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Advertising Quotes

I don’t want to kill ads. I think advertising is great, and I’m very aware that there’s multiple revenue streams in television, subscription and advertising. But I also don’t want to put my head in the sand, and I think the world is changing.

– Charlie Ergen

Advertising people who ignore research are as dangerous as generals who ignore decodes of enemy signals.

– David Ogilvy

Client companies and advertising agencies are old-world-order places. The systems and processes and structures come from a time when you shot the TV commercial, then you did the print ads, then you did everything else – including the website. Everything has changed, but the systems haven’t.

– Cindy Gallop

If you ever have the good fortune to create a great advertising campaign, you will soon see another agency steal it. This is irritating, but don’t let it worry you; nobody has ever built a brand by imitating somebody else’s advertising.

– David Ogilvy

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

Advertising is only evil when it advertises evil things.

– David Ogilvy

I’ve always been scared of advertising folk. I’ve met them at parties and I’ve been to their offices and I’ve always found them intimidatingly cool. At one company I visited, they held their meetings in a caravan that had somehow been installed in the place, a rather more exotic place to gather than the typical BBC glass box.

– Evan Davis

If somebody says to you, ‘MTV,’ you think of Mick Jagger on a phone screaming at that phone: ‘I want my MTV.’ That, to me, was always the epitome of great advertising.

– George Lois

The only prejudice I’ve found anywhere in TV is in some advertising agencies, and there isn’t so much prejudice as just fear.

– Nat King Cole

The advertising world had space men in it before spacemen existed.

– Fred Allen

The chief characteristic of ‘The Tribune’ under Greeley was an aggressive and even ostentatious purity. ‘Immoral and degrading police reports,’ and any notices of the existence of the theater, whether in news or advertising, were at first scrupulously excluded.

– Elmer Davis

When it went on the air, the sales department hated it. It was the highest advertising pullout show in the history of NBC. At the early focus groups, people were saying, ‘Who are these people? Why should we watch them?

– Dick Wolf

I’m Phil Knight, and I don’t believe in advertising.

– Phil Knight

‘Be comfortable with who you are’, reads the headline on the Hush Puppies poster. Are they mad? If people were comfortable with who they were, they’d never buy any products except the ones they needed, and then where would the advertising industry be?

– Charles Edwards

Online advertising is display plus search.

– David Filo

Lyin’ Ted Cruz just used a picture of Melania from a shoot in his ad. Be careful, Lyin’ Ted, or I will spill the beans on your wife!

– Donald Trump

Tutoring follows the lucrative philosophy of advertising: if you can manufacture a need, people with disposable resources will find ways to fill it.

– Eliot Schrefer

The more informative your advertising, the more persuasive it will be.

– David Ogilvy

The online musical universe has become Balkanized, with many sites focusing on minute niches. That works well for reaching very specific demographics, which is wonderful for advertising, but it flies in the face of the common wisdom that people’s tastes have become more diverse as music of any description has become a mouse-click away.

– Michael Azerrad

It is flagrantly dishonest for an advertising agent to urge consumers to buy a product which he would not allow his own wife to buy.

– David Ogilvy

Television is more of a business. You can’t take as many risks, because there’s so many channels now, and the advertising’s dropping.

– Dana Delany

The world is changing… I don’t, as a consumer, want advertising that’s not relevant. If we’re going to take a side, let’s take the side of the consumer.

– Charlie Ergen

A decade in advertising exposed me to plenty of schemers and backstabbers. But honestly, advertising is wonderful training for fiction. Writing novels is much easier if you’ve ever tried to write a billboard.

– Marcus Sakey

Mass consumption, advertising, and mass art are a corporate Frankenstein; while they reinforce the system, they also undermine it.

– Ellen Willis

I always say it took me 10 minutes to write ‘Cars,’ but if I am honest it could have been even less than that – and it has been a really successful song over the years. It is still massively used, in advertising, in films, and people do cover versions of it a lot.

– Gary Numan

Radio continues to be the very best advertising music performers have. No one who ever grabbed a Grammy got there without radio.

– Gordon Smith

Poetry is a street fighter. It has sharp elbows. It can look after itself. Poetry can’t be used for manipulation; it’s why you never see good poetry in advertising.

– David Whyte

American culture is probably the least Christian culture that we’ve ever had because it is so materialistic and it’s so full of lies. The whole advertising world is just, it’s just intertwined with lies, appealing to the worst of the instincts we have.

– Eugene H. Peterson

It is very likely that many firms spend more on advertising than, for their own best interests, they should.

– Michael Schudson

Originally in the United States, there were no laws regulating behavioral advertising. As a result, like in the Philippines, government has relied on industry self-regulation.

– Miriam Defensor-Santiago

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