Quotes About Advertising

What I saw in the record industry is it's just getting more restricted, more restricted, more restricted to where everyone's trying to figure out what kind of song to make to get on the radio: that's researched and where advertisers are telling you what to play.

Ad revenue is important, but we want to be self-sustaining.

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

There are a lot of people who are trying hard to sell themselves as Russian vodkas.

Sales may lead to advertising as much as advertising leads to sales.

Upfronts are all about ad sales.

Apps or media who make money on advertising are never satisfied with 'enough' of your attention. They will always fight for more.

While a traditional TV advert might last for 30 seconds, a child can play an advergame for hours on end.

I had just come off doing a lot of commercials when I did 'Go,' so a part of the fast pace and efficiency comes from the discipline I had to learn from telling stories in 25-second increments, and that type of discipline is insane.

I got a part in a package of commercials for this big drugstore from the age of 6 to 10. For four years I shot those commercials, and old ladies would stop me on the street and grab my cheeks. That's how it started.

Football is a product, and you can package it anyway you want to.

The health claims on packaging are there because they sell products.

When I was working at the game company, I wasn't just doing graphic design, I was doing the entire product management, so I would do the graphic design, I would create the advertisements, even the catch copies. I would figure out what kind of packaging and design of the packaging, so I was basically doing total product management at that time.

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

Mini-series are my favorite medium to act in because it's the right amount of pages you shoot a day, it's the right amount of time that you're with a character, and they really advertise it a lot so that people get excited for this epic event.

Censorship is advertising paid by the government.

ABC would love to do groundbreaking shows and there are moments for that, but they're also trying to entertain millions and millions of people and paid advertisers and keep my family happy.

My father was in the ad business, and he wanted to be a painter.

I started billboard painting in Minneapolis, and I went to General Outdoor Advertising, and I said, 'I could do that.' They said, 'Oh yeah... we can always use a good man around here.'

With each new pair of shoes, each new wrist-watch, each new Walkman or moisture-wicking wonder-material that runners put on, the sport became more alluring to me and to millions of others.

I've come to realize nobody needs what we sell. There's hardly a woman who needs another pair of black shoes.

When I was in elementary school, I was a big fan of the zip-off pants that could be turned into shorts. The Delia's catalog used to be my bible.

Now the look of the book dictates the sale. In my day you could still buy a good cookbook in paperback with no pictures at all. I doubt if that would sell today. But those books were much used: they lived in the kitchen and got splattered with custard and gravy.

After my first ad, I was flooded with offers, which I took up. Soon, I decided that it could be a lucrative business with a parallel college life.