Look, I went into journalism to do journalism, not advertising.
The force of the advertising word and image dwarfs the power of other literature in the 20th century.
Political advertising ought to be stopped. It's the only really dishonest kind of advertising that's left. It's totally dishonest.
Real content marketing isn’t repurposed advertising, it is making something worth talking about.
Advertising, if it is any good, should help to confirm what already is, not what should be.
Advertising is a symbol-manipulating occupation
Advertising just keeps getting heavier and heavier and heavier. It doesn't have any natural limit, and we haven't found the place for the limit. And I think it's really important, therefore, that some of the revolts that are undergoing right now, you know, whether it's ad blockers or other things, are people trying to set some lines so that we say, you know, this far but no further. And this is where it ends.
You can buy attention (advertising). You can beg for attention from the media (PR). You can bug people one at a time to get attention (sales). Or you can earn attention by creating something interesting and valuable and then publishing it online for free.
Graffiti is only dangerous in the mind of three types of people; politicians, advertising executives and graffiti writers.
I am one who believes that one of the greatest dangers of advertising is not that of misleading people, but that of boring them to death.
Advertising shouldn't be like medicine. It should be like candy.
Facebook, when it began, like Google, was very resistant to advertising. They knew, like all - Mark Zuckerberg, like all good engineers, knew that advertising makes the product worse. But, you know, over time, they've been forced to increase the advertising load more and more and more. And the way they advertise is they - it's subtle but they know everything, you know, about everybody on the site.
In the old days, advertisers ventured on their own opinions. The few guess right, the many wrong. Those were the time of advertising disaster
I know of a brewer who sells more of his beer to the people who never see his advertising than to the people who see it every week. Bad advertising can unsell a product.
News is something somebody doesn't want printed; all else is advertising.
This is no lazy mans field
As with the Christian religion, the worst advertisement for Socialism is its adherents.
If you live in an acquisitive society you are likely to be acquisitive, but it isn't deeply rooted in human nature, except in the sense that it's deeply rooted to be psychologically receptive to your peers and to advertising.
I love advertising because I love lying.
Companies spend twenty, thirty, forty percent of revenues on advertising to brand their product and to get, essentially, acquire customers cheaply. You get a lot of exposure on something like this.