˈad-ˌland 

: the advertising industry

Nicholas Negroponte declared the digital revolution over in 1998, but it took adland 12 more years to rework its basic creative, technological, philosophical and procedural assumptions.

—Teressa Iezzi, Advertising Age, 24 May 2010

Word History

Etymology

ad entry 1 + land entry 1

First Known Use

1915, in the meaning defined above

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