#advertising

Advertising as the printed form of selling would seem... ultimately to be justified in so far as it serves as a means of increasing legitimate human wants, as an agency of fair and economic competition in the distribution of goods, and as a stimulant to social progress. ↗

— Daniel Starch

#agency #competition #distribution #economic #fair

The simplest definition of advertising, and one that will probably meet the test of critical examination, is that advertising is selling in print. ↗

— Daniel Starch

#critical #definition #examination #in print #meet

Magazines and advertising are flogging the idea that you have to keep changing things and get something new. I think that's balls - evil. But obviously that's your livelihood. ↗

— Robin Day

#balls #changing #evil #get #i

There's so much truly putrid advertising out there it's embarrassing. But not all advertising is bad. Some of it is really quite mediocre. ↗

— Jef I. Richards

#bad #embarrassing #mediocre #much #out

...isn't it possible that advertising as a whole is a fantastic fraud, presenting an image of America taken seriously by no one, least of all the advertising men who create it? ↗

— David Riesman

#media #society #change

I warn you against believing that advertising is a science. ↗

— William Bernbach

#against #believing #i #science #warn

The stronger that women grow, the more prestige, fame, and money is accorded to the display professions: They are held higher and higher above the heads of rising women, for them to emulate. ↗

— Naomi Wolf

#beauty #body-image #eating-disorders #self-esteem #society

One the one hand, our economists treat human beings as rational actors making choices to maximize their own economic benefit. On the other hand, the same companies that hire those economists also pay for advertising campaigns that use the raw materials of myth and magic to encourage people to act against their own best interests, whether it's a matter of buying overpriced fizzy sugar water or the much more serious matter of continuing to support the unthinking pursuit of business as usual in the teeth of approaching disaster. ↗

— John Michael Greer

#economics #myth #peak-oil #age

Display advertising and the movies, though they may dull the wits, certainly stimulate the eyes. ↗

— John Dos Passos

#certainly #display #dull #eyes #may

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