News is something somebody doesn’t want printed; all else is advertising.

I think it all comes down to Wal-Mart’s aggressive advertising campaign, … They are being much louder with their campaign, and I think they’ve done a good job of stealing the ‘early-bird’ holiday shoppers.

Any fool can write a bad advertisement, but it takes a genius to keep his hands off a good one.

Companies certainly back out [of advertising] when they feel their message won’t resonate with customers or the media.

In a culture that is becoming ever more story-stupid, in which a representative of the Coca-Cola company can, with a straight face, pronounce, as he donates a collection of archival Coca-Cola commercials to the Library...

As the wall between advertising and content erodes, the aptitude required to understand the functions and design of media content becomes more complex.

Women who love themselves are threatening; but men who love real women, more so.

She may resent Playboy because she resents feeling ugly in sex–or, if “beautiful,” her body defined and diminished by pornography. It inhibits in her something she needs to live, and gives her the ultimate anaphrodisiac:...

A celebrity’s body is an advertiser’s canvas.

Cable television is more of a recognized medium and a very good advertising vehicle. It took it a long time to be recognized as such. Internet advertising is getting there faster.

Banner advertising for us is extremely important.

Every advertisement should be thought of as a contribution to the complex symbol which is the brand image.

The superior man understands what is right; the inferior man understands what will sell.

If nonsatiety were the natural state of human nature then aggressive want-stimulating advertising would not be necessary, nor would the barrage of novelty aimed at promoting dissatisfaction with last year’s model. The system attempts to...

In Hollywood, an equitable divorce settlement means each party getting fifty percent of publicity.

What are other women really thinking, feeling, experiencing, when they slip away from the gaze and culture of men?

The stronger that women grow, the more prestige, fame, and money is accorded to the display professions: They are held higher and higher above the heads of rising women, for them to emulate.

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.

Social media takes time and careful, strategic thought. It doesn’t happen by accident.

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.