Post #94283
2025-12-26 09:51 UTC
Replies (7)
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@FriendOfDeSoto@startrek.website 2025-12-26 10:13
In my Venn diagram, "advertize" is a smaller circle wholly surrounded by "promote." "Advertize" suggests to me there is a marketing effort with paid ads or something like that behind it. It's simultaneously promoting whatever but promotion can be much broader. Preference doesn't really come into it.
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@digdilem@lemmy.ml 2025-12-26 11:04
Perspective? - I'm promoting something. - You're advertising at me.
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@Kefla@hexbear.net 2025-12-26 11:22
There is a connotational difference, but it's pretty minor. By definition they're synonyms. Advertise has a more organized corporate vibe, like there's an underlying implication that there's money involved. Promote can be more personal.
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@PonyOfWar@pawb.social 2025-12-26 09:56
"Advertise" to me implies a commercial purpose. So for a Lemmy community "promote" sounds more appropriate IMO.
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@LiamTheBox@lemmy.ml 2025-12-26 09:57
Advertise with commercial intent. Promote with personal intent.
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@BluJay320@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2025-12-26 15:20
I’d say it’s advertising if money is involved, promoting if it’s not. If you paid for the promotion to be mentioned or displayed, then it is an advertisement.
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@IWW4@lemmy.zip 2025-12-26 11:46
The two words are spelled differently.