advertising on Instant Gratification

Television screens saturated with commercials promote the utopian and childish idea that all problems have fast, simple, and technological solutions. You must banish from your mind the naive but commo...

Advertising is literally an attempt to monetize our restlessness.

We must shift America from a needs to a desires culture…. People must be trained to desire, to want new things, even before the old have been entirely consumed. We must shape a new mentality. Man’s de...

Civilization is a limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities.

...You are excused from doing the work of constructing the fantasy. The ads do it for you. The ads, therefore, don’t flatter your adult agency, or even ignore it—they supplant it.

“It did what all ads are supposed to do: create an anxiety relievable by purchase.”

When an online service is free, you're not the customer. You're the product.

Don Draper: This is the greatest advertising opportunity since the invention of cereal. We have six identical companies making six identical products. We can say anything we want. How do you make your...

In this post-truth world, any marketing BS seems tolerable.

Ikea: We throw in extra parts just to mess with you. Lays: Flavored Air Maybelline: Maybe it’s Photoshop Wikipedia: You’re Welcome, College Students Perrier: Rich People Water Bic: You Probably D...

We grew up founding our dreams on the infinite promise of American advertising. I still believe that one can learn to play the piano by mail and that mud will give you a perfect complexion.

Promise, large promise, is the soul of an advertisement.

Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get money from it.

The incessant witless repetition of advertisers' moron-fodder has become so much a part of life that, if we are not careful, we forget to be insulted by it.

Advertising is the modern substitute for argument; its function is to make the worse appear the better.

The influence of the familiar on our lives is something that advertisers never forget. The point of advertising is to capitalize on real needs or to create needs and then to provide a product to fill ...

Advertising - A judicious mixture of flattery and threats.

We are surrounded by hundreds, thousands of messages every day that link our deepest emotions to products that objectify people and trivialize our most heartfelt moments and relationships. Every emoti...

I once heard a sermon that compared believers to commercials for God. “And God doesn’t need any bad commercials,” I remember the preacher saying. It stuck with me, and from then on I often made decisi...

Time spent in the advertising business seems to create a permanent deformity like the Chinese habit of foot-binding.

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

Now today, with increased opportunity for personal-data collection via technology, target marketing has allowed sellers to become even more effective. No longer do they know just our age, gender, and...

Original Sin has great marketing potential.

Ads sell a great deal more than products. They sell values, images, and concepts of success and worth.”

History will see advertising as one of the real evil things of our time. It is stimulating people constantly to want things, want this, want that.

The best advertising is done by satisfied customers.

Brands are the new religion.

The advertiser is the over rewarded court jester and court pander at the democratic court.

Advertising is the greatest art form of the twentieth century.

The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society. Those who manipulate this unseen mechanism of society const...