NACE 73.11: Activities of advertising agencies
NACE Rev. 2.1 class. Replaces NACE Rev. 2 73.11. Closest ISIC Rev. 4: 7310.
NACE Rev. 2.1 class 73.11 is "Activities of advertising agencies". It sits in section N (PROFESSIONAL, SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL ACTIVITIES), then division 73 (Activities of advertising, market research and public relations), then group 73.1 (Advertising). In the previous classification, NACE Rev. 2, the activity was covered by 73.11 (Advertising agencies).
What the class includes
This class includes:
- provision of a full range of advertising services (i.e. through in-house capabilities or subcontracting), including advice, creative services, production of advertising material
- planning and organising advertising and marketing campaigns
- placing advertisements in the media
- conceptual work on advertising messages
- managing the course of advertising campaigns
- creation and realisation of advertising campaigns:
• creating and placing advertising, planning social media marketing campaigns in newspapers, periodicals, radio, television, over the internet and other media
• creating and placing of outdoor advertising (e.g. billboards, panels, bulletins and frames, window dressing, showroom design, car and bus carding)
• aerial advertising
• distribution or delivery of advertising material or samples
• design of stands and other display structures and sites
- conducting marketing campaigns and other advertising services
• promotion of products
• merchandising
• point-of-sale marketing
• direct mail advertising
• marketing consulting
• influencer marketing
What it excludes
This class excludes:
- manufacturing of advertising material, see section C depending on the type of material
- manufacturing of stands for fairs and exhibitions and of product displays, see section C depending on the type of material
- installation of stands for fairs and exhibitions, see 43.32
- publishing of advertising material, see 58.19
- production of commercial messages for television and film, see 59.11
- production of commercial product videos (including production of videos for social networks), see 59.11
- publishing of contents that include video (e.g. by influencers, bloggers and vloggers), see 59.11
- production of commercial messages for radio, see 59.20
- content distribution (sharing) platforms, including blogs and wiki sites, social network sites, and operation of online gaming / video game sites, independent of publishing the games, see 60.39
- market research and public opinion polling, see 73.20
- advertising photography, see 74.20
- postal and mailing activities, see 82.10
- convention and trade show organisers, see 82.30
- advertising services used to fund predominant activities of the business which may be provided free of charge, see predominant activity
Correspondence with NACE Rev. 2
The label in 24 languages
- bgДейност на рекламни агенции
- csČinnosti reklamních agentur
- daReklamebureauers aktiviteter
- deTätigkeiten von Werbeagenturen
- elΔραστηριότητες διαφημιστικών γραφείων
- enActivities of advertising agencies
- esActividades de las agencias de publicidad
- etReklaamiagentuuride tegevus
- fiMainostoimistojen toiminta
- frActivités d’agence de publicité
- gaGníomhaíochtaí gníomhaireachtaí fógraíochta
- hrDjelatnosti agencija za promidžbu
- huReklámügynöki tevékenység
- itAttività di agenzie pubblicitarie
- ltReklamos agentūrų veikla
- lvReklāmas aģentūru darbība
- mtAttivitajiet tal-aġenziji tar-reklamar
- nlActiviteiten van reclamebureaus
- plDziałalność agencji reklamowych
- ptAtividades de agências de publicidade
- roActivități ale agențiilor de publicitate
- skČinnosti reklamných agentúr
- slDejavnost oglaševalskih agencij
- svReklambyråer
Neighbouring classes
73.12 Media representation
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Official classification texts from EU Vocabularies (Publications Office of the European Union, CC BY 4.0), read on 2026-10-05. Correspondence tables link classes that cover the same activities; one old class can be split across several new ones, so check the notes before you convert a dataset. Information only.