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Last Published: 8/27/2019

The Advertising Law sets advertising standards in Georgia.  Advertisements must be in Georgian, and trademarks in a foreign language need to be accompanied with Georgian text.  Pharmaceutical and medical equipment advertising requires a permit from the Ministry of Health, Labor, and Social Affairs.  Advertising of firearms—including firearms used for sport—requires special permission from the Ministry of Internal Affairs.  Alcohol and cigarette advertising is also subject to restrictions in the Advertising Law.  Municipalities supervise and monitor compliance with the Advertising Law.

There are several advertising agencies in Georgia, but businesses usually contact television, press, and radio advertising agencies directly.  Georgian broadcasters successfully switched from analogue to digital in 2015.  The Tbilisi-based Georgian Public Broadcaster (GPB) includes Channel 1, Channel 2 as well as the Batumi-based Adjara TV, and the State Budget funds all three.  There are also a number of independent commercial television broadcasters, such as Imedi,  Rustavi 2, Pirveli TV, Maestro, Kavkasia, Georgian Dream Studios (GDS), Obiektivi, and a small Russian language operator TOK TV.  Tabula and Post TV are web-based television outlets.  All of these bradcasters and web-based television outlets, except GDS, carry the news.  The Georgian Orthodox Church also operates a satellite-based television station called Unanimity.  There are 26 regional television broadcasters across Georgia that are members of the Georgian Association of Regional Broadcasters and/or the Alliance of Georgian Broadcasters.  The broadcaster organizations seek to strengthen the regional media's capacities and distribution of regional products.

The major newspapers are the weekly newspaper Kviris Palitra, weekly tabloids Asaval-Dasavali and Kviris Qronika, the daily tabloids Alia, Akhali Taoba, and Resonansi.  Georgia Today, The Messenger, the Georgian Journal, and the Georgian Times are English language publications.  Major analytical magazines—no longer in print but online—are the weekly Tabula and Liberali, and major online publications include Netgazeti, Interpressnews, ambebi.ge, agenda.ge, ghn.ge, Civil.ge, BM.ge, Sakinformi.ge, and DFWatch.

Major periodicals are The Georgian Business Week (in Russian and English), Bank and Finance, Banki Plus, Finance, Macro-Micro Economics, and Economics (in Georgian and English).  The Association of Regional Publishers is based in Tbilisi and was founded by regional newspapers.  The American Chamber of Commerce in Georgia publishes the bimonthly Investor.ge magazine in English.

Expo Georgia, a local exhibition and conference center, also offers online advertising services including banner placement and links on its website.
 

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