Quotes about Advertising

Advertising is the art of convincing people to spend money they don't have for something they don't need. Votes: 8

Advertising is legalized lying. Votes: 7

Advertising is the life of trade. Votes: 5

Advertising is an environmental striptease for a world of abundance. Votes: 5

Advertising is judged not by what it says, but by what the consumer thinks it says. Votes: 5

Advertising is the ability to sense, interpret... to put the very heart throbs of a business into type, paper and ink. Votes: 5

Promise, large promise, is the soul of an advertisement. Votes: 4

Advertising is the way great brands get to be great brands. Votes: 4

Advertising generally works to reinforce consumer trends rather than to initiate them. Votes: 4

Advertising at its worst will be killed by the Internet. And rightly so. Votes: 4

Advertising teaches people not to trust their judgment. Advertising teaches people to be stupid. Votes: 4

Advertising in the past has been predicated on a mass market and a captive audience. Votes: 4

Advertising is the principal reason why the business man has come to inherit the earth. Votes: 4

Advertising degrades the people it appeals to; it deprives them of their will to choose. Votes: 4

Advertising is the principal reason why the business person has come to inherit the earth. Votes: 4

Advertising: the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it. Votes: 4

The very first law in advertising is to avoid the concrete promise and cultivate the delightfully vague. Votes: 4

Advertising is the modern substitute for argument; its function is to make the worse appear the better. Votes: 4

Chess is as elaborate a waste of human intelligence as you can find outside an advertising agency. Votes: 4

Advertising is to a genuine article what manure is to land, - it largely increases the product. Votes: 4

Advertising has done more to cause the social unrest of the 20th century than any other single factor. Votes: 4

Advertising may be described as the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it. Votes: 4

You can fool all the people all the time if the advertising is right and the budget is big enough. Votes: 4

In my firm, we dealt in lies. Advertising is that ... the skilful use of the truth to mislead, to spoil, to debase. Votes: 4

Advertising has always been the Peck's Bad Boy of American business urging us to buy things we probably don't need and often can't afford. Votes: 4

What is the difference between unethical and ethical advertising? Unethical advertising uses falsehoods to deceive the public; ethical advertising uses truth to deceive the public. Votes: 4

The secret of all effective originality in advertising is not the creation of new and tricky words and pictures, but one of putting familiar words and pictures into new relationships. Votes: 4

Advertising is 'an evil service'. Votes: 3

Advertising is 85% confusion and 15% commission. Votes: 3

Advertising is a symbol-manipulating occupation Votes: 3

Advertising is the art of persuasion. Votes: 3

Advertising is the fuel of enterprise. Votes: 3

Advertising nourishes the consuming power of men. Votes: 3

Advertising is the very essence of democracy. Votes: 3

Advertising can be a very frustrating business. Votes: 3

Advertising never sold a bad product twice. Votes: 3

Sound an alarm! Advertising, not deals, builds brands. Votes: 3

Hark, the Herald Tribune sings, Advertising wondrous things! Votes: 3

Advertising is much like war, minus the venom Votes: 3

Advertising ministers to the spiritual side of trade. Votes: 3

Advertising - A judicious mixture of flattery and threats. Votes: 3

News represents another form of advertising, not liberal propaganda. Votes: 3

All Advertising is essentially a promise of future happiness. Votes: 3

Advertising is the price companies pay for being unoriginal. Votes: 3

Advertising is the life blood of the digital economy. Votes: 3

Advertising is the price you pay for unremakable thinking. Votes: 3

The consumer isn't a moron; she is your wife. Votes: 3

In advertising, not to be different is virtually suicidal. Votes: 3

Advertising is only evil when it advertises evil things. Votes: 3

Advertising is a tax for having an unremarkable product Votes: 3

Advertising is the tax you pay for being unremarkable. Votes: 3

Advertising - a judicious mixture of flattery and threats. Votes: 3

Advertising is the greatest art form of the 20th century. Votes: 3

Advertising moves people toward goods; merchandising moves goods toward people. Votes: 3

Advertising is speech. It's regulated because it's often effective speech Votes: 3

Advertising shouldn't be like medicine. It should be like candy. Votes: 3

What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself. Votes: 3

Advertising has annihilated the power of the most powerful adjectives. Votes: 3

Advertising doesn't create a product advantage. It can only convey it. Votes: 3

Advertising becomes a dialogue that becomes an invitation to a relationship. Votes: 3

Advertising is a wonderful lubricant for business, if it's used properly. Votes: 3

News is something somebody doesn't want printed; all else is advertising. Votes: 3

The more informative your advertising, the more persuasive it will be. Votes: 3

Fifteen Minutes of Notoriety Beats the Best Advertising Money Can Buy Votes: 3

Advertising is the rattling of a stick inside a swill bucket. Votes: 3

I saw a subliminal advertising executive, but only for a second. Votes: 3

Advertising is like learning - a little is a dangerous thing. Votes: 3

Advertising is what happens on TV when people go to bathroom. Votes: 3

Advertising does something important as a sector - culturally and especially economically Votes: 3

Advertising is a ten billion dollar a year misunderstanding with the public Votes: 3

Advertising enriches life by quickening the imagination, arousing interest and enlarging the taste. Votes: 3

Advertising is about norms and values, aspirations and prejudices. It is about culture. Votes: 3

The best ideas come as jokes. Make your thinking as funny as possible. Votes: 3

I have been asked what would I ban immediately if I could. Advertising. Votes: 3

Advertising. The movies do it. TV does it. Why don't you do it? Votes: 3

I do not read advertisements. I would spend all of my time wanting things. Votes: 3

Advertising is just a symptom, a tactic. Marketing is about far more than that. Votes: 3

Advertising is saying you're good. PR is getting someone else to say you're good. Votes: 3

Advertising men and politicians are dangerous if they are separated. Together they are diabolical. Votes: 3

Many a small thing has been made large by the right kind of advertising. Votes: 3

I am responsible for creating and overseeing the future products that make up Google Advertising. Votes: 3

Advertising is what you do when you can't go see somebody. That's all it is. Votes: 3

Advertising degrades the people it appeals to; it deprives them of their will to choose. Votes: 3

Advertising is fundamentally persuasion and persuasion happens to be not a science, but an art. Votes: 3

Advertising works most effectively when it's in line with what people are already trying to do. Votes: 3

Advertising is tax deductible, so we all pay for the privilege of being manipulated and controlled. Votes: 3

Advertising is our printed salesman. It may not be pretty, but it has to be true. Votes: 3

Advertising people who ignore research are as dangerous as generals who ignore decodes of enemy signals. Votes: 3

Advertising, if it is any good, should help to confirm what already is, not what should be. Votes: 3

Advertising will get more and more targeted until it disappears, because perfectly targeted advertising is just information. Votes: 3

Infiniti ads are part of an exciting new trend called "Advertising Whose Sole Purpose Is to Irritate You." Votes: 3

Consumerism is the worship of the god of quantity; advertising is its liturgy. Advertising is schooling in false longing. Votes: 3

Advertising is poison gas. It should bring tears to your eyes, unhinge your nervous system and knock you out. Votes: 3

To advertisers: "Do not compete with your agency in the creative area. Why keep a dog and bark yourself?" Votes: 3

I am in the poison gas business. Advertising should make you choke, make your eyes water, make you feel sick. Votes: 3

Advertising and promotion alone will not sustain a bad product or a product that is not right for the times. Votes: 3

Advertising reaches out to touch the fantasy part of people's lives. And you know, most people's fantasies are pretty sad. Votes: 3

Advertising agencies primary goal is to advertise and sell themselves to the client. Selling the product to the public comes second. Votes: 3

In this very real world, good doesn't drive out evil. Evil doesn't drive out good. But the energetic displaces the passive. Votes: 3

Advertising and art are getting all mixed up. I think some of the most exciting pieces of TV are the commercials. Votes: 3

Advertising is a valuable economic factor because it is the cheapest way of selling goods, particularly if the goods are worthless. Votes: 3

The problem of how to make the Internet advertising friendly bewildered and obsessed Madison Avenue for much of the 1990s. Advertising won. Votes: 3

Advertising must respect the intelligence of its audience and if it does not prompt them to think, it will be instantly dismissed. Votes: 3

Advertising justifies its existence when used in the public interest-it is much too powerful a tool to use solely for commercial purposes. Votes: 3

Advertising gets such a bashing from the world. At parties you are always asked, 'Aren't you just selling people things they don't want? Votes: 3

Advertising is the foot on the accelerator, the hand on the throttle, the spur on the flank that keeps our economy surging forward. Votes: 3

Advertising is a business within a business and the man who neglects it will soon find himself with a business without a business. Votes: 3

I became an art major, took every art class my school had to offer. In college, I majored in Advertising Art and Design. Votes: 3

Advertising is salesmanship mass produced. No one would bother to use advertising if he could talk to all his prospects face-to-face. But he can't. Votes: 3

It takes more than capital to swing business. You've got to have the A. I. D. degree to get by - Advertising, Initiative, and Dynamics. Votes: 3

Advertising is very simple in a lot of ways. Advertisers go where the users go, and users are choosing to spend a lot more time online. Votes: 3

Advertising is the spur on the flank that keeps modern company-helping economy out of hand till the day common sense is restored, if ever it happens. Votes: 3

Advertising is the edge of what people know how to do and of human experience and it explains the latest ways progress has changed us to ourselves. Votes: 3

Advertising is a racket, like the movies and the brokerage business. You cannot be honest without admitting that its constructive contribution to humanity is exactly minus zero. Votes: 3

The Church says: the body is a sin. Science says: the body is a machine. Advertising says: The body is a business. The Body says: I am a fiesta. Votes: 3

I never tell one client that I cannot attend his sales convention because I have a previous engagement with another client; successful polygamy depends upon pretending to each spouse that she is the only pebble on your beach. Votes: 3

I've always been scared of advertising folk. I've met them at parties and I've been to their offices and I've always found them intimidatingly cool. At one company I visited, they held their meetings in a caravan that had somehow been installed in the place, a rather more exotic place to gather than the typical BBC glass box. Votes: 3

An advertising agency is 85 percent confusion and 15 percent commission. Votes: 2

Corporate advertising is simply expensive lying dressed up as brainwashing Votes: 2

Advertising reflects the mores of society, but it does not influence them. Votes: 2

Advertising treats all products with the reverence and the seriousness due to sacraments. Votes: 2

Advertising has always been a huge unrecognised source of outdoor relief for the arts. Votes: 2

Advertising in the final analysis should be news. If it is not news it is worthless. Votes: 2

Advertising is the place where the selfish interests of the manufacturer coincide with the interests of society. Votes: 2

Advertising is the genie which is transforming America into a place of comfort, luxury and ease for millions. Votes: 2

All the papers that matter live off their advertisements, and the advertisers exercise an indirect censorship over news. Votes: 2

Advertising says to people, 'Here's what we've got. Here's what it will do for you. Here's how to get it.' Votes: 2

Advertising is not merely an assembly of competing messages; it is a language itself which is always being used to make the same general proposal Votes: 2

No conflict no story Votes: 1

Health makes good propaganda. Votes: 1

The Best Marketing Is Education! Votes: 1

The news is glorified gossip. Votes: 1

Content Is King, Distribution is Queen Votes: 1

advertising produces familiarity which produces sales Votes: 1

Original Sin has great marketing potential. Votes: 1

Religious advertising is undergoing a dramatic conversion Votes: 1

The future of advertising is the Internet. Votes: 1

A celebrity's body is an advertiser's canvas. Votes: 1

Newspapers provided a common culture of aspiration. Votes: 1

It takes an ad to do that well Votes: 1

There's an ad for every vice. That's advice. Votes: 1

The point of advertising is to destroy markets. Votes: 1

Nothing except the mint can make money without advertising. Votes: 1

In advertising not to be different is virtually suicidal. Votes: 1

The consumer isn't a moron. She is your wife. Votes: 1

What the heart feels today, the head will know tomorrow. Votes: 1

Needs are imposed by nature. Wants are sold by society. Votes: 1

aesthetic isn't simply about good design for good design's sake. Votes: 1

The beauty myth is always actually prescribing behaviour and not appearance. Votes: 1

Marketing is what you do when your product is no good. Votes: 1

Better to be known for something than be forgotten for nothing. Votes: 1

A newspaper is an oversized book with adverts and an expiry date. Votes: 1

For an entrepreneur: wealth invites fame. For a celebrity: fame invites wealth. Votes: 1

What you say in advertising is more important than how you say it. Votes: 1

If you want meaning for your brand or company, dare to embrace conflict Votes: 1

By the way, if anyone here is in advertising or marketing, kill yourself. Votes: 1

Today, one must pay for a world where there is nothing to buy. Votes: 1

News is what somebody somewhere wants to suppress; all the rest is advertising. Votes: 1

The Victorian woman became her ovaries, as today's woman has become her "beauty. Votes: 1

The superior man understands what is right; the inferior man understands what will sell. Votes: 1

Literacy makes man a victim of advertising. Education makes him a victim of employment. Votes: 1

Between Monday and Saturday men make an audience. On Sunday, they make a congregation. Votes: 1

The first lesson of branding: memorability. It's very difficult buying something you can't remember. Votes: 1

The function of advertising is simply to promote and sustain competitive advantage for brands. Votes: 1

Women who love themselves are threatening; but men who love real women, more so. Votes: 1

Narcissism is as profitable to a model as scruffiness is to a homeless person. Votes: 1

The attempt to force human beings to despise themselves is what I call hell. Votes: 1

Creative without strategy is called 'art.' Creative with strategy is called 'advertising.' Votes: 1

It did what all ads are supposed to do: create an anxiety relievable by purchase. Votes: 1

Once a culture becomes entirely advertising friendly, it seizes to be a culture at all. Votes: 1

I love advertising, because I love self-promotion. I love mirror time, which is Me Time. Votes: 1

Prostitutes are paid for taking their clothes off. Celebrities are paid for putting others' clothes on. Votes: 1

I just realized that the key to advertising can be summed up in one word: Bullshit. Votes: 1

The list of sins committed by advertising is limited only by the creativity of its critics Votes: 1

A church service starts and ends with a prayer. A magazine starts and ends with an advert. Votes: 1

Social media is your opportunity to reach a massive number of people with transparency, honesty, and integrity. Votes: 1

If its not done ethically, advertising won't be trusted. If consumers don't trust it, advertising is pointless Votes: 1

Beauty provokes harassment, the law says, but it looks through men's eyes when deciding what provokes it. Votes: 1

James Bond: a paid assassin of plutocratic cartels, a womanizer, a dipsomaniac, a speed demon, a materialist. Votes: 1

We are publishers of content and consumers of content at the same time. (D. Abbot, J.Hegarty) Votes: 1

You could write the best book in the world but if nobody knows about it, it is nothing Votes: 1

Ads sell a great deal more than products. They sell values, images, and concepts of success and worth. Votes: 1

It is a good thing that women are so easily manipulated. Otherwise, most of us wouldn't be here. Votes: 1

As women demanded access to power, the power structure used the beauty myth materially to undermine women's advancement. Votes: 1

We have always said that advertising is just the icing on the cake. It is not the cake. Votes: 1

I have always understood that money made in the patent medicine business is a practical bar to social success. Votes: 1

What are other women really thinking, feeling, experiencing, when they slip away from the gaze and culture of men? Votes: 1

To see what they look like, women look at a mirror. To look like what they see, women read magazines. Votes: 1

You're only as good as your next idea. And if you can't agree on that, then it's time to walk. Votes: 1

I prefer credulity to skepticism and cynicism for there is more promise in almost anything than in nothing at all Votes: 1

The word love has been so abused by publicity and advertisements that we no longer know really what it means. Votes: 1

Always remember: a brand is the most valuable piece of real estate in the world; a corner of someone's mind. Votes: 1

Any fool can write a bad advertisement, but it takes a genius to keep his hands off a good one. Votes: 1

It's one thing to know what people want. It's another to CREATE that want in them. To BUILD that desire. Votes: 1

What editors are obliged to appear to say that men want from women is actually what their advertisers want from women. Votes: 1

It is important to bear in mind that political campaigns are designed by the same people who sell toothpaste and cars. Votes: 1

Do billboard salesmen record their sales on charts? If so, who's at the top of the billboard charts for billboard sales? Votes: 1

Cosmetic surgery processes the bodies of woman-made women, who make up the vast majority of its patient pool, into man-made women. Votes: 1

It's impossible to move, to live, to operate at any level without leaving traces, bits, seemingly meaningless fragments of personal information Votes: 1

The envied are like bureaucrats; the more impersonal they are, the greater the illusion (for themselves and for others) of their power. Votes: 1

As the wall between advertising and content erodes, the aptitude required to understand the functions and design of media content becomes more complex. Votes: 1

Interviews were invented to make journalism less passive. Instead of waiting for something to happen, journalists ask someone what should or could happen. Votes: 1

Doing business without advertising is like winking at a girl in the dark. You know what you are doing but nobody else does. Votes: 1

If advertisers spent the same amount of money on improving their products as they do on advertising then they wouldn't have to advertise them. Votes: 1

It's in our biology to trust what we see with our eyes. This makes living in a carefully edited, overproduced and photoshopped world very dangerous. Votes: 1

Advertising that makes fun of itself is so powerful because itimplicitly congratulates both itself and the viewer (for making the joke andgetting the joke, respectively). Votes: 1

You don't sell the product, you sell the philosophy. When you sell a product, you have customers, when you sell a philosophy, you have believers. Votes: 1

When reading a book, you are sold what some writer thought. When reading a newspaper, you are sold what someone did, and, what some advertiser made. Votes: 1

No offense but a seller will say whatever it takes to sell a product but if you sum it up, it comes down to hard work. Votes: 1

Copywriters, journalists, mainstream authors, ghostwriters, bloggers and advertising creatives have as much right to think of themselves as good writers as academics, poets, or literary novelists. Votes: 1

Advertising departments, as you know, are crawling with people whose frontal lobes are so underdeveloped that if you flatter them a bit they'll swear shit is platinum. Votes: 1

And I knew with total certainty that a protection factor of fifteen was the highest level of sunblock scientifically possible. Now they were selling me a thirty. Votes: 1

The irony is, the advertising industry knows everyone hates what they produce. This is why they keep looking for new ways to force people to stay tuned. Votes: 1

You go on Facebook, you buy social advertising. And you can very cost-effectively target people who are in the market for your product from all over the world. Votes: 1

Much of the messy advertising you see on television today is the product of committees. Committees can criticize advertisements, but they should never be allowed to create them. Votes: 1

Look at the language. If a scientist delivers the simple, unconditional, absolutely certain statements that politicians and journalists want, he is talking as an activist, not a scientist. Votes: 1

The art of advertisement, after the American manner, has introduced into all our life such a lavish use of superlatives, that no standard of value whatever is intact. Votes: 1

The incessant witless repetition of advertisers' moron-fodder has become so much a part of life that, if we are not careful, we forget to be insulted by it. Votes: 1

The effectiveness of advertising depends on the amount and kind of product information available to consumers... advertising will be more successful the more impoverished the consumer's information environment Votes: 1

I don't know the rules of grammar. If you're trying to persuade people to do something, or buy something, it seems to me you should use their language. Votes: 1

Art directors speak in pictures. If you want an art director to understand what you're saying, you need to draw some lines and circles on a piece of paper. Votes: 1

A monarch butterfly has top brand recognition, an excellent recall quotient, and highly favorable demographics. Associate your candidate with famous lepidoptera, and use these filmed spots early and often. Votes: 1

Spokespeople sell women the Iron Maiden and name her "Health": if public discourse were really concerned with women's health, it would turn angrily upon this aspect of the beauty myth. Votes: 1

The work of an advertising agency is warmly and immediately human. It deals with human needs, wants, dreams and hopes. Its 'product' cannot be turned out on an assembly line. Votes: 1

It makes me laugh when she says she [Salma Hayek] got offered Selena, which was an outright lie. If that's what she does to get herself publicity than that's her thing Votes: 1

...isn't it possible that advertising as a whole is a fantastic fraud, presenting an image of America taken seriously by no one, least of all the advertising men who create it? Votes: 1

On the average, five times as many people read the headline as read the body copy. When you have written your headline, you have spent eighty cents out of your dollar. Votes: 1

I believe that life is hard. That we all are going to walk through things that are hard and challenging, and yet advertising wants us to believe that it's all easy. Votes: 1

It is really not so repulsive to see the poor asking for money as to see the rich asking for more money. And advertisement is the rich asking for more money. Votes: 1

Starbucks is not an advertiser; people think we are a great marketing company, but in fact we spend very little money on marketing and more money on training our people than advertising. Votes: 1

Advertising is much less powerful than advertisers and critics of advertising claim, and advertising agencies are stabbing in the dark much more than they are practicing precision microsurgery on the public consciousness Votes: 1

The media network has its idols, but its principal idol is its own style which generates an aura of winning and leaves the rest in darkness. It recognizes neither pity nor pitilessness. Votes: 1

Though you can get smart from reading everything that a smart person writes, you cannot get famous from reading about everything that a famous person does or is said to have done. Votes: 1

Five minutes in an old book quickly reveals that most of what is being sold today as new insights into human behavior is merely the rediscovery of knowledge we have had for centuries. Votes: 1

The stronger that women grow, the more prestige, fame, and money is accorded to the display professions: They are held higher and higher above the heads of rising women, for them to emulate. Votes: 1

Do you know what the difference is between PR and advertising? Advertising is when you say how great you are. PR is when other people say how great you are. PR is better. Votes: 1

Brands that will survive and thrive from now on are those with C-level executives that understand the incredible opportunity new media offers them and commit to excellence in managing their social media presence. Votes: 1

Page after page, advert after advert. Lipsticks, undies, tinned food, patent medicines, slimming cures, face-creams. A sort of cross-section of the money world. A panorama of ignorance, greed, vulgarity, snobbishness, whoredom and disease. Votes: 1

Advertising design, in persuading people to buy things they don`t need, with money they don`t have, in order to impress others who don`t care, is probably the phoniest field in existence today. Votes: 1

Our mental environment is a common-property resource like the air or the water. We need to protect ourselves from unwanted incursions into it, much the same way we lobbied for nonsmoking areas ten years ago. Votes: 1

Healthy" and "diseased," as Susan Sontag points out...are often subjective judgments that society makes for its own purposes. Women have long been defined as sick as a means of subjecting them to social control. Votes: 1

The surgeons' market is imaginary, since there is nothing wrong with women's faces or bodies that social change won't cure; so the surgeons depend for their income on warping female self-perception and multiplying female self-hatred. Votes: 1

Today a woman must ignore her reflection in the eyes of her lover, since he might admire her, and seek it in the gaze of the God of Beauty, in whose perception she is never complete. Votes: 1

Transforming a brand into a socially responsible leader doesn't happen overnight by simply writing new marketing and advertising strategies. It takes effort to identify a vision that your customers will find credible and aligned with their values. Votes: 1

For your business to stand out and succeed, you have to put a primary focus on the social media space, go in big (halfway will not do), and do it better than most, right from the start. Votes: 1

After the collapse of socialism, capitalism remained without a rival. This unusual situation unleashed its greedy and - above all - its suicidal power. The belief is now that everything - and everyone - is fair game. Votes: 1

Advertising expresses a power relationship . . . One person, the advertiser, invades; millions absorb. And to what end? So that people will buy something! A deep, profound and disturbing act by the few against the many for a trivial purpose. Votes: 1

Advertising is a business of words, but advertising agencies are infested with men and women who cannot write. They cannot write advertisements, and they cannot write plans. They are helpless as deaf mutes on the stage of the Metropolitan Opera. Votes: 1

There are huge advertising budgets only when there's no difference between the products. If the products really were different, people would buy the one that's better. Advertising teaches people not to trust their judgment. Advertising teaches people to be stupid. Votes: 1

The error that we tend to make is that we think that women's magazines are what editors want and what their readers want - and thus are social indicators - when, in fact, they are what advertisers want. They're just advertising indicators. Votes: 1

I am saddened by the modern system of advertising. Whatever evidence it offers of enterprise, ingenuity, impudence, and resource in certain individuals, it proves to my mind the wide prevalence of that form of mental degradation which is called gullibility. [An anarchist] Votes: 1

On the prow of the wagon, in an attempt to attract business among the Quarterites, Ignatius taped a sheet of Big Chief paper on which he had printed in crayon: TWELVE INCHES (12) OF PARADISE. So far no one had responded to its message. Votes: 1

The codfish lays ten thousand eggs.The homely hen lays one.Codfish never cackles to tell you what she has done.And so we scorn the codfish,while the humble hen we prize,which only goes to show you that it pays to advertise! Votes: 1

Here is what the practical impact of Citizens United means. What Citizens United means is that corporations call hundreds of millions of dollars into television ads, radio ads, and other forms of advertising to defeat those candidates who stand up and take them on. Votes: 1

Have you heard of this new thing called the internet? It's giving people new expectations. It's allowing them to become their own expert. Knowledge lies anxious at their fingertips. Gloss over the truth in your advertising and you'll quickly be dismissed as a poser. Votes: 1

When governments rely increasingly on sophisticated public relations agencies, public debate disappears and is replaced by competing propaganda campaigns, with all the accompanying deceits. Advertising isn't about truth or fairness or rationality, but about mobilising deeper and more primitive layers of the human mind. Votes: 1

Whatever modern democracies may tell themselves about their commitment to free speech and to diversity of opinion, the values of a given society will uncannily match those of whichever organizations have the scale to pay for runs of thirty-second slots around the nightly news bulletin. Votes: 1

If we return to the roots of planning we see at its heart a desire to understand human behaviour and provide a robust model for influencing it. Rather than dismantling strategy into endless experimentation, we need a new way of understanding the world, a modern philosophy. Votes: 1

A huge advertisement in the unmistakably bright red tones of Vodacom, the global mobile phone giant, looked on this tawdry scene. It read to me like a distilled message about the only values that remained in this country, whose leaders were once committed Marxists: money and power. Votes: 1

Good evening ladies and gentlemen. Eat pudding. Books are good. Eat pudding. If kids read a lot. Eat pudding. They'll get so they can think clearly. Eat pudding. And if enough kids read and think. Eat pudding. We will have world peace. Eat pudding. Thank you very much. Eat pudding. Votes: 1

Here the query A320 returns algorithmic search results about the Airbus aircraft, together with advertisements for various non-aircraft goods numbered A320 that advertisers seek to market to those querying on this query. The lack of advertisements for the aircraft reflects the fact that few marketers attempt to sell A320 aircraft on the web. Votes: 1

When the Internet first came into public use, it was hailed as a liberation from conformity, a floating world ruled by passion, creativity, innovation and freedom of information. When it was hijacked first by advertising and then by commerce, it seemed like it had been fully co-opted and brought into line with human greed and ambition. Votes: 1

All advertising advertises advertising. Votes: 0

Stop advertising and start innovating. Votes: 0

My father did advertising photography. Votes: 0

Because I'm in advertising, not electricity! Votes: 0

Everything a brand does is advertising. Votes: 0

I've written books on advertising-cheque books. Votes: 0

Online advertising is display plus search. Votes: 0

Editorial outfits are now advertising agencies. Votes: 0

I walked out with 14 advertising projects. Votes: 0

More traffic means more advertising dollars. Votes: 0

Censorship is advertising paid by the government. Votes: 0

Today's smartest advertising style is tomorrow's corn. Votes: 0

People don't understand the logistics of advertising. Votes: 0

Arrogance needs advertising, confidence speaks for itself. Votes: 0

Powerful advertising is anticipated, personal, and relevant. Votes: 0

Sanely applied advertising could remake the world. Votes: 0

Keep advertising and advertising will keep you. Votes: 0

Telling lies does not work in advertising. Votes: 0

Good advertising is a dialog with people... Votes: 0

I love advertising because I love lying. Votes: 0

Digital advertising is now larger than TV. Votes: 0

Sometimes a beautiful face is false advertising Votes: 0

A self-advertising writer is always a self-extinguished writer. Votes: 0

The best advertising is done by satisfied customers. Votes: 0

Just advertising departments with legs and high heels. Votes: 0

Contrary to popular belief, Americans don't hate advertising. Votes: 0

When advertising is great, it's transcendent. It's art. Votes: 0

We should want our advertising to be compelling. Votes: 0

Great advertising is the expression of deep emotional sincerity. Votes: 0

Positioning should be decided before the advertising is created Votes: 0

If your advertising goes unnoticed, everything else is academic. Votes: 0

The power of publicity is more important than advertising. Votes: 0

Ninety-nine percent of advertising doesn't sell much of anything. Votes: 0

The art of advertising - untruthfulness combined with repetition. Votes: 0

Nothing except the mint can make money without advertising. Votes: 0

We are pushing hard to find quality advertising clients. Votes: 0

Nothing kills a bad product faster than good advertising. Votes: 0

I went into journalism to do journalism, not advertising. Votes: 0

If your advertising goes unnoticed, everything else is academic! Votes: 0

In my opinion, fun is what makes advertising successful. Votes: 0

Give them quality. That's the best kind of advertising. Votes: 0

In advertising, not to be different is virtual suicide. Votes: 0

The enemies of advertising are the enemies of freedom. Votes: 0

The most powerful element in advertising is the truth. Votes: 0

I'm Phil Knight, and I don't believe in advertising. Votes: 0

I think mobile advertising is going to be huge. Votes: 0

The eros of advertising is lurid but not specific. Votes: 0

There is no rivalry between Google and traditional advertising. Votes: 0

News is what someone wants suppressed. Everything else is advertising. Votes: 0

Language thus becomes monumental because of the mutations of advertising. Votes: 0

Never stop testing, and your advertising will never stop improving. Votes: 0

Language thus becomes monumental because of the mutations of advertising Votes: 0

Look, I went into journalism to do journalism, not advertising, Votes: 0

There is no such thing as a permanent advertising success. Votes: 0

Your face is a billboard advertising your philosophy of life! Votes: 0

When advertising is involved, you, the user, are the product. Votes: 0

Society drives people crazy with lust and calls it advertising. Votes: 0

I warn you against believing that advertising is a science. Votes: 0

I could live very quietly, do advertising to earn money. Votes: 0

Insomnia is an all-night travel agency with posters advertising faraway places. Votes: 0

The more advertising I see, the less I want to buy. Votes: 0

Social media reaches farther than we can physically reach with advertising. Votes: 0

The internet is the most underutilized advertising medium that's out there. Votes: 0

People love advertising in particular but they hate advertising in general. Votes: 0

Anticipated, personal, and relevant advertising always does better than unsolicited junk. Votes: 0

The most interesting thing about Google is its founders hated advertising. Votes: 0

Nobody has ever built a brand by imitating somebody else's advertising. Votes: 0

CBS is the largest out-of-home advertising company in the U.S. Votes: 0

I don't watch television. And certainly not ads; I loathe advertising. Votes: 0

The advertising world had space men in it before spacemen existed. Votes: 0

As to the idea that advertising motivates people, remember the Edsel. Votes: 0

American advertisers rely on 'essentially illogical' approaches to determine their advertising budgets. Votes: 0

If advertising encourages people to live beyond their means, so does matrimony. Votes: 0

Television, I would say, isn't an advertising medium. It's a selling medium. Votes: 0

Abstract art: a construction site for high fashion, for advertising, for furniture. Votes: 0

Thus ideas like subliminal advertising today rarely works and or even exists. Votes: 0

I promised to have no partisan affiliation and no subsidy except advertising. Votes: 0

All media owners want to attract advertising revenue. Google is no different. Votes: 0

Mass demand has been created almost entirely through the development of advertising. Votes: 0

A magazine is simply a device to induce people to read advertising. Votes: 0

Regardless of the moral issue, dishonesty in advertising has proved very unprofitable Votes: 0

Sales may lead to advertising as much as advertising leads to sales. Votes: 0

Regardless of the moral issue, dishonesty in advertising has proved very unprofitable. Votes: 0

As advertising blather becomes the nation's normal idiom, language becomes printed noise. Votes: 0

The best advertising should make you nervous about what you're not buying, Votes: 0

Great advertising, in and of itself, becomes a benefit of the product. Votes: 0

You really want to get a headache? Try to understand Internet advertising. Votes: 0

We have to move from making good advertising, to making advertising good. Votes: 0

The printed newspaper is a powerful showcase for news, opinion and advertising. Votes: 0

You don't defend national sovereignty with flags, cheap election rhetoric, and advertising campaigns. Votes: 0

The biggest mistake businesses make is advertising before they have become well known. Votes: 0

Creativity is an advertising agency's most valuable asset, because it is the rarest. Votes: 0

The critic is the only independent source of information. The rest is advertising. Votes: 0

The Internet and Yahoo are firmly established as 'must buys' for brand advertising. Votes: 0

I've been saying for years that page view-based advertising is a corrupting force. Votes: 0

There are really very few economies of scale in centralising or standardising advertising. Votes: 0

Real content marketing isn't repurposed advertising, it is making something worth talking about. Votes: 0

The more shame, the more clicks; the more clicks, the more advertising dollars. Votes: 0

A viewer who skips the advertising is the moral equivalent of a shoplifter. Votes: 0

Sometimes the most important job advertising can do, is to clarify the obvious. Votes: 0

News is what somebody somewhere wants to suppress; all the rest is advertising. Votes: 0

We grew up founding our dreams on the infinite promise of American advertising. Votes: 0

The advertising man who spares the midnight oil will not get very far Votes: 0

The real future of the Hispanic targeted media and advertising is in English. Votes: 0

Driving up the value of the advertising is a big commitment for Microsoft. Votes: 0

Stopping advertising to save money is like stopping your watch to save time. Votes: 0

I've never found a client's business problem that could be solved solely through advertising. Votes: 0

America is one of few advanced nations that allow direct advertising of prescription drugs. Votes: 0

I went out to some advertising agencies and asked if I could do anything. Votes: 0

Expensive advertising courts us with hints and images. The ordinary kind merely says, Buy. Votes: 0

Outside of advertising, the person who's influenced me most is quite possibly Frank Gehry. Votes: 0

One customer well taken care of could be more valuable than $10,000 worth of advertising. Votes: 0

For every $1 advertisers spend advertising something healthful like apples, they spend $500 advertising junk food. Votes: 0

Chess is the most elaborate waste of human intelligence outside of an advertising agency Votes: 0

Google has a very powerful and new advertising model that, for them, prints money. Votes: 0

The essence of good advertising is not to inspire hope, but to create greed. Votes: 0

We do not invest in advertising... So racing is the best advertising for Ferrari. Votes: 0

If advertising is not an official or state art, it is nonetheless clearly art. Votes: 0

We see Facebook as an advertising platform. We see Ello as a social network. Votes: 0

Every time I surrender to stress, aren’t I advertising the unreliability of God? Votes: 0

Good advertising is a happy wedding of words and pictures, not a contest between them. Votes: 0

The only purpose of advertising is to sell. It has no other function worth mentioning. Votes: 0

In the world of commercial speech, tobacco advertising bears the earmarks of an endangered species. Votes: 0

Politics, like advertising, is about people selling you things you didn't really want or need. Votes: 0

The psychiatrists say that everybody should have a hobby. The hobby I recommend is advertising Votes: 0

I believe Larry Page is moving Google from an advertising-based company to a commerce-based company. Votes: 0

I always loved advertising. If I hadn't been in fashion, I'd have been in advertising. Votes: 0

Most criticism of advertising is written in ignorance of what actually happens inside these agencies. Votes: 0

I can not think of any circumstances in which advertising would not be an evil. Votes: 0

Yahoo! is the only company with both scale and leadership in branded and search advertising. Votes: 0

I don't see a point in advertising my marital status when men don't. Completely ridiculous. Votes: 0

Display advertising and the movies, though they may dull the wits, certainly stimulate the eyes. Votes: 0

I had to quit triathlons, I continued to be active and worked in advertising agency . Votes: 0

TOMS didn't have to focus on advertising, but on giving in a way that's sustainable. Votes: 0

Books so special and rare and yours that advertising your affection feels like a betrayal. Votes: 0

The cable model is just a better model. Dual revenue stream: advertising-supported and subscription-supported revenues. Votes: 0

The smartest advertising is the advertising that communicates the best and respects the consumer's intelligence. Votes: 0

You aren’t advertising to a standing army; you are advertising to a moving parade. Votes: 0

The most common trouble with advertising is that it tries too hard to impress people. Votes: 0

Traditional media brand advertising is 65% to 70% spend; online, it's like 28%. You've got a huge margin. Votes: 0

A politician without money for advertising is out of luck. They are not taken seriously. Votes: 0

If you can’t advertise yourself, what hope do you have of advertising anything else? Votes: 0

I long for the day when advertising will become a business for a grown man. Votes: 0

In F-111, I question the collusion between the Vietnam War, income taxes, consumerism, and advertising. Votes: 0

I was always more interested in being a woman first and an advertising person second. Votes: 0

I worked at Military Media, an advertising agency for military-base newspapers. Don't ask, I won't tell. Votes: 0

The Internet, as a First Amendment medium, hinges on free expression, and that means free advertising. Votes: 0

The first law in advertising is to avoid the concrete promise... and cultivate the delightfully vague. Votes: 0

Good advertising does not just circulate information. It penetrates the public mind with desires and belief. Votes: 0

There's all kinds of people teaching who don't do anything worth a nickel. Likewise in advertising. Votes: 0

Good advertising does not just circulate information. It penetrates the public mind with desires and belief Votes: 0

Good advertising does not just circulate information. It penetrates the public mind with desires and belief. Votes: 0

Nobody should be allowed to create general advertising until he has served his apprenticeship in direct-response Votes: 0

The time has come when advertising in some hands has reached the status of a science. Votes: 0

I honestly believe that advertising is the most fun you can have with your clothes on. Votes: 0

I have raced against the clock since I went into advertising at the age of eighteen. Votes: 0

In the arts, the critic is the only independent source of information. The rest is advertising. Votes: 0

I know that half of my advertising dollars are wasted ... I just don't know which half. Votes: 0

As a profession advertising is young; as a force it is as old as the world. Votes: 0

I used to run record companies, and I went to the advertising business at 29 years old. Votes: 0

God never talks. But the devil keeps advertising, Father. The devil does a lot of commercials. Votes: 0

Oh, yeah. A big part of my job is drinking martinis when I work in advertising. Votes: 0

When you get $1 billion of free advertising, it's hard not to have anybody buy the product. Votes: 0

Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted; the trouble is I don't know which half. Votes: 0

No amount of advertising can repair the damage done by failing to properly address a customer's concern. Votes: 0

The very first law in advertising is to avoid the concrete promise and cultivate the delightfully vague. Votes: 0

Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted; the trouble is, I don't know which half. Votes: 0

I left advertising as fast as I could in 1961. And I haven't ever thought about going back. Votes: 0

If its not done ethically, advertising won't be trusted. If consumers don't trust it, advertising is pointless. Votes: 0

I was never an actor. I had done one or two random projects in my advertising career. Votes: 0

I do not regard advertising as entertainment or an art form, but as a medium of information. Votes: 0

The biggest mistake young designers make is that they try to make their advertising look like advertising Votes: 0

School is the advertising agency which makes you believe that you need the society as it is. Votes: 0

There's much more money being brought into the advertising and communications business than in the music industry. Votes: 0

Neoclassical economics insists that advertising cannot force consumers to buy anything they don't already want to buy. Votes: 0

The history of media is the market share of advertising dollars has followed.. albeit with a lag. Votes: 0

Now with the Internet, a celebrity is fair game, and it's all designed to sell advertising space. Votes: 0

Ninety-five percent of the time when I run a contest I've purchased the giveaway prizes with advertising money. Votes: 0

You have to do a little bragging on yourself even to your relatives-man doesn't get anywhere without advertising. Votes: 0

On email and the first instance of spam: This is not for advertising! This is for serious work! Votes: 0

Time spent in the advertising business seems to create a permanent deformity like the Chinese habit of foot-binding. Votes: 0

Let's gear our advertising to sell goods, but let's recognize also that advertising has a broad social responsibility. Votes: 0

We are generally pleased that we were able to report a solid quarter in a tough advertising environment,. Votes: 0

To be a success in advertising you must want to fill other people with a passion for possession. Votes: 0

The ordinary run of advertising is nothing more than an effort to sell something by yelling in print. Votes: 0

Consider the way of the scientists rather than the way of an advertising agent for a new soap. Votes: 0

The force of the advertising word and image dwarfs the power of other literature in the 20th century. Votes: 0

It is advertising and the logic of consumerism that governs the depiction of reality in the mass media. Votes: 0

The plain truth is that the only consistent theme in advertising is the absence of any consistent theme. Votes: 0

What advertising dum-dum signed up Ilie Nastase to sell a resort?! Who'd want to go where he's at? Votes: 0

As a child, I wanted to go into advertising. I had a love affair with the advertising industry. Votes: 0

The only purpose of advertising is to make sales. It is profitable or unprofitable according to its actual sales. Votes: 0

All art is advertising. It stands for a particular point of view. Art that exploits badness is advertising badness. Votes: 0

They say that Madison Avenue will only pay high dollars in advertising if they get the 18-35 age range. Votes: 0

The engine of ancient society was religion but the engine of contemporary society, as I see it, is advertising. Votes: 0

It's almost as if creativity is dead. The visual power of advertising was everywhere - now it's basically gone. Votes: 0

What really decides consumers to buy or not to buy is the content of your advertising, not its form. Votes: 0

If you use your money to create exceptional products and services, you won't need to spend it on advertising. Votes: 0

The man who stops advertising to save money is like the man who stops the clock to save time. Votes: 0

The best ways of marketing were email and banner advertising, but I needed images... and they were very expensive. Votes: 0

It's the lack of ambition that cripples most people, and makes them so pedestrian in the advertising/creative business Votes: 0

You can make a movie about anything, as long as it has a hook to hang the advertising on. Votes: 0

It is very likely that many firms spend more on advertising than, for their own best interests, they should. Votes: 0

Good advertising is written from one person to another. When it is aimed at millions it rarely moves anyone. Votes: 0

We get better search results and we see more appropriate advertising when we let Google know who we are. Votes: 0

Ensure your employees understand what your brand stands for so they can be your first line of word-of-mouth advertising. Votes: 0

Today you can start a blog, build an audience, and give the advertising slots to AdBrite or Google AdSense. Votes: 0

Most photographs take their cues from advertising, where the priority is high image content for an easy Gestalt reading. Votes: 0

Life is beset by many annoyances, and those that stand out above all are the life- insurance and advertising agents. Votes: 0

Like a midwife, I make my living bringing new babies into the world, except that mine are new advertising campaigns. Votes: 0

Any time an investment company has to spend heavily on advertising, it's probably a bad business in which to invest. Votes: 0

Everything is about color. If you look at magazines and advertising and television, the thing you remember is the color. Votes: 0

If advertising had a little more respect for the public, the public would have a lot more respect for advertising. Votes: 0

I was taken in by what might be called the Hard Times version of the Communists' advertising or recruiting technique. Votes: 0

I have turned down so many major advertising bids because I think either the time isn't right or I'm not. Votes: 0

That the child is the supreme aim of woman is a statement having precisely the value of an advertising slogan. Votes: 0

You can't make money on advertising; you just have to seed the clouds. What you're after is word of mouth. Votes: 0

TV is just advertising for your live gig, so I'm playing whichever show is gonna get me the biggest crowd. Votes: 0

That's great advertising when you can turn Chicago into a city you'd want to spend more than three hours in. Votes: 0

On some planet, I probably could have been a lawyer. On some planet, I could have been somebody in advertising. Votes: 0

No one wakes up excited to see more advertising, no one goes to sleep thinking about the ads theyll see tomorrow. Votes: 0

The more we think we're not affected by media - stereotypes, advertising - the more potential those forms of media have. Votes: 0

I had been keeping an off eye on the advertising field, thinking I might become an idea man and a copywriter. Votes: 0

I've never done any advertising because I feel I am in a position of trust, and that has been very liberating Votes: 0

We've been sold a concept of joy through advertising. It was somehow sold to us through a Gucci bag or something. Votes: 0

I can't say the advertising model is obsolete yet but it doesn't make a lot of sense in the long range. Votes: 0

I had never thought of advertising as a life work, though I had on the side, written some very successful copy. Votes: 0

No one's family is normal. Normalcy is a lie invented by advertising agencies to make the rest of us feel inferior. Votes: 0

I have a fear right now that what I call the advertising-narcissism complex is sucking up way too much top talent. Votes: 0

Marriage is a good deal like a circus: there is not as much in it as is represented in the advertising. Votes: 0

No one wakes up excited to see more advertising, no one goes to sleep thinking about the ads they'll see tomorrow. Votes: 0

I started acting as a kid and doing advertising campaigns. I was probably 8 years old, and I really liked the attention. Votes: 0

Mad Men - it seems like they try to capture this glamorized version of the '50s and '60s advertising culture. Votes: 0

My dream was to have my own advertising agency by the time I was 30, and that was before I got into movies. Votes: 0

I saw on HBO they were advertising a boxing match "It's a fight to the finish". That's a good place to end. Votes: 0

The vocation of each writer is to describe the world as he or she sees it; anything more than that is advertising. Votes: 0

I was in advertising for years. That was cushy, you know? It's pretty cushy in a lot of ways, but I hated it. Votes: 0

I have learned that it is far easier to write a speech about good advertising than it is to write a good ad. Votes: 0