Quotes About Advertising

advertisement ... has brought our disregard for truth into the open without even a figleaf to cover it.

We should all reevaluate advertising that contradicts what we know to be the truth; especially when the ads are harmfully manipulative.

Our job if I can see straight and hear clearly and understand ~ is to make advertising and run advertising that is seen and read and heard ~ and remembered ~ for its reasonable and compelling truth.

The plain truth is that the only consistent theme in advertising is the absence of any consistent theme.

I will commend the Democrats for one thing. If they name Keith Ellison as the head of the DNC, then I'll commend them for truth in advertising.

This is the truth about mainstream media and advertising: People wouldn't have to pay to show you such messages if they were right.

You're advertising the fact that there's a community here—it's not just this industry that's manufacturing bands, it's a happening scene where people are feeding off each other.

Eukko tarjoilee jättiläiselle härän. Kokonaisen härän. Jättiläinen: Hmm. Maistuu ihan tavalliselta härältä minun suussani. Eukko: Jos minä en sitten enää hanki tätä sorttia. Jättiläinen: Ei tavallisessa härässä ole mitään vikaa. Eukko: Niin, mutta pieni vaihtelu silloin tällöin... Jättiläinen: Sinä olet mainoksen uhri.

Recession, advertising slow-downs, media spin-offs, procurement department investigations, client globalization initiatives, fee-based remuneration schemes and holding company ownership added significant complexity to ad agency operations by 1990. The simplicity of the Golden Age and the Creative Revolution was long gone, whether recognized or not.

The cozy relationship between chief executives and advertising agencies had unravelled, as other strategic advisers like investment bankers and strategic management consultants jumped to the head of the queue. The

Shareholder value became, from the 1990s onwards, a driver of management consulting success and, somewhat sadly, of advertising agency marginalization.

The real agency problem resides in the C-suite of ad agencies, and it is to the C-suite that we must turn to find leadership for the required changes. This won't happen unless agency CEOs finally admit that poor pricing is the fundamental problem that must be solved. Agency CEOs have the responsibility to solve the price problem. It's time to get started.

Ad agencies continue to believe that improved creativity is the answer for agency and client problems.

Yet as a general rule it's a whole lot easier to slap a health claim on a box of sugary cereal than on a raw potato or a carrot, with the perverse result that the most healthful foods in the supermarket sit there quietly in the produce section, silent as stroke victims, while a few aisles over in Cereal the Cocoa Puffs and Lucky Charms are screaming their newfound whole-grain goodness to the rafters.

Watch out for those health claims.

It is very much in the interest of the food industry to exacerbate our anxieties about what to eat, the better to then assuage them with new products.

Most women's magazines simply try to mold women into bigger and better consumers.

I made quite a lot of money in commercials and I decided when I got out of school to take singing lessons so I could get into singing commercials, too.

Oh, I think Janie Bryant is a genius. I mean, I think she changed menswear almost single-handedly with what she did on 'Mad Men.'

In this industry, people want a 'yes sir' attitude. But ad men usually have a chip on their shoulders. We have more money and are more successful. We call everyone by the first name. My assistants call me Vivek but I don't care.

My concern is the really great concepts that are features, not companies. There isn't enough advertising to support all those features, and in compression times, advertisers tend to flock to safe names and sites that have real traction.

I came in as an engineer and worked on artificial intelligence at Google. I worked on related sites and matching advertising to queries with some of our earliest ads.

I came into the advertising business in 1952, at the age of sixteen, as a delivery boy for a stuffy, old-line advertising agency named Ruthruff and Ryan, which could have served as the setting for the 'Mad Men' television series without moving a desk.

For so long advertising hasn't been inclusive when it comes to plus sizes which is crazy to me.