If advertising had a little more respect for the public, the public would have a lot more respect for advertising.
As a child, I wanted to go into advertising. I had a love affair with the advertising industry.
Advertising teaches people not to trust their judgment. Advertising teaches people to be stupid.
While it may be true that the best advertising is word-of-mouth, never lose sight of the fact it also can be the worst advertising.
Advertising is very simple in a lot of ways. Advertisers go where the users go, and users are choosing to spend a lot more time online.
I have to admit I've always had quite a complex relationship with modeling and with the idea of advertising: not always knowing what I'm advertising and selling.
Robbed of a rapt audience, advertisers know that influencing how you spend what to do while depends on having some control over how you spend the resources in your head.
In college, I majored - I can't believe there is such a thing - in advertising. And I worked in advertising and PR for a while, and I liked it.
There is a great deal of advertising that is much better than the product. When that happens, all that the good advertising will do is put you out of business faster.
Advertising is, of course, important because advertise is the final design. It's the last layer that speaks to the customer, that tells them what you have.
The simplest definition of advertising, and one that will probably meet the test of critical examination, is that advertising is selling in print.
Studies indicate that these children are more susceptible to advertising and even less likely to understand the purpose of this advertising.
I worked at Military Media, an advertising agency for military-base newspapers. Don't ask, I won't tell.
My dream was to have my own advertising agency by the time I was 30, and that was before I got into movies.
American advertisers rely on 'essentially illogical' approaches to determine their advertising budgets.
The more facts you tell, the more you sell. An advertisement's chance for success invariably increases as the number of pertinent merchandise facts included in the advertisement increases.
Good things sell themselves; those that are bad have to be advertised.
All the papers that matter live off their advertisements, and the advertisers exercise an indirect censorship over news.
If you look at the heritage of the best advertising, you can make stuff that is great for both readers and advertisers. I don't think Don Draper would have loved banner ads.
It's a growing trend. Viewers are our customers, but so are advertisers. And advertisers want different ways to reach our viewers.
I've never worked in advertising - my experience was as an editorial designer for magazines - but you could say, in the bigger picture, that magazines are vehicles for colour advertising.
