The Journal of Advertising is published fives times per year and is a peer-reviewed academic journal covering advertising theories and their relationship with practice.

It is owned by the American Academy of Advertising[1] and published on their behalf by Routledge Taylor & Francis.

The journal is abstracted and indexed in Communication Abstracts, Current Contents/Social and Behavioral Sciences, Emerald Management Reviews, International Bibliography of the Social Sciences, PsycINFO, ProQuest, Scopus, and Social Sciences Citation Index.

According to the Journal Citation Reports, the Journal has a 2019 impact factor of 6.302.

[2] The following persons have been editors-in-chief of the journal: As of January 2020, the editor-in-chief is Shelly Rodgers (University of Missouri)