The phrase "advertised themselves" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing how individuals or organizations promote or present themselves to others, often in a marketing or self-promotion context.
Example: "The artists advertised themselves through social media to reach a wider audience."
Alternatives: "promoted themselves" or "marketed themselves".
Communism and the Soviet Union advertised themselves as the answer to everything.
So I was intrigued to hear about the opening this year of two bars on the Lower East Side that conceived of — and advertised — themselves as spaces for the exhibition of art too.
It got gambling advertised in a big way, and all the other gambling firms got together and asked for a level playing field so they could be advertised themselves.
Catharine R. Stimpson, the most recent past director of the fellowship program and now dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Science at New York University, remembered: "A lot of people advertised themselves.
Whatever the vagaries and hypocrisies of a given period or politician, these were the terms by which the parties understood and advertised themselves: the interests of business on one side, workers on the other.
And as Mr. Bush's aides noted, the unexpectedly high expenditures by Mr. Kerry, combined with television spending by independent liberal and Democratic organizations attacking Mr. Bush, outpaced Mr. Bush's spending, suggesting that the two sides had advertised themselves into a standoff.
Proof: In our QoSLocVSDP, service providers advertise themselves by sending QoS-based service advertisement messages every advertisement period (λ QoSAdv ) to the neighboring RRs and vehicles.
Humans may be advertising themselves more efficiently.
"These countries need to advertise themselves.
The needy advertise themselves, and how much they want.
Visitors to museums tend not to advertise themselves as terrorists.
