commercials
Sponsored broadcast interruptions
Commercials are advertisements broadcast on television or radio, interrupting programming to promote products, services, or causes.
The word usually refers to video spots: We'll be right back after these commercials.
Someone's commercial is their paid promotional appearance: She landed a commercial for a car company.
The singular often means advertising work generally: He does commercial and film.
Paid promotional message
- promotionRank increase or publicity
- campaignOrganized effort toward goal
- sponsorshipFunded endorsement arrangement
- brandingCreating distinctive identity
endorsement · spot · airtime · publicity · infomercial · billboard · teaser · trailer
Easy to remember
- earwormInescapable catchy melody
- melodyPleasing sequence of notes
- tuneMusical sequence of notes
- hookCurved catching device
sing-along · ditty · slogan · memorable · branding · chorus · refrain · soundtrack
Power to affect others
- appealFormal review request
- convinceCause to believe
- consumerismPreoccupation with acquiring goods
- manipulationUnderhanded control of others
propaganda · emotional · testimonial · celebrity · trustworthy · credibility · enticement · desire
advertisement
Paid promotional message
- promotionRank increase or publicity
- campaignOrganized effort toward goal
- sponsorshipFunded endorsement arrangement
branding · endorsement · spot · airtime · publicity · infomercial · billboard · teaser · trailer · slogan
catchy
Easy to remember
hook · sing-along · ditty · slogan · memorable · branding · chorus · refrain · soundtrack · musical
influence
Power to affect others
- appealFormal review request
- convinceCause to believe
- consumerismPreoccupation with acquiring goods
manipulation · propaganda · emotional · testimonial · celebrity · trustworthy · credibility · enticement · desire · aspiration
television
Broadcast viewing device
- radioElectromagnetic wave receiver
- networkInterconnected system
- primetimeTelevision's highest-viewership period
cable · streaming · slot · viewer · ratings · airtime · interrupt · program · sponsor · telecast
- videosvideos, clip, clips, video clip, films
- advertisingad, ads, ad campaign, ad campaigns, advertising campaign
- marketingadvertising, digital marketing, ad campaign, advertisements, ads
- consumerismconsumerism, consumers, consumer, shopping, buying
- mass culturepop culture, popular culture, mass media, mass communication, entertainment
- video contentepisode, YouTube, subtitles, web series, Vimeo
commercialsprogramming
Writing software instructions
content · entertainment · documentaries · the show · shows
commercialspublic service announcements
Free broadcasts promoting civic welfare
editorial · organic content · premium content · binge-watching
- TV commercialsPaid broadcast promotions
- commercial breakBroadcast advertising interval
- television commercialsPaid broadcast promotional segments
- commercial whalingBusiness of catching cetaceans
- commercial jetLarge passenger aircraft
- commercial transportationFee-based movement of cargo
commercial, commercialized, commercialize, commercially, noncommercial, commercialism, commercializing, commercialization, commercializes