advertising on Tradition

Why a story? We all think of our lives as stories, each with a main character (us) theme, and plot (interesteing so far, but as yet unfinished). We also love to hear stories about others and even abou...

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 ...

Brands are the new religion.

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.

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

On his hundredth birthday, a reporter asked the man the inevitable question: “What do you attribute your long life to?” The old man replied, “I haven’t decided yet. I’m still negotiating with a supple...

Civilization is a limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities.

You can tell the ideals of a nation by its advertisements.

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...

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

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.

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

Advertising - A judicious mixture of flattery and threats.

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.

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

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...

Advertising is the greatest art form of the twentieth century.

“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...

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

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...

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...

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

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 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.

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

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

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...

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...

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

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