A. Advertising is very old.
B. Examples include the roadside signs that tell travelers that they can buy fresh corn just down the road or that there is a restaurant in the next town.
C. Thus modern advertising was born.
D. Advertising is part of our daily lives.
E. such as helping to prevent forest fires, or to make them want to buy a certain product or service.
F. At first, the chief objective of these agencies was to sell space in the various media, mainly newspapers and magazines.
G. The first printed advertisement in the English language appeared in 1478, more than a century before Shakespeare’s first play was produced.