It's almost as if creativity is dead. The visual power of advertising was everywhere - now it's basically gone.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
A lot of advertising has gotten worse. I think it's kind of lost its nerve, to be honest with you. I feel like the advertising of the '60s, they were nervier. You know why? Because there was less at stake.
The Internet is king. Newspapers are dead or dying. Magazines are shrinking every day. Ad budgets are being cut. The bottom line is now the only line in advertising.
The interesting thing about advertising is that the things that annoy us sometimes about it are really human. It's us looking at ourselves - and like all human endeavors it's imperfect.
Advertising is the life of trade.
History will see advertising as one of the real evil things of our time. It is stimulating people constantly to want things, want this, want that.
I'm sounding like an old fart talking about how bad advertising is today, but it's true. Advertising sucks. Guys like me and Bob Gage and certainly Bill Bernbach and two or three other guys, we exemplified and led the creative revolution.
Advertising is the art of convincing people to spend money they don't have for something they don't need.
Advertising is a racket, like the movies and the brokerage business. You cannot be honest without admitting that its constructive contribution to humanity is exactly minus zero.
An enormous amount of ingenuity and creativity goes into commercials, and they can be fascinating if you pay attention.
Advertising is the edge of what people know how to do and of human experience and it explains the latest ways progress has changed us to ourselves.