Quotes About Advertising

To people who make moving ads that block the view of websites: Not only will we not buy from you, but we want shrews to eat your liver.

Advertising gets such a bashing from the world. At parties you are always asked, 'Aren't you just selling people things they don't want?

Marketers want to get their messages in front of you. They must get their messages in front of you, just to survive. The only problem is-do you really want more marketing messages?

People are social beings and want interaction and social learning is the primary form of learning, just as word of mouth advertising is the highest form of advertising.

When you think about advertisements, it makes sense that they want to hold and retain our attention.

One cannot sell anything to a satisfied man. Ergo, make him want something new, or take away something that he has and then sell him something to take its place.

The tools I learned photographing celebrities, now I want to use them to sell ideas.

If you, my fellow copywriters or art directors, want to win the award, devote your genius to making the cash register ring.

Advertisers use sophisticated psychological methods to manipulate our desires, thoughts, and behaviors. The goal is to create a need where none previously existed, or to amplify a need.

if you're not the customer, you're the product

When computers are sold like toasters, programs will be sold like toothpaste.

The system enforced Google's insistence that advertising shouldn't be a transaction between publisher and advertiser but a three-way relationship that also included the user.

A product can be differentiated from the competition by creative advertising and promotion, even if competing products are physically identical.

Goal setting is paramount in developing a promotional campaign.

Today I met with a subliminal advertising executive for just a second.

I was in a grocery store. I saw a sign that said 'pet supplies.' So I did. Then I went outside and saw a sign that said, 'Compact cars.

I saw a subliminal advertising executive, but only for a second.

I went on to being an Ivory Soap baby for television commercials, and for three years, I sat in a bathtub and said either, 'And it floats,' or 'Get some today.'

The idea that you must bathe every day is, to a certain extent, a manufacture on the part of the soap industry.

In the early 19th century, they tried selling soap as healthy. No one bought it. They tried selling it as sexy, and everyone bought it.

I started with commercials - for shampoo, pancakes, insurance, Volvo. I did a Lux soap commercial with Sarah Jessica Parker. And I got a role in an indie film called 'Satellite' that did well in festivals.

You have Showtime, you have AMC, you have all of these, you know, incredible networks that are now bringing forth their product without the handcuffs, if you will, of trying to sell soap to the entire country.

I've turned down soap and deodorant commercials - it wasn't my route.

I made films for soaps and I was the Coca-Cola girl for England. I did a lot popular films, too.