#advertising

I do not regard advertising as entertainment or an art form, but as a medium of information. ↗

— David Ogilvy

#art #art form #entertainment #form #i

Some manufacturers illustrate their advertisements with abstract paintings. I would only do this if I wished to conceal from the reader what I was advertising. ↗

— David Ogilvy

#advertising #conceal #i #illustrate #manufacturers

Advertising is the rattling of a stick inside a swill bucket. ↗

— George Orwell

#bucket #inside #rattling #stick

Now with the Internet, a celebrity is fair game, and it's all designed to sell advertising space. ↗

— Randy Quaid

#celebrity #designed #fair #fair game #game

Advertising is the art of convincing people to spend money they don't have for something they don't need. ↗

— Will Rogers

#art #convincing #money #need #people

Let advertisers spend the same amount of money improving their product that they do on advertising and they wouldn't have to advertise it. ↗

— Will Rogers

#advertising #amount #improving #money #product

I had been keeping an off eye on the advertising field, thinking I might become an idea man and a copywriter. ↗

— Carl Sandburg

#become #been #eye #field #had

And it's interesting, when you look at the predictions made during the peak of the boom in the 1990s, about e-commerce, or internet traffic, or broadband adoption, or internet advertising, they were all right - they were just wrong in time. ↗

— Chris Anderson

#adoption #advertising #boom #broadband #during

The last thing the consumer index wants men and women to do is to figure out how to love one another: The $1.5 trillion retail-sales industry depends on sexual estrangement between men and women, and is fueled by sexual dissatisfaction. Ads do not sell sex--that would be counterproductive, if it meant that heterosexual women and men turned to one another and were gratified. What they sell is sexual discontent. ↗

— Naomi Wolf

#eating-disorders #feminism #self-esteem #society #beauty

But in terms of the code by which we go to market - it's not telling kids to supersize, we're not selling them, generally, products, in the advertising we do to them. ↗

— Jim Cantalupo

#code #generally #go #kids #market