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Quotes About Advertising

Everything is designed to help you sell out.
~ Patrick Swayze
I have done a Hamburger Helper commercial, a Hardees commercial, a McDonalds commercial. American Express commercial.
~ Luke Benward
Peyton Manning is funny, hence the 'Saturday Night Live'; you see him in his commercials. He's funny.
~ Shannon Sharpe
Just advertising departments with legs and high heels.
~ Richard Avedon
All the papers that matter live off their advertisements, and the advertisers exercise an indirect censorship over news.
~ George Orwell
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.
~ George Orwell
Central to the concept of word of mouth is the idea that the producer of the product does not control the information, which is, accordingly, presumed to be more free of bias, more relevant, more complete, more trustworthy, and thus more accurate than commercial information. Commercial communication or advocacy, such as advertising, is, in contrast, information from a source that has a vested interest in presenting the information in a particular way. Word of mouth and traditional advertising
~ George Silverman
Je me souviens de Dop Dop Dop, adoptez le shampooing Dop. (Je me souviens, 1978)
~ Georges Perec
Naquel mundo que era o seu, era case obrigatoria desexar sempre máis do que se podería adquirir. Non eran eles quen o decretaran; era unha lei da civilización, unha situación de feito, da cal a publicidade en xeral, os grandes almacéns, a arte dos escaparates, o espectáculo da rúa, e mesmo, en certa medida, o conxunto das produccións comunmente chamadas culturais, eran as expresións máis fidedignas.
~ Georges Perec
People don't understand the logistics of advertising. To have the ads purchased and run, you need to have a series of products that work together.
~ Susan Wojcicki
I worked for some of the major productions and did many jingles and voiceovers.
~ Dalip Tahil
The true end users of Facebook are the marketers who want to reach and influence us. They are Facebook's paying customers; we are the product. And we are its workers. The countless hours that we - and the young, particularly - spend on our profiles are the unpaid labor on which Facebook justifies its stock valuation.
~ Douglas Rushkoff
When I see stimulus money being used to attack American companies and American workers, I think it would be very unsettling to be working on the assembly line of Coca Cola, look up, and see an ad that's trying to hurt the very job that you make your wages and pay taxes from.
~ Scott DesJarlais
I initially wanted to work in the music industry more on the A&R side. While I was in school, I began working in the New Business department of an advertising firm, and very quickly I was responsible for roughly 70% of their business, so you could say I had a natural knack for the advertising world.
~ Adam Kluger
Advertising works most effectively when it's in line with what people are already trying to do. And people are trying to communicate in a certain way on Facebook - they share information with their friends, they learn about what their friends are doing - so there's really a whole new opportunity for a new type of advertising model within that.
~ Mark Zuckerberg
Doing jersey advertising for the World Cup is not in the same universe as putting advertising on NHL sweaters.
~ Gary Bettman
Apart from World Cup merchandising, television companies and game-specific advertising, you see restaurants and bars working overtime to drag people into their eateries with the lure of large projection screens and special World Cup menus.
~ Sucheta Dalal
My mum was an advertising professional till she had me and my dad is a surgeon and is the director of Bhatia Hospital.
~ Amyra Dastur
Since I was 8 months old, till I was 12, I did commercials and ads and cute little stuff for kids. Then I had braces on my teeth. They took them off when I was 16, and then I started modeling more seriously and doing more fashion.
~ Bar Refaeli
For any company whose business model is advertising, or engagement-based advertising, meaning they care about the amount of time someone spends on the product, they make more money the more time people spend.
~ Tristan Harris
If you're a content creator looking to elicit a certain emotion, we can validate that. In cases where an ad is trying to elicit humor, we can tell you if people get the jokes or not by the number of people who smile, the intensity of the smile, and the timing of the smile.
~ Rana el Kaliouby
New online formats gutted the newspaper-ad business. Why pore over tiny print looking for a job in the want ads when you can tap a few keywords into monster.com, then click through and apply? Why pay a steep per-character rate for a classified when you can hawk a whole garage full of used stuff on EBay or Craigslist for free?
~ Nathan Myhrvold
Advertising is the art of the tiny. You have to tell a complete a story and deliver a complete message in a very encapsulated form. It disciplines you to cut away extraneous information.
~ Dick Wolf
I'm not allowed to buy advertising for my book '50 Things Liberals Love to Hate' on Facebook because, according to their representative, they have received complaints about the word 'hate' in my book title.
~ Mike Gallagher