Inequality reigns in horrifying ways, and not everyone can even read, but the world of media and advertising withholds very little from the imagination of the dispossessed.
The distance between Don Quixote and the petty bourgeois victim of advertising is not so great as romanticism would have us believe.
A lot of medicines are not there to cure diseases. That's fine - drugs that keep people alive who wouldn't otherwise be alive are useful. What I object to is the drug companies' advertising, which you see everywhere in the U.S., which claims that they are curing diseases when they're not.
The force of the advertising word and image dwarfs the power of other literature in the 20th century.
It is well documented that brands that increase advertising during a recession, when competitors are cutting back, can improve market share and return on investment at lower cost than during good economic times.
The thinner a newspaper or magazine is - due to reduced revenue from advertising dollars - the less editorial content because of the standard ad-to-editorial ratio, and the less money there is to support investigative journalism.
In the world of commercial speech, tobacco advertising bears the earmarks of an endangered species.
Amobee has an enviable track record of success supporting the world's leading brands with their cutting edge, end-to-end mobile advertising solution.
Anyone who thinks that people can be fooled or pushed around has an inaccurate and pretty low estimate of people - and he won't do very well in advertising.
If its not done ethically, advertising won't be trusted. If consumers don't trust it, advertising is pointless.
When the vast baby-boom generation exploded into adolescence in the 1960s, marketers exulted. Advertising consultants, always eager to coin a phrase, began happily explaining to corporations the difference between 'teenyboppers' and 'counterculture consumers.'
Now with the Internet, a celebrity is fair game, and it's all designed to sell advertising space.
What is the difference between unethical and ethical advertising? Unethical advertising uses falsehoods to deceive the public; ethical advertising uses truth to deceive the public.
The very first law in advertising is to avoid the concrete promise and cultivate the delightfully vague.
We were the first people to do advertising on the Web. I actually saw in 1993 that the ad could be the content, the destination.
The headline is the 'ticket on the meat.' Use it to flag down readers who are prospects for the kind of product you are advertising.
Online advertising is increasingly only a fraction of what is being lost from print advertising, and it is under constant pressure.
Is advertising moral? It is part and parcel of the American free enterprise system... I challenge anybody to show any economic system that has done as much for so many in so short a time.
The Internet, as a First Amendment medium, hinges on free expression, and that means free advertising.
Advertising is the genie which is transforming America into a place of comfort, luxury and ease for millions.
