Quotes About Advertising

When someone hands you a flyer, it's like they're saying here you throw this away.

Tony the Tiger usually thinks that stuff is great.

Can somebody explain to me why Pepsi and Coke advertise? Are we missing something? Seriously, everyone in this room has drank enough Pepsi and Coke in their lifetime they could piss it for a week.

The vice-president of an advertising agency is a bit of executive fungus that forms on a desk that has been exposed to conference.

I saw a commercial for the maxi pads for the bigger gals they're making now. That was a nice visual while I was eating.

XM radio doesn't have commercials, so after about thirty minutes of listening to it, I'm like, "What should I buy?"

That woman in the shampoo commercial - she's happy. She's... she's too happy.

I have a few business ideas (that I'm going to advertise in High Times, amongst other places), and one of them is a service in which I offer to eat and describe pork to kosher people.

Wisdom of the Ages: "Look out Below!" Air Asia's catchy new advertising slogan.

Toy Story 3 is so besotted with brand names and product-placement that it stops being about the innocent pleasures of imagination -- the usefulness of toys -- and strictly celebrates consumerism.

Funding a civilization through advertising is like trying to get nutrition by connecting a tube from one's anus to one's mouth.

What sells a book sells a book, same in traditional or self-publishing. You gotta shake your tail feathers.

In advertising an idea, results from a new combination of specific knowledge about. products and people, will general knowledge about life and events.

He clicked through a dozen of them until he found a picture of a dark, curly haired woman, ample, smiling, appearing much younger than sixty, so familiar-looking that he was immediately attracted to her simply because he found familiarity, rare these days, so comforting. He opened her ad and realized he was staring at a picture of his wife,

People think copywriters are obsessed with words. This isn't correct. The word should be 'infatuated' - it fits the context better.

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.

Advertisers are not thinking radically enough - they look for technology to lead instead of trying the neuroscience approach and thinking about what parts of the brain haven't been activated before. These new experiences bring new capabilities to the brain.

Press Releases are spam

A strong stand is how you attract superfans. They point to you and defend you. And they spread the word further, wider, and more passionately than any advertising could. Strong opinions aren't free. You'll turn some people off. They'll accuse you of being arrogant and aloof. That's life. For everyone who loves you, there will be others who hate you.

You can't paint over a bad experience with good advertising or marketing.

Look at Craigslist, which demolished the traditional classified-ad business. With just a few dozen employees, the company generates tens of millions in revenue, has one of the most popular sites on the Internet, and disrupted the entire newspaper business.

A lot of companies post help-wanted ads seeking "rock stars" or "ninjas." Lame. Unless your workplace is filled with groupies and throwing stars, these words have nothing to do with your business.

A strong stand is how you attract superfans. They point to you and defend you. And they spread the word further, wider, and more passionately than any advertising could.

So long as there's a jingle in your head, television isn't free.