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Quotes About Advertising

Video is crucial to the future of media: premium video in that respect.
~ Ross Levinsohn
Advertisers and marketers should be looking to bring new experiences to different parts of the brain. It's a more profound idea than just dropping a billboard into a video game.
~ Jaron Lanier
We think we have to work because the advertising industry has elevated wants into needs. The newspapers and the television batter us incessantly with the latest 'must-haves', whether that's shoes, videogames or patio heaters. As a result, mums think they 'have' to work at Tesco in order to buy expensive trainers.
~ Tom Hodgkinson
Appropriation is the idea that ate the art world. Go to any Chelsea gallery or international biennial and you'll find it. It's there in paintings of photographs, photographs of advertising, sculpture with ready-made objects, videos using already-existing film.
~ Jerry Saltz
I think of music videos as commercials for songs.
~ Valerie Faris
I come from music videos and commercials, where style is a big part of the whole world. I've always tried to add that to whatever I'm doing.
~ Ruben Fleischer
When I was doing music videos, everybody was very snobbish about music video directors doing commercials. It was all guys from ad agencies.
~ David Slade
'Flappy Bird' was one of those phenomena. If we could all build one now, we would. Probably a bunch of us are trying. Those kinds of games are interesting. Rumor has it he was making $50,000 a day just from advertising, which is great, especially given the cost of living in Vietnam.
~ Chris DeWolfe
I always knew that content was the best way to sell things, but my thing was, why sell other people's stuff if I have a point of view?
~ Damon Dash
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~ Liza Mundy
Unfortunately, as a society, we do not teach our children that they need to tend carefully the garden of their minds . Without structure, censorship, or discipline, our thoughts run rampant on automatic. Because we have not learned how to more carefully manage what goes on inside our brains, we remain vulnerable to not only what other people think about us, but also to advertising and/or political manipulation.
~ Unknown
You destroy buildings, fight monsters openly in the streets of the city, work with the police, show up in newspapers, advertise in the phone book, and ride zombie dinosaurs down Michigan Avenue, and think that you work in the shadows? Be reasonable.
~ Jim Butcher
You destroy buildings, fight monsters openly in the streets of the city, work with the police, show up in newspapers, advertise in the phone book, and ride zombie dinosaurs down Michigan Avenue, and think that you work in the shadows?
~ Jim Butcher
I have always believed that writing advertisements is the second most profitable form of writing. The first, of course, is ransom notes." Philip Dusenberry
~ Unknown
Let's face it: in advertising, you are paid more, but you die younger. It's not very forgiving. Like sports stars, you're in it during your better years, and then you're out looking for work.
~ Jerry Della Femina
When advertising your business on the side of your car it's a good idea not to drive like a complete asshole.
~ Unknown
It is not unprofessional to give free legal advice, but advertising that the first visit will be free is a bit like a fox telling chickens he will not bite them until they cross the threshold of the hen house.
~ Unknown
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.
~ Vilhjalmur Stefansson
Publicity is absolutely critical. A good PR story is infinitely more effective than a front page ad.
~ Richard Branson
If I was down to the last dollar of my marketing budget I'd spend it on PR!
~ Bill Gates
As advertising blather becomes the nation's normal idiom, language becomes printed noise.
~ George Will
When we launched the WineLibrary website in 1996, I didn't even own a computer yet. I just understood that there was an opportunity here to market in a different way.
~ Gary Vaynerchuk
People just jump right to, 'We're going to create this really cool thing and put it out there and people are going to magically find it.' You have to market your marketing.
~ C.C. Chapman
I am one who believes that one of the greatest dangers of advertising is not that of misleading people, but that of boring them to death.
~ Leo Burnett