Definify.com

Webster 1828 Edition

ppr.

Informing; giving notice; publishing notice.

a. Furnishing advertisements; as, advertising customers.

In the sense of monitory, or active in giving intelligence, as used by Shakespeare. [Not now used.]

advertising

advertising ‎(countable and uncountable, plural advertisings)

Communication whose purpose is to influence potential customers about products and services.
- Sir Walter Besant
  Advertisings do not by themselves cause a book to 'go'. The circulating libraries are far more useful than any advertising columns.
- 2013 June 21, Oliver Burkeman, “The tao of tech”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 2, page 48:
  The dirty secret of the internet is that all this distraction and interruption is immensely profitable. Web companies like to boast about […] and so on. But the real way to build a successful online business is to be better than your rivals at undermining people's control of their own attention. Partly, this is a result of how online advertising has traditionally worked: advertisers pay for clicks, and a click is a click, however it's obtained.

communication to influence potential customers