Over the course of my 20-year history as an executive in the music business and as the owner of a firm that specializes in in-culture advertising, I have come to the conclusion that the Grammy Awards have clearly lost touch with contemporary popular culture.
It is advertising and the logic of consumerism that governs the depiction of reality in the mass media.
Many a small thing has been made large by the right kind of advertising.
Studies indicate that these children are more susceptible to advertising and even less likely to understand the purpose of this advertising.
Despite all the public hand-wringing about negative advertising, political veterans will tell you that it persists because, more often than not, it works. But tearing down the other guy has another attraction: It can be a substitute for building much of a case for what the mudslinger will do once in office.
Advertising is a nebulous beast at the best of times.
In our factory, we make lipstick. In our advertising, we sell hope.
Until the rise of American advertising, it never occurred to anyone anywhere in the world that the teenager was a captive in a hostile world of adults.
The philosophy behind much advertising is based on the old observation that every man is really two men - the man he is and the man he wants to be.
I feel the film companies should pay for proper advertising to see that the movie will sell, instead of putting it on our backs.
Advertising men and politicians are dangerous if they are separated. Together they are diabolical.
Advertising is a valuable economic factor because it is the cheapest way of selling goods, particularly if the goods are worthless.
Advertising isn't just the disruption of aesthetics, the insults to your intelligence and the interruption of your train of thought. At every company that sells ads, a significant portion of their engineering team spends their day tuning data mining, writing better code to collect all your personal data.
I honestly believe that advertising is the most fun you can have with your clothes on.
What really decides consumers to buy or not to buy is the content of your advertising, not its form.
I do not regard advertising as entertainment or an art form, but as a medium of information.
I was not going to use writing for advertising or journalism. I would tend bar, load trucks, chauffeur - do whatever it took. But from the moment I took my first writing workshop, I was a writer.
If you want quality service, you have to pay for it. You don't buy into waste. I have great misgivings about the amount of advertising that we see in the health care field, some by hospitals, a lot by drug companies.
Advertising is the modern substitute for argument; its function is to make the worse appear the better.
There are always protests, whether you do something good or bad. Even if you do something beneficial, people say you do it because it's advertising.
The interesting thing about advertising is that the things that annoy us sometimes about it are really human. It's us looking at ourselves - and like all human endeavors it's imperfect.
Advertising treats all products with the reverence and the seriousness due to sacraments.
It is pretty obvious that the debasement of the human mind caused by a constant flow of fraudulent advertising is no trivial thing. There is more than one way to conquer a country.
There's so much truly putrid advertising out there it's embarrassing. But not all advertising is bad. Some of it is really quite mediocre.
And it's interesting, when you look at the predictions made during the peak of the boom in the 1990s, about e-commerce, or internet traffic, or broadband adoption, or internet advertising, they were all right - they were just wrong in time.
Newspapers are not free and they never have been. They can appear to be so, but someone, somewhere is covering the costs whether that is through advertising, a patron's largesse or a license fee. Advertising is no longer subsidising the industry and so the cost must fall somewhere - why not on the people who use it?
Is advertising a profession, like law or medicine? How many new parents clutch their baby to their breast and declare, 'I want this child to grow up to be a media planner'?
Language thus becomes monumental because of the mutations of advertising.
Advertising is the life of trade.
Mass demand has been created almost entirely through the development of advertising.
You can tell the ideals of a nation by its advertising.
I was taken in by what might be called the Hard Times version of the Communists' advertising or recruiting technique.
We make programming decisions on a day-to-day basis. We sell advertising on a day-to-day basis. This is the way networks operate. This is the way all television stations operate. This is the way most businesses operate when you have a number of affiliates or a number of franchises. It's the way the business operates.
It is the growth of advertising in this country which, more than any single element, has brought the American magazine to its present enviable position in points of literary, illustrative and mechanical excellence.
I believe that a contract, or at least an understanding, exists between the American public and the American advertiser concerning what advertising is, what its limitations are and what price people will pay for it.
Much of the messy advertising you see on television today is the product of committees. Committees can criticize advertisements, but they should never be allowed to create them.
