In our newspaper segment we reported advertising gains at our U.S. community newspapers, particularly in classified employment and real estate while auto remained soft.

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.

I have always understood that money made in the patent medicine business is a practical bar to social success.

You’re only as good as your next idea. And if you can’t agree on that, then it’s time to walk.

Once a culture becomes entirely advertising friendly, it seizes to be a culture at all.

This gives our clients exposure beyond just search advertising.

Prostitutes are paid for taking their clothes off. Celebrities are paid for putting others’ clothes on.

You don’t sell the product, you sell the philosophy. When you sell a product, you have customers, when you sell a philosophy, you have believers.

Advertising degrades the people it appeals to; it deprives them of their will to choose.

Never stop testing, and your advertising will never stop improving.

[Not surprisingly, those first two years fell flat.] I made plenty of mistakes, … Mostly about where to spend advertising money. I bought too many keywords. There were many search engines offering keyword buys that...

A company with no advertising is like a car with no headlights—it runs smoothly during the day, when people are awake and shopping, and saves money at night, when people are asleep.

If the prime real estate is turned over to an advertiser – and there is no mention that this is advertising – that’s a significant problem.

Sadly, the signals that allow men and women to find the partners who most please them are scrambled by the sexual insecurity initiated by beauty thinking. A woman who is self-conscious can’t relax to let...

Healthy” and “diseased,” as Susan Sontag points out…are often subjective judgments that society makes for its own purposes. Women have long been defined as sick as a means of subjecting them to social control.

There is a serious decline in the overall amount of advertising that’s going to be spent overall. We’re seeing it across the board.

The most truthful part of a newspaper is the advertisements

Here’s to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They’re not fond of rules. And they have no respect for...

There is no need for advertisements to look like advertisements. If you make them look like editorial pages, you will attract about 50 per cent more readers.

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

The envied are like bureaucrats; the more impersonal they are, the greater the illusion (for themselves and for others) of their power.

We found that if there was more advertising in a market there was more youth drinking.

Our society does reward beauty on the outside over health on the inside. Women must not be blamed for choosing short-term beauty ‘fixes’ that harm our long-term health, since our life spans are inverted under...

Why does the social order feel the need to defend itself by evading the fact of real women, our faces and voices and bodies, and reducing the meaning of women to these formulaic and endlessly...

Do billboard salesmen record their sales on charts? If so, who’s at the top of the billboard charts for billboard sales?

For your business to stand out and succeed, you have to put a primary focus on the social media space, go in big (halfway will not do), and do it better than most, right from...

Gillette–The best a man can get.”I stared at the screen. What happened to me? I was meant to be one of those guys, vigorous and athletic and successful and, most of all, American. I was...

Remove advertising, disable a person or firm from proclaiming its wares and their merits, and the whole of society and of the economy is transformed. The enemies of advertising are the enemies of freedom.

Advertising has done more to cause the social unrest of the 20th century than any other single factor.

Better to be known for something than be forgotten for nothing.

The ads are particularly interesting. People don’t realize the tremendous amount of history in advertising.

Cosmetic surgery processes the bodies of woman-made women, who make up the vast majority of its patient pool, into man-made women.

Needs are imposed by nature. Wants are sold by society.

Michael Jordan and Tiger Woods are really part of a very big advertising program, and the fact that they make so much money is because the markets have dictated that they get that money, and...

Our advertising partnership with Allegiant Air is a natural fit for us. Branding encompasses everything from good customer service to strategic advertising positioning and targeting. This in-air branding exercise will allow us to target a...

Most agencies run scared, most of the time… Frightened people are powerless to produce good advertising…If I were a client, I would do everything in my power to emancipate my agencies from fear, even to...

I always hear parents talking about how outraged they are because their kid saw a boob or something like that on TV. I never hear anyone say that they’re outraged because a cartoon character in...

It is really not so repulsive to see the poor asking for money as to see the rich asking for more money. And advertisement is the rich asking for more money.

The Best Marketing Is Education!

Men are visually aroused by women’s bodies and less sensitive to their arousal by women’s personalities because they are trained early into that response, while women are less visually aroused and more emotionally aroused because...

As soon as a woman’s primary social value could no longer be defined as the attainment of virtuous domesticity, the beauty myth redefined it as the attainment of virtuous beauty. It did so to substitute...

aesthetic isn’t simply about good design for good design’s sake.

Online advertising is a whole new world, and there are some opportunists out there who take advantage of loosely based arrangements. It’s a problem for the whole industry. We have very open ears and very...

You could write the best book in the world but if nobody knows about it, it is nothing

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

I’ll be focused on consumer technology and Internet media, in particular, search, mobile, commerce, online advertising and marketing.

The media network has its idols, but its principal idol is its own style which generates an aura of winning and leaves the rest in darkness. It recognizes neither pity nor pitilessness.

The results also contradict claims that advertising is unrelated to youth drinking amounts: that advertising at best causes brand switching, only affects those older than the legal drinking age or is effectively countered by current...

What editors are obliged to appear to say that men want from women is actually what their advertisers want from women.

Where woman do not fit the Iron Maiden [societal expectations/assumptions about women’s bodies], we are now being called monstrous, and the Iron Maiden is exactly that which no woman fits, or fits forever. A woman...