advertising on The Internet

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

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...

You might have heard the story about the dog food company. They launched a new line of dog food, stocking it on shelves nationwide, but it didn’t sell well at all. Sales plummeted and the leadership d...

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...

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...

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...

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.

Advertising is the greatest art form of the twentieth century.

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

Advertising as we now know it started not on Madison Avenue but in another city: Berlin. With another group of power brokers: the Nazis. They took the ideas of an Austrian psychotherapist named Freud,...

Brands are the new religion.

Advertising is literally an attempt to monetize our restlessness.

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...

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

Civilization is a limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities.

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

The best advertising is done by satisfied customers.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

...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.

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

Advertising - A judicious mixture of flattery and threats.