Quotes About Advertising

At some point, I'll do more McDonald's commercials if I have to.

Sometimes when I'm reading a script, I can't quite believe that this is going on television alongside cereal commercials.

I learned about making films by going into advertising, making commercials.

There was a time when I never would have considered, ever, doing television commercials for records. I would never do that. That was something that you did for K-Mart.

I do many commercials. All of them are interesting in their own ways.

I never did commercials. Not that I didn't want to, but because I can't. I am just so bad at it.

When you're growing up you always like the commercials of the guys on the screen that you like watching.

Is this why I don't get commercials? Because there's a bargain basement Brian Quinn out there, riding around undercutting me?

The big companies are like, It's so good but we don't know how to market it.

The last bastion of competitiveness is local advertising sales. There's little being spent by local advertisers on the Internet. That's where local media have leverage.

You find a lot of ideas from my shows in adverts now. I find it a compliment.

Studies indicate that these children are more susceptible to advertising and even less likely to understand the purpose of this advertising.

Facebook and Myspace are the U.S. audience, which is tried and true when it comes to being susceptible to ads.

Somehow it did not occur to us that, in a developed democracy, regular media advertising could turn out to be a suspicious and harmful activity.

One thing we didn't know in 1996 is that it's very, very difficult, if not impossible, to sustain a culture with online advertising.

Ads sway kids' preferences. Star athletes spokespeople sway kids' preference.

You can feel how much money goes into commercials by how swiftly they act on your mind. And they've got, like, a hypnotic quality to the way they present their products.

When the Mac ad campaign was in full swing, I quickened my pace as I went past certain bus stops. My wife told me that she loyally took a piece of chewing gum off my nose once.

When I got back to Madison Avenue, I realized that copywriters made more than artists, so I switched.

It's hard when something's bigged up because you want people to watch it, so you have to promote it. It'd be great if it was the old-fashioned days when there was no press, and you just switched on and thought, 'Oh, God, what's going on?'

My first job in advertising was actually in the mailroom of Grey Advertising in Sydney.

Every advertisement should be thought of as a contribution to the complex symbol which is the brand image.

Red Interactive, the digital advertising agency, is a real, systemic kind of business, as opposed to a one-off thing. We can help advertisers frustrated by old media find clients they can work with.

Compare subliminal advertising to something just as cunning. If you want people to lose weight, one effective strategy is to put mirrors in the cafeteria.