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Layoffs are common when accounts are lost, major clients cut advertising budgets, or agencies merge. Top Firms in the advertising industry prepare advertisements for other companies and organizations and might also arrange to place them in print, broadcast, interactive, and other media. This industry also includes firms that sell advertising space for publications, radio, television, and the Internet. Divisions of companies that produce and place their own advertising are not considered part of this industry. Companies often look to advertising as a way of increasing sales.