Commercial advertisements are for profit, which mainly spread advertisements about goods, services, markets and ideas through the media. Commercial advertising is for profit.

No matter what the information content of commodity advertisements is, the ultimate goal is to make profits for advertisers' enterprises or individuals. Commercial advertisements must define "advertisers", and advertisers should bear legal responsibility for the authenticity of the information they send, so that consumers can buy the goods advertised by advertisers with confidence. This is different from news and propaganda. As a part of commodity sales, commercial advertising has its own target market and target object, which is determined by the target market of enterprise goods or services.