Ads Quote by Michael Schudson

advertising confuses values ... By appealing either to fear, or to vanity, or to covetousness, it very skillfully insinuates false values.

— Ann Bridge

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 value of an ad is in inverse ratio to the number of times it has been used.

— Raymond Rubicam

Ads sell more than products. They sell values, they sell images. They sell concepts of love and sexuality, of success and perhaps most important,…

— Jean Kilbourne

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

— Michael Schudson

Advertising has annihilated the power of the most powerful adjectives.

— Paul Valery

“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

Ads sell a great deal more than products. They sell values, images, and concepts of success and worth.

— Brené Brown

Ads are baked into content like chocolate chips into a cookie. Except, it's actually more like raisins into a cookie because no one [expletive]…

— John Oliver

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

— Marshall McLuhan

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

— Anonymous

“This kind of ad system pays you based on the number of visitors who see the ads”

— Andrew Johansen