adman
noun
ad·man ˈad-ˌman 
: a person who writes, solicits, or places advertisements
Example Sentences
Recent Examples on the Web No publication flattered this back-to-the-land shift more than the Whole Earth Catalog, started in 1968 with the decisive assistance of an inheritance from Brand’s adman father. 
Benjamin Kunkel, The New Republic, 14 June 2022 D’Amico, 31, is a Chicago adman and longtime soccer enthusiast. Martin Fritz Huber, Outside Online, 1 July 2014 Leopold Bloom, an adman, is avoiding his unfaithful wife and mourning a long-dead infant son. Anne Enright, The New York Review of Books, 5 Jan. 2022 Running United Fruit’s publicity department, in New York, was a legendary adman who claimed to have a list of twenty-five thousand journalists, editors, and public figures at his beck and call. Jonathan Blitzer, The New Yorker, 24 Nov. 2021 The event was publicized by San Francisco’s radical adman, Jerry Mander, and managed by a young promoter named Bill Graham, who had made his name holding two benefits for the San Francisco Mime Troupe and agreed to do the Trips Festival for free. Gary Kamiya, San Francisco Chronicle, 29 Oct. 2021 An adman and an adwoman fight over a dummy account and wind up in bed together. Ed Stockly, Los Angeles Times, 9 Apr. 2021 An adman and an adwoman fight over a dummy account and wind up in bed together. Ed Stockly, Los Angeles Times, 9 Apr. 2021 An adman and an adwoman fight over a dummy account and wind up in bed together. Ed Stockly, Los Angeles Times, 9 Apr. 2021 See More
Benjamin Kunkel, The New Republic, 14 June 2022 D’Amico, 31, is a Chicago adman and longtime soccer enthusiast. Martin Fritz Huber, Outside Online, 1 July 2014 Leopold Bloom, an adman, is avoiding his unfaithful wife and mourning a long-dead infant son. Anne Enright, The New York Review of Books, 5 Jan. 2022 Running United Fruit’s publicity department, in New York, was a legendary adman who claimed to have a list of twenty-five thousand journalists, editors, and public figures at his beck and call. Jonathan Blitzer, The New Yorker, 24 Nov. 2021 The event was publicized by San Francisco’s radical adman, Jerry Mander, and managed by a young promoter named Bill Graham, who had made his name holding two benefits for the San Francisco Mime Troupe and agreed to do the Trips Festival for free. Gary Kamiya, San Francisco Chronicle, 29 Oct. 2021 An adman and an adwoman fight over a dummy account and wind up in bed together. Ed Stockly, Los Angeles Times, 9 Apr. 2021 An adman and an adwoman fight over a dummy account and wind up in bed together. Ed Stockly, Los Angeles Times, 9 Apr. 2021 An adman and an adwoman fight over a dummy account and wind up in bed together. Ed Stockly, Los Angeles Times, 9 Apr. 2021 See More Word History
Etymology
ad entry 1 + man entry 1
First Known Use
1894, in the meaning defined above