Advertising assistants provide support in all the operations carried out in advertising departments or advertising agencies. They ensure that administrative activities are handle and sort out. They communicate with the staff of the advertisement department and with external clients. Moreover, they have understanding of the operations in advertising as to assist with the pragmatic implementation of plans and tasks carried out by managers and consultants and for being involved in creating content for use both on-line or in print.

Tasks

In such cases tasks would include -
(a) Receiving customers' orders for classified advertising, writing and editing copy, calculating advertising rates and billing customers;
(b) Writing business and government correspondence such as replies to requests for information and assistance, damage claims, credit and billing enquiries and service complaints;
(c) Assisting in the preparation of periodicals, advertisements, catalogues, directories and other material for publication;
(d) Reading newspapers, magazines, press releases and other publications to locate and file articles of interest to staff and clients.