Ads Quote by Marshall McLuhan

Any ad consciously attended to is comical. Ads are not meant for conscious consumption. They are intended as subliminal pills for the subconsious in…

— Marshall McLuhan

Ads push the principle of noise all the way to the plateau of persuasion. They are quite in accord with the procedures of brainwashing.

— Marshall McLuhan

The problem of how to make the Internet advertising friendly bewildered and obsessed Madison Avenue for much of the 1990s. Advertising won.

— Robert Waterman McChesney

“Appealing to our subconscious emotions rather than our conscious intellects, advertisements are designed to exploit the discontentments fostered by the American dream, the constant…

— Sonia Maasik

Advertisements ordinarily work their wonders, to the extent that they work at all, on an inattentive public.

— Michael Schudson

There are very few men of genius in advertising agencies. But we need all we can find. Almost without exception they are disagreeable. Don't…

— David Ogilvy

“Advertising is a craft executed by people who aspire to be artists, but is assessed by those who aspire to be scientists. I cannot…

— Luke Sullivan

“Advertising is profoundly manipulative at its core. Its imagery strives to deprive us of realistic ideas about love, sex, beauty, health, money, work, and…

— Jennifer L. Pozner

Ads represent the main channel of intellectual and artistic effort in the modern world.

— Marshall McLuhan

The type of adverts to be found on television and in glossy magazines are visually designed to have a power over the mind before…

— Mat Collishaw

“If ads are about selling things, they are not only about selling things; their images can carry symbolic meanings, transmit messages, and create moods…

— John Jervis

Advertising, an art, is constantly besieged and compromised by logicians and technocrats, the scientists of our profession who wildly miss the main point about…

— George Lois