Quotes About Advertising

Worth noting: Statin drugs can sometimes raise Lp(a) levels! This is mentioned on the warning labels of statin drug ads in the Canadian edition of the New England Journal of Medicine, but such labeling is not required by the Food and Drug Administration, so you won't see it in ads published in the United States.7

You can use words to manipulate the world into delivering what you want. This is what it means to "act politically." This is spin. It's the specialty of unscrupulous marketers, salesmen, advertisers, pickup artists, slogan-possessed utopians and psychopaths

growth hacking creates a product that will market itself.

a touring burlesque show was still advertising for chorus girls, and specifying that no girl under 150 pounds need apply.

You can fool all the people all the time if the advertising is right and the budget is big enough.

If you had to give a child just one piece of advice upon entering a shopping mall, a good suggestion might be "Remember that everything—and by that I mean everything—is a trick to take your money.

Advertising is a tax paid for being unremarkable.*" If that is true, then this tax is rising fast, which is good news for the government—not to mention production companies, media sellers, and agencies—

The four Ps (Product, Price, Place, and Promotion) have been updated with a new model: the six C's of Content, Commerce, Community, Context, Customization, and Conversation.

Avinash Kaushik refers to much of media communications as "faith-based initiatives." In other words, they are often futile attempts to bridge the vast chasm between the two ends of the funnel - exposure and conversion... (p. 5)

It seems to me / the the great bards of the 20th century are in Publicity / those Keatses and Shelleys singing the Colgate smile / Cosmic Coca-Cola, the pause the refreshes, / the make of car that will take us to the land of happiness.

We live in a funny time. If you don't go corporate, you can't compete. You're relegated as irrelevant. People used to admire that.

I've always been scared of advertising folk. I've met them at parties and I've been to their offices and I've always found them intimidatingly cool. At one company I visited, they held their meetings in a caravan that had somehow been installed in the place, a rather more exotic place to gather than the typical BBC glass box.

If you don't have a basic spend on marketing, there is no point releasing the film in theatres.

Today, filmmaking isn't just about shooting and releasing. You've to structure the marketing of a film.

Broadcasting keeps you relevant.

Advertisers really want to create ads that are relevant to the realtime experience.

The ingredients for great advertising haven't changed since the 'Mad Men' era: Brands win if their advertising is relevant and people like it.

I love traditional advertising and have built my career on it. However, I think that is one option, not the only option. If some of it ends up in that space, fine, so long as it does so because it's relevant to the desired outcome.

American advertisers rely on 'essentially illogical' approaches to determine their advertising budgets.

The reason advertising is governed by fear, after all, is that most agencies rely on just a few clients to bring in the lion's share of their revenues.

I remember when Meryl Streep did an ad for American Express, the press harassed her.

For a while every commercial was a dancing one. Remember when girls were dancing around salt and coffee cans?

With all my outside activities, I have to remind people I am really in advertising.

I'm not against a new band doing commercials to pay the rent.