Ads Quote by Tom Shales

The program is only the excuse to get you to watch the advertising. Without the ads there would be no programs. Advertising is the…

— Jerry Mander

I think you will see a point where the traditional model of advertising on TV or advertising online will go, and advertisers will cover…

— Chad Hurley

Television has usurped everybody from film. And so have commercials, by the way.

— Oliver Stone

Television screens saturated with commercials promote the utopian and childish idea that all problems have fast, simple, and technological solutions. You must banish from…

— Neil Postman

Advertisements are now so numerous that they are very negligently perused

— Samuel Johnson

“Many decisions about the form and content of news programs are made on the basis of information about the viewer, the purpose of which…

— Neil Postman

Commercials on television are similar to sex and taxes; the more talk there is about them, the less likely they are to be curbed.

— Jack Gould

Why can't I prove that advertising can manifest itself in a way that doesn't necessarily mean television ads but changing behaviour and creating a…

— David Droga

Somehow it did not occur to us that, in a developed democracy, regular media advertising could turn out to be a suspicious and harmful…

— Margarita Simonyan

“No more Network reluctance to make a program too entertaining for fear its commercials would pale in comparison.”

— David Foster Wallace

Commercials were once TV's version of the church. Which is to say, you couldn't offend the sponsor; therefore, certain values had to be underscored…

— David Milch

Commercial television has lowered the general standard of TV in an endeavour to get millions and masses of people to watch the advertising. But…

— Alfred Robens, Baron Robens of Woldingham