“Bruno Mars is pretty fashionable. Gary Clarck Junior, who was also in our ad with Jimmy Page, is a super super stylish guy.” GuyPagesAdsMarsJuniorsFashionableJimmyGaryStylish Author:John Varvatos
“I got a job in the tear-sheets department, ripping up magazines like People, Fortune, Sports Illustrated, and Time, and delivering the editorial pages.... So I began to use a camera to make fake photographs of the ads. By re-photographing a magazine page and then developing the film in a cheap lab, the photos came out very strange.” PeopleUseJobsFilmSportsTearsStrangePagesCamerasFortunePhotographMagazinesDevelopingFakeDepartmentAdsSheetsLabsDeliveringEditorialsSports Illustrated Author:Richard Prince
“I can't tell you how many home businesses are almost in bankruptcy court over a Yellow Pages ad only to find out that the Yellow Pages ad isn't where their market will look for them, and it cost more than they thought.” LooksI CanHomeCostPagesCourtYellowAdsBankruptcyMany Homes Author:Dave Ramsey
“We mocked that concept ['movies are better than ever'] by doing a sketch that was about a theater trying to get one customer to come in...and that customer was Jerry Lewis. It generated so much controversy that Dean [Martin] and Jerry [Lewis] had to apologize in a full page ad in Variety.” TryingPagesConceptsTheaterCustomersVarietyAdsApologizingControversyDeanJerry Author:Norman Lear
“In the media, traditional media like print, we had boundaries. You know, we had spaces that ads didn't leave. They stayed where they were on the page. They didn't float around over the text. And we're kind of lost on the internet. We don't have any barriers. We have a demand for growth that is insistent.” KnowsKindLostGrowthSpaceMediaInternetDemandPagesBoundariesTraditionalBarriersPrintAdsFloats Author:Tim Wu
“When you're reading a newspaper and you're seeing ads on the page, it's not kind of invasive. Like, it's on the page next to the article. You can look at it or not. You can turn the page when you're ready. On the internet, the ads - many of the ads - just are so controlling. They insist that you see them.” LooksKindTurnsReadingNextSeeingReadyInternetPagesNewspapersArticlesAds Author:Terry Gross