“Consumer sales depend on the habits and behaviors of consumers, and those who manipulate consumer markets cannot but address behavior and attitude. That is presumably the object of the multibillion-dollar global advertising industry. Tea drinkers are improbable prospects for Coke sales.” AttitudeObjectsDependsIndustryHabitBehaviorDollarsAdvertisingTeaConsumersAddressesConsumerismManipulateCokeProspectsOverconsumptionImprobableDrinkersBehavior And AttitudeAdvertising Industry Book:Jihad vs. McWorld: Terrorism's Challenge to Democracy Source: Jihad vs. McWorld: Terrorism's Challenge to Democracy
“What is the problem with the advertising industry is they're still, for me, what I call in Africa is the colonial mind of white men, because the black person or the other colour is out of the line. They're not good for this sort of purpose.” MenMindPersonsStillsProblemPurposeBlackLinesWhiteIndustryAdvertisingColourWhite ManBlack PersonAdvertising Industry Author:Berhan Ahmed
“Be comfortable with who you are', reads the headline on the Hush Puppies poster. Are they mad? If people were comfortable with who they were, they'd never buy any products except the ones they needed, and then where would the advertising industry be?” PeopleIfsProductsIndustryNeededComfortComfortableHumorousMadWho You AreAdvertisingPuppyHeadlinesMiscellaneousPostersHushHush HushAdvertisement NegativeAdvertising Industry Author:Marc Edwards
“We think we have to work because the advertising industry has elevated wants into needs. The newspapers and the television batter us incessantly with the latest "must-haves", whether that's shoes, videogames or patio heaters. As a result, mums think they "have" to work at Tesco in order to buy expensive trainers.” ThinkingWantNeedsOrderResultsTelevisionIndustryShoesNewspapersAdvertisingExpensiveMumTrainersIncessantlyVideogameAdvertising IndustryTesco Author:Tom Hodgkinson
“The entertainment industry, the advertising industry have taken [the] tools from the art world and made themselves much more politically potent. We are really devastated and very impotent right now. A photographer just working for an advertising company has a platform to be much more politically effective in the world than an artist.” WorldArtMadeArtistCompanyTakenIndustryRight NowToolsPhotographerEntertainmentAdvertisingPlatformsArt WorldDevastatedEntertainment IndustryAdvertising Industry Author:Jeff Koons
“The world keeps moving, the world keeps turning, and people get older, and young people become older and more important and cooler and interesting, and actually staying the same becomes a liability, especially in the advertising industry.” PeopleWorldImportantMovingYoungInterestingIndustryAdvertisingStayingKeep MovingLiabilityAdvertising Industry Author:Jon Hamm