advertising on Television

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...

Have you noticed the ever-increasing arm of advertising in our lives? According to a New York Times article, supermarket eggs have begun to be stamped by CBS television shows, turnstiles in subways ar...

What the advertiser needs to know is not what is right about the product but what is wrong about the buyer. And so, the balance of business expenditures shifts from product research to market research...

Advertisements contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper.

Advertising is the greatest art form of the twentieth century.

It's in our biology to trust what we see with our eyes. This makes living in a carefully edited, overproduced and photoshopped world very dangerous.

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.

Brands are the new religion.

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

Many a small thing has been made large by the right kind of advertising.

Advertisements in a newspaper are more full of knowledge in respect to what is going on in a community than the editorial columns are.

Advertising in the final analysis should be news. If it is not news it is worthless.

Civilization is a limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities.

Advertising is literally an attempt to monetize our restlessness.

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

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

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...

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

The distance between rationality and advertising is now so wide that it is difficult to remember that there once existed a connection between them.”

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.

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...

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...

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 ...

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

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.

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...

Advertising - A judicious mixture of flattery and threats.

“Of course, there is some truth in advertising. There's yeast in bread, but you can't make bread with yeast alone. Truth in advertising,” announced Lord Peter sententiously, “is like leaven, w...

The best advertising is done by satisfied customers.

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