It has built a strong name for itself and it’s a very advertising-friendly platform.

Ninety-nine percent of advertising doesn’t sell much of anything.

The schedules are crammed with shows urging us to travel further, drive faster, build bigger, buy more, yet none of them are deemed to offend the rules, which really means that they don’t offend the interests of business or the pampered sensibilities of the Aga class. The media, driven by fear and advertising, are hopelessly...

Publicity, publicity, publicity is the greatest moral factor and force in our public life

Rumfoord had known that Constant would try to debase the picture by using it in commerce. Constant’s father had done a similar thing when he found he could not buy Leonardo’s “Mona Lisa” at any price. The old man had punished Mona Lisa by having her used in an advertising campaign for suppositories. It was...

Health makes good propaganda.

Never,” enjoins a women’s magazine, “mention the size of his [penis] in public…and never, ever let him know that anyone else knows or you may find it shrivels up and disappears, serving you right.” That quotation acknowledges that critical sexual comparison is a direct anaphrodisiac when applied to men; either we do not yet recognize...

All Advertising is essentially a promise of future happiness.

The best advertising for this is spring. Snow melts, the trash is revealed and it is disgusting. And you can’t help but have the urge to get out of your car and pick up that can or bottle, and this is just an organized way to do it safely.

Gatekeepers and people that work in marketing are suckling pigs at the helm of Satan’s phallus. They are the death of art, and ultimately the death of the human spirit.

Many manufacturers secretly question whether advertising really sells their product, but are vaguely afraid that their competitors might steal a march on them if they stopped.

That’s the direction where all advertising is going.

If you accept the existence of advertising, you accept a system designed to persuade and to dominate minds by interfering in people’s thinking patterns. You also accept that the system will be used by the sorts of people who like to influence people and are good at it. No person who did not wish to...

The point is that television does not reveal who the best man is. In fact, television makes impossible the determination of who is better than whom, if we mean by ‘better’ such things as more capable in negotiation, more imaginative in executive skill, more knowledgeable about international affairs, more understanding of the interrelations of economic...

The maturing of a woman who has continued to grow is a beautiful thing to behold.Or, if your ad revenue or your seven-figure salary or your privileged sexual status depend on it, it is an operable condition.

Between Monday and Saturday men make an audience. On Sunday, they make a congregation.

In spite of hopes to the contrary, pornography and mass culture are working to collapse sexuality with rape, reinforcing the patterns of male dominance and female submission so that many young people believe this is simply the way sex it. This means that many of the rapists of the future will believe they are behaving...

Most of the retailers are watching their advertising dollars very carefully. This is not going to be an easy period for retailers but it could be worse. Tax refunds are certainly playing some positive role in consumer spending patterns.

Like a midwife, I make my living bringing new babies into the world, except that mine are new advertising campaigns.

Asked about the power of advertising in research surveys, most agree that it works, but not on them.

Corporate advertising is simply expensive lying dressed up as brainwashing

All of us somehow felt that the next battleground was going to be culture. We all felt somehow that our culture had been stolen from us – by commercial forces, by advertising agencies, by TV broadcasters. It felt like we were no longer singing our songs and telling stories, and generating our culture from the...

Whatever is deeply, essentially female–the life in a woman’s expression, the feel of her flesh, the shape of her breasts, the transformations after childbirth of her skin–is being reclassified as ugly, and ugliness as disease. These qualities are about an intensification of female power, which explains why they are being recast as a diminution of...

As women demanded access to power, the power structure used the beauty myth materially to undermine women’s advancement.

[I]m Internet [ist] Aufmerksamkeit eine echte Ware geworden, die sich bereits im Moment ihrer Entstehung vermarkten lässt.

Advertising has been effective. When we go to conferences, the port is well-known and we are sought out because they have seen our growth.

Nowadays, ads don’t just sell a product. They sell an attitude! Look at this one! Here’s a cool guy saying nobody tells him what to do. He does whatever he wants and he buys this product as a reflection of that independence. So basically, this maverick is urging everyone to express his individuality through conformity...

What really decides consumers to buy or not to buy is the content of your advertising, not its form.

Look at the language. If a scientist delivers the simple, unconditional, absolutely certain statements that politicians and journalists want, he is talking as an activist, not a scientist.

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.

Advertising will get a customer through the door to your business once, but it is service that will keep them coming back. Advertising is aimed at the masses; customer service is aimed at the individual. Service recovery creates word-of-mouth advertising that is 100 times cheaper and more powerful than traditional advertising.

A man is unlikely to be brought within earshot of women as they judge men’s appearance, height, muscle tone, sexual technique, penis size, personal grooming, or taste in clothes–all of which we do. The fact is that women are able to view men just as men view women, as objects for sexual and aesthetic evaluation;...

Spokespeople sell women the Iron Maiden and name her “Health”: if public discourse were really concerned with women’s health, it would turn angrily upon this aspect of the beauty myth.

We wanted to connect with people as strongly as some of our great advertising campaigns of the past did — such as with Beattie with Maureen Lipman or Bob Hoskins in ‘It’s good to talk’ — but in a way that’s relevant to today’s modern relationships.

Advertising markets have remained uncertain and short term in the first quarter … and we are seeing somewhat lower revenues in the early months of 2006.

Ratings are strong, which is good for advertising, but it is being offset by the renegotiation of affiliate fees.

What American would not want truthful and complete information about every product sold in the United States so that we can be more capable of making wise decisions concerning our lives and the lives of our loved ones? These are our friends and our family members suffering from so many forms of cancer, several diseases...

This creates advertising and content on demand in a very easy and relevant way that advertisers can use to push those consumers who are interested in their products to a more intimate relationship.

Advertising expresses a power relationship . . . One person, the advertiser, invades; millions absorb. And to what end? So that people will buy something! A deep, profound and disturbing act by the few against the many for a trivial purpose.

The television commercial has mounted the most serious assault on capitalist ideology since the publication of Das Kapital. To understand why, we must remind ourselves that capitalism, like science and liberal democracy, was an outgrowth of the Enlightenment. Its principal theorists, even its most prosperous practitioners, believed capitalism to be based on the idea that...

Self-denial can lock women into a smug and critical condescension to other, less devout women.According to Appel, cult members develop…”an attitude of moral superiority, a contempt for secular laws, rigidity of thought, and the diminution of regard for the individual.” A premium is placed on conformity to the cult group; deviation is penalized. “Beauty” is...

You’re advertising that you are a victim.

Fourth quarter ad pages are currently expected to double, and advertising commitments for 2006 are very strong,

There’s an ad for every vice. That’s advice.

Managing an advertising agency isn’t all beer and skittles. After fourteen years of it, I have come to the conclusion that the top man has one principle responsibility: to provide an atmosphere in which creative mavericks can do useful work.

Marketing is what you do when your product is no good.

With money spent on incentives, you can see results immediately. Advertising effectiveness is a much bigger question mark. I think you have seen a marketing budget realignment, with more money going toward incentives rather than advertising.

In the Soviet Union you weren’t allowed to speak out against the government. In the US you cannot speak out against sponsors.

The Victorian woman became her ovaries, as today’s woman has become her “beauty.

The surgeons’ market is imaginary, since there is nothing wrong with women’s faces or bodies that social change won’t cure; so the surgeons depend for their income on warping female self-perception and multiplying female self-hatred.