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The advertising medium has been evolving, increasingly encompassing new technologies as well as expanding its areas of intervention. This research article uses the Systematic Bibliometric Literature Review methodology, and its main objective is to clarify the state of the art regarding advertising and sustainability, since if advertising is one of the main allies for the success of brands, sustainability has become one of its main strategies. The starting question is whether advertising has been used to communicate sustainability. The methodology used in this study is a systematic bibliometric literature review (LRSB) to collect, analyze and synthesize data on advertising and sustainability, and covers a period of publications from the year 2007 to 2024, with the support of visual maps of the research indexed in the Scopus Database, created with VOSViewer. The aim was to give an overview of the studies published in this scientific area. The qualitative results of the analysis suggest that the theme of sustainability has been studied and associated with brands and sectors of activity such as luxury brands. The analysis leads to the suggestion of a reduced connection between sustainability and advertising, with studies on \u201cgreen advertising\u201d being mentioned, which allows us to affirm that this is an area that requires more in-depth studies, despite the fact that these initial results, on the one hand, help professionals in the field of digital marketing to make decisions, as well as clarifying the topic from a research point of view.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/platforms2020006","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2024,6,5]],"date-time":"2024-06-05T05:59:42Z","timestamp":1717567182000},"page":"84-100","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":7,"title":["Sustainable Brand Advertising\u2014The Green Advertising for Generation Z, a Qualitative LRSB Analyze"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"2","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-9377-0447","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Paula Rosa","family":"Lopes","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Centre for Research in Applied Communication, Culture, and New Technologies (CICANT), Lus\u00f3fona University, Campus Campo Grande, 1749-024 Lisboa, Portugal"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-4793-4110","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Alb\u00e9rico Travassos","family":"Ros\u00e1rio","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"The Research Unit on Governance, Competitiveness and Public Policies (GOVCOPP), Universidade Europeia, Campus Santos, 1200-649 Lisbon, Portugal"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-5110-4008","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Filipe Sales","family":"Ros\u00e1rio","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"IADE-Faculdade de Design, Tecnologia e Comunica\u00e7\u00e3o, Universidade Europeia, Campus Santos, 1200-649 Lisbon, Portugal"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2024,6,5]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"5556","DOI":"10.3390\/su14095556","article-title":"Sustainable Entrepreneurship: A literature review","volume":"14","author":"Raimundo","year":"2022","journal-title":"Sustainability"},{"key":"ref_2","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"681","DOI":"10.1007\/s11625-018-0627-5","article-title":"Three pillars of sustainability: In search of conceptual origins","volume":"14","author":"Robinson","year":"2019","journal-title":"Sustain. 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