Advertisements Quote by David Ogilvy

There is no need for advertisements to look like advertisements. If you make them look like editorial pages, you will attract about 50 per…

— David Ogilvy

Far more thought and care go into the composition of any prominent ad in a newspaper or magazine than go into the writing of…

— Marshall McLuhan

What I object to is tricking the reader and blurring the lines so that unsuspecting readers, thinking that they are getting something that is…

— David Remnick

As for editorial content, that's the stuff you separate the ads with.

— Anonymous

While readers know that advertisements keep the product cost low, they still buy a newspaper for its editorial content and not for its advertisements.

— Sucheta Dalal

The more story-appeal there is in the picture or in the photograph, the more people would look at your ad

— David Ogilvy

The advertisements in a newspaper are more full knowledge in respect to what is going on in a state or community than the editorial…

— Henry Ward Beecher

The interesting thing about advertising is that the things that annoy us sometimes about it are really human. It's us looking at ourselves -…

— Jaron Lanier

Advertising is the art of the tiny. You have to tell a complete a story and deliver a complete message in a very encapsulated…

— Dick Wolf

The real fact of the matter is that nobody reads ads. People read what interest them, and sometimes it's an ad.

— Anonymous

Any expensive ad represents the toil, attention, testing, wit, art, and skill of many people. Far more thought and care go into the composition…

— Marshall McLuhan

All the elements in an advertisement are primarily designed to do one thing and one thing only: get you to read the first sentence…

— Joseph Sugarman