Classification of advertising in print media

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Galina G. Shchepilova

Associate Professor at the Chair of Media Theory and Economics, Faculty of Journalism, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia

e-mail: shgg@yandex.ru

Section: Media Economics

Attempts of classification of advertising in print -media were undertaken repeatedly, but till now is not developed a uniform criteria. In this article the author offers the structural approach to advertising classification in newspapers and magazines. These are advertising kinds, advertising genres and also the technical characteristics connected with a place of placing of advertising in number. The most widespread genre — an advertising collage — is discussed in details.

Keywords: advertising kinds, advertising genres, an advertising collage, advertising classification