Any promotion activity which is associated with a brand, business, service or cause comes under advertising. Considered as one of the most effective tools of marketing, advertising has the potential to enhance sales for the product/service/business. Advertising is different from publicity. Though advertising and publicity, both are assigned to promote a particular brand/business/service, the objectives of an advertising campaign are more far-reaching as compared to a publicity activity. The following points will clear some confusion about the differences between these two tools of marketing- Advertising gets the result for what it pays. It is a more expensive method of brand promotion. In any advertising activity, the advertiser/brand owner spends heavily for what he has to advertise (whether a service, business, product or cause).