Ad Quotations

Buying a banner, you have no control whether ten different people see your ad once, or one person sees it ten times.

We always have dinner together as a family - even when our schedules are totally hectic. I inherited that from my mom, who would come home from her ad agency job to eat with us before going back to work.

What happened was I saw this ad for a yogurt plant for sale. It was in my junk mail pile, and I threw it into the garbage can. And then about half an hour later, with the dirt on it, I picked it up from the garbage can, and I called out of curiosity.

When I joined WKRC, they were very concerned over my ability to ad lib or speak extemporaneously, which was an unknown factor up until that point.

I actually don't invest in anything that is social, mobile, deals or ad networks simply because those are areas where there are so many players and so many other smart people in the space, I feel like I don't have a competitive advantage. So I tend to go after things that are e-commerce, like healthcare.

Basically, Pizza Hut just backed out on the ad agency at the last minute. They got fired and we got fired. It was a simple as that. We do stuff like that on and off.

We'd dub the one that came off best into the final transcription. It gave us a chance to ad lib as much as we wanted, knowing that excess ad libbing could be sliced from the final product.

In 1997, I was working with Greg Wilson of Red Ball Tiger, our ad agency at the time, when he came up with an addition to the famous slogan 'I guarantee it' that I was known for saying.

I actually looked at an Apple ad from 1978. It was a print ad. That shows you how ancient it was. And it said, 'Thousands of people have discovered the Apple computer.' Thousands of people.

I run a charity. If my name pops up in your call ID, chances are I'm about to ask you for something - money, free ad space, your first born. So it is probably no surprise that people often don't take my calls.

We had just recently moved to California from Italy, and while we were driving around, we saw a billboard ad for McDonald's on Olympic Boulevard in Los Angeles. The word 'guess' was in the ad, and my brother decided that that would be the name of our company!

Even though the Bush campaign ad tells you that Afghanistan is a new democracy at the Olympics because of Bush's efforts, Afghanistan hasn't actually had an election.

The law requires a paper towel ad to be scrupulously honest, but allows political candidates to lie without reproach. What's wrong with this picture?

When images are in black and white, they seem timeless. When you see Carrie Otis in an ad from 1989 next to an ad with Klara Wester from 2009, you don't see a 20-year difference between the pictures.

My first job in Brazil was actually to develop a way to improve the readability of billboards, and based on speed, angle of approach and actually blocks of text. It was very - actually, it was a very good study, and got me a job in an ad agency. And they also decided that I had to - to give me a very ugly Plexiglas trophy for it.

When the Mac ad campaign was in full swing, I quickened my pace as I went past certain bus stops. My wife told me that she loyally took a piece of chewing gum off my nose once.

Our ad campaign with Pfizer is educational. Lipitor is the most widely prescribed drug in the country. For every prescription, there is a doctor writing it. It's a huge vote of confidence.

Marketing is selling an ad to a firm. So, in some sense, a lot of marketing is about convincing a CEO, 'This is a good ad campaign.' So, there is a little bit of slippage there. That's just a caveat. That's different from actually having an effective ad campaign.

You can enjoy the quality of the ad and not let them pressure you to buy what you don't really need. I have had fun taking back superlatives and just ordinary good words and phrases from ads and trying to restore some of their life to them.

I love insults, devastating takedowns, things that could be described by Twitter hacks as 'shots fired,' and funny ad hominem attacks.

The marketing of XP is very deliberate and conscious. Part of it is in co-opting the power of the media; I make sure I'm newsworthy from time to time. Part is in co-opting some of my publisher's ad budget.

Years ago, I tore out a Nike ad featuring Allyson Felix and Maria Sharapova looking super fierce and tough. I always told my family that I wanted to be like them someday, so to come home to my apartment and see boxes of Nike gear stacked higher than my doorknob is pretty much a dream come true.

When I was in middle school, some of my so-called friends found a catalog ad I did for Superman pajamas. They made as many copies as they could and pasted them up all over school.

I think I have been very conscious throughout my career. I can't go back and remember every line of every ad I have done, but I think in the most part I have been pretty conscious that we are not making a wrong claim. I am pretty confident with everything I do.

I personally felt that his ad hominen attacks on British architects were not the sort of thing a Prince of Wales should be doing because, apart from anything else, they put various people out of business.

This is a great time for the 'guerilla marketer.' The days when you used to have to buy expensive TV time and a yellow page ad to get started are gone.

The answer I found is you stay away from the people who make fun of you, and you join these ad hoc groups who understand your craziness.

The first campaign that I recall was with Kate Moss and Marky Mark. Probably the most iconic jeans ad ever.

I remember when Meryl Streep did an ad for American Express, the press harassed her.

If we're trying to build a world-class News Feed and a world-class messaging product and a world-class search product and a world-class ad system, and invent virtual reality and build drones, I can't write every line of code. I can't write any lines of code.

'Ms.' always flouted the rules of the ad world that say, especially for products directed at women, that the ad must be connected to the editorial. You don't have food ads unless you have recipes. You don't get clothing ads unless you have lavish fashion coverage. We never did that; every other women's magazine does.

The point is -- ad we know this from history -- that if currencies remain way out of line, trade protectionism follows.

Whether or not the U.S. government funds circumvention tools, or who exactly it funds and with what amount, it is clear that Internet users in China and elsewhere are seeking out and creating their own ad hoc solutions to access the uncensored global Internet.

We're going to experiment with different ad formats ... find out what they'll tolerate.

We believe Yahoo! will remain volatile until it can prove that its online ad model can evolve in this new, more difficult environment.

We're moving away from that ad that only shows young, beautiful people with a Greek-god physique.

We're expecting tremendous growth, ... The ad market is expected to double from $200 million to $400 million this year, and growing to more than $2 billion four years from now. So we see a big opportunity.

We're flipping the dynamic. If you are in the market for a product, and you have no idea when commercials related to that kind of product are going to appear, it (traditional ad placement) doesn't help you very much.

Yahoo's branded business should benefit from a combination of volume and pricing growth, driven by the holiday shopping period and by continued migration of ad dollars online.

Yahoo! is still seen as heavily dependent on advertising, and since there is no clear recovery in the ad market yet, people aren't getting excited about Yahoo!. In reality, Yahoo! has diversified outside its core advertising market, and growth there will help it grow the top line nicely.

VeloNews.com hit on all cylinders this July. We upgraded to one of the world's fastest server farms to handle 100mb traffic spikes, sold out the site ad wise, delivered exclusive Tour video highlights on demand and had our largest-ever crew of contributors reporting daily. The result was monster traffic and some very pleased visitors and advertisers.

We have no plan to take the ad down. She is on the record saying what she said.

Well, senator, all this ad is is a quote from the front page of the New York Times where your wife thought it was important to come and identify certain things about public policy and principle.

We hear a lot of about the impending economic recession, but that does not imply an ad recession. In the last 20 economic downturns, only in one year has there been a decline, and that was 1.3 percent. So the doomsayers might be wrong again if we do have a downturn.

The producers of this ad are playing off fictional fears to create pressure for their point of view on legislative reality. I think it's unique.

We're just getting into the process to look at it. I think we could have an ad hoc group to develop something that would be a middle-of-the-road, sensible approach to it.

Making children cry for a photographer can be considered mean. But I would say that making children laugh and show off their jeans for an apparel ad is just as exploitative and less natural. Toddlers' natural state, like, 30 percent of the time, is crying, and it doesn't indicate pain or suffering.

Legal dialogue is awesome, but you can't ad lib. It's much more fun to be looser and say things like, 'Can I work in a Han Solo reference?' I'm a 'Star Wars' freak.

Lets get rid of the ad hoc, 'Lets Make a Deal' kind of federalism.

leaves the company highly exposed to ad revenue at a time when the online advertising environment is deteriorating.

Senator Dole sponsored an ad today that said, 'If you're going to talk about a man's record, talk about the whole record.'

So I think when they report today, you want to take a look into the numbers and see what the ad revenues were for last quarter and, indeed, as this year progresses.

Oliver Kahn will be in the ad because he belongs to the best soccer players in the world.

Some competitive keyword ad buys currently being made will be eliminated because the competitors (or search engines) decide those purchases are too risky. Stock valuations of relevant industry players should adjust downward accordingly.

Since becoming AD on Dec. 1, I have talked to countless coaches, commissioners, administrators and other experts around the college basketball world. The one name that constantly came up in these discussions was Mick Cronin.

No one could ad lib like Peter. ... You would think that it was all scripted, he was so poetic, but it wasn't.

No one could ad lib like Peter. Sometimes he drove me crazy because he knew so many details,

My first job was a musical, and I had quite an interesting and varied career in the theatre and television long before the Gold Blend ad came along. I played leads at the National Theatre and all things. The Gold Blend ad gave me a profile which meant that when I wanted to travel to Hollywood, it just gave me a foot in the door - I was a recognizable face.

Never in my life have I ever been accused of not talking. Dan and I both ad lib. Neither one of us can keep our mouth shut.

Phone books are a librarians secret weapon. I remembered going through an old phone book collection and seeing the ad for the nursing home. I remembered it was the house with the big porch that is now a church.

Popularity hasn't translated to revenue quite yet. The quest for the perfect ad model is still in progress.

NBC's ratings are so much better than what they were getting with their primetime, so it's a net benefit to them. I think they will hit their ad guarantees.

NBC's ratings are so much better than what they were getting with their prime time, so it's a net benefit to them. I think they will hit their ad guarantees.

If they sell five or more they get 25 percent of the money. The highest ad seller gets 40 percent of the money.

I didn't want to recreate an old song, like Missy (Elliot) or Madonna. The black-and-white ad has become an American tradition,

I'd like see an ad with somebody listening to Mozart and reading Milton or Shakespeare.

I don't know, we'll just have to wait and see. Obviously, it would be a help, it would give us another big body. But we're just not doing the little things right now. That's why we're losing games. So who's to say that bringing AD back is going to change all that.

I believe the ad we currently have submitted will be rejected. When this happens we will have to decide to either go back to the cutting room floor, or raise the white flag.

I am saying that if somebody sees the ad in TML (the Texas Municipal League's official publication) and chooses to apply now and they are worth considering, we will certainly do that,

Based on the amount of ad skipping, we believe commercials will be watched 20 percent less (in '07) than they are now, ... Our best estimate is that it will cut 10 percent off of the amount paid for advertising.

Imagine you're watching '30 Rock' and an ad comes on, but you don't like it. With Hulu Ad Swap, you can actually click the button and trade out the ad. So for the first time ever, a consumer is in control of their ad experience. For us, it's a big win because users are able to take control of what they see.

If Brian Bilbray had an ounce of integrity, he would call for this ad to be taken off the air. What is even more disgusting is that Brian Bilbray is standing by this ad, which is more evidence that he will say and do anything to protect his pay-for-play ways.

Given that it's cheering her on to win, hopefully, and she is not competing, we didn't think the ad was still relevant.

Four things come not back. The spoken word, the sped arrow, the past life, ad the neglected opportunity.

Fundamentals will continue to be lackluster this year. The ad environment will get more challenging.

If anything, the ad may cause some of our members to rethink their support for the measure.

If an ad campaign is built around a weak idea - or as is so often the case, no idea at all - I don't give a damn how good the execution is, it's going to fail.

I don't want respect just because I'm in the Nike ad or just because I've got some sort of endorsement deal, ... I want people to look at me as a tennis player, as a legitimate player that's won a lot of matches. I'm doing my part these last couple days to prove that to them.

From the softer ad market and the organizational changes in 2005, Fisher is poised in 2006 to capitalize on an attractive business structure going forward as well as other opportunities such as the recent Seattle Super Bowl (that pitted the Seahawks versus the Pittsburgh Steelers) carried on our Seattle and Portland ABC affiliates.

If someone is coming from a particular location, a certain ad may be more popular there, ... The system can use all the signals available, and the system itself learns the correlations between them.

He grabbed that rail, ... He just hadn't realized that we had switched on the electricity yet, and that's what we're going to do with this television ad as well.

We are extremely pleased to be working with AND 1 on an exclusive shoe supported by a national ad campaign. Exclusivity, along with the added value of a gift with purchase, continues to help Finish Line differentiate itself in the mall as well as bring additional shoppers into our stores.

Here the NHL is trying to portray itself as family entertainment, ... and this ad doesn't support that very well.

We have to ad lib, which is basically what we've been doing. The group has done a nice job adjusting. We have to do different things with different personnel.

He (Davis) thought it was an appropriate time for the AD (athletic director) and me to consider a coaching change for next year and at his request we have done so.

Having a great ad campaign is not enough anymore. Any company wanting to succeed in selling nationwide needs to market with the following in mind: their audience in every area of the country; regional viewpoints and beliefs; purchasing drivers; information sources; -- and most of all -- what types of promotions (print, radio, TV, internet, etc.) work best in each given market. Many opportunities are being missed simply because marketers are unaware of the regional preferences affecting purchasing behavior.

I was lucky. In 1997, I walked into a sporting goods store to buy some lures and saw an ad that someone was looking for someone to manage a fishing lodge. I was hired and the man who was my boss was a former professional fisherman. That gave me a 9-to-5 income but also gave me time off work to fish events.

Keep in mind it is your most important marketing tool, ... People will spend $200 on a 3-by-3 inch ad in the paper, but they don't want to spend $75 on a business card that's going to do them a heck of a lot more business.

It hurts us a lot. AD and Shawn (must step up). Shawn can give us some toughness; Shawn plays really, really hard.

I think ad networks is an ongoing story. Federated was a chapter in that story, and it continues to write a new one.

I think it was a pretty cut ad dried draw. We've got about as good a situation as we could, given or record. Hopefully we can keep playing well and surprise a couple of people.

It is not the purpose of the ad or commercial to make the reader or listener say, 'My what a clever ad.' It is the purpose of advertising to make the reader say, 'I believe I'll buy one when I'm shopping tomorrow'.

I think that what we're doing is no different, from that perspective, from the Metro bus with an ad on the side.

I think the ad that basically tries to suggest ... that we'd impose martial law or some such things has not only angered our soldiers and our veterans, it raises serious credibility questions once again.

Like ministers of information, consultants condense the message, smooth out the dissonances, unify the rhetoric, and then repeat and amplify it ad nauseam through the client's rank and file.

It is a party building ad that portrays the priorities and values of the Democratic Party.

Just as people, after the tsunami, deployed this ad hoc array of Internet boxes and sensor devices in Asia, they will come in this time and do it again.

I saw an Emmy ad that AMC took out with all the 'Breaking Bad' nominees' photos, and there's my picture from the show. It's like World's Ugliest Man - I'm an automatic winner in that category.

I saw an ad in The State Press for a cartoonist, and I needed the money.

I saw an ad in a Mother Earth News magazine that explained how to make beer. The very first batch I produced turned out really good, so I figured I had a knack for it.