Famous Quotes & Sayings

Wintour is fur-bearing animals' worst enemy because her magazine continues to feature dozens of pags of pro-fur editorials and advertising each year.

While the advertising market remained challenging in the third quarter, our earnings were better than we expected as advertising revenue growth improved in late September. This was particularly true at The New York Times Media Group, where advertising revenues rose 2.9 percent.

Henry Blodget

We continue to think some upside is possible to these estimates, despite weakness in the online advertising market. We are not looking for as much upside as in the past, however.

We continue to benefit from very strong double-digit advertising growth at our digital operations, particularly About.com,

Henry Blodget

We continue to believe Yahoo! will make a good long-term investment. As a result of the challenging advertising environment, however, we believe the stock could see significant downside in the next three to six months.

Henry Blodget

We continue to believe in the long-term growth of online advertising. Near-term, however, we don't believe the market will bottom until the first quarter. We estimate only single-digit year-over-year market growth in the first quarter.

We do very little advertising yet the program has grown exponentially this year due just to word of mouth.

David Lucas

With money spent on incentives, you can see results immediately. Advertising effectiveness is a much bigger question mark. I think you have seen a marketing budget realignment, with more money going toward incentives rather than advertising.

When instant messaging is like Las Vegas, with all kinds of advertising banners, it's very distracting.

Howard Gossage

To explain responsibility to advertising men is like trying to convince an eight-year-old that sexual intercourse is more fun than a chocolate ice cream cone.

What you're seeing is a sea change in advertising that is driving our economic prosperity, ... Offline (advertising) dollars are moving to online.

What works in spam is similar to what works in advertising. Things like weight loss, work at home, get rich, those are beginning to find an audience.

There's so much truly putrid advertising out there it's embarrassing. But not all advertising is bad. Some of it is really quite mediocre.

Advertising is speech. It's regulated because it's often effective speech.

Creativity is an advertising agency's most valuable asset, because it is the rarest.

Is advertising a profession, like law or medicine? How many new parents clutch their baby to their breast and declare, 'I want this child to grow up to be a media planner'?

If its not done ethically, advertising won't be trusted. If consumers don't trust it, advertising is pointless.

While it may be true that the best advertising is word-of-mouth, never lose sight of the fact it also can be the worst advertising.

Advertising is totally unnecessary. Unless you hope to make money.

In the world of commercial speech, tobacco advertising bears the earmarks of an endangered species.

I wish all consumers were as gullible as advertising's biggest critics. Anyone who believes advertising is that powerful will believe almost anything.

Creative without strategy is called 'art.' Creative with strategy is called 'advertising.'

Lynda Resnick

What is your Unique Selling Proposition? What makes you different than your competitors? Wrap your advertising message around that USP and communicate it in a clear and concise manner.

Leslie Moonves

There are plenty of people who are willing to pay $2.6 million for 30 seconds on the Super Bowl and hundreds of thousands of dollars for 'American Idol.' There will be advertising dollars on the Internet. We're there as well. We win either way.

There are more mainstream advertisers going on-line that ever before. On top of that, you've got a bunch of on-line store fronts up this fourth quarter that you didn't have a year ago.

Steve Lawrence

We ran out of money. We didn't have enough support from the business community. There wasn't enough advertising support.

We're an ad-supported network unlike a pay channel. We have certain rules for advertising.

Yahoo! is embarking on a major transformation. The company must now prove that online advertising is cost effective and integral to the marketing mix of traditional advertisers.

Terry Semel

Yahoo had another strong performance this quarter. Our overall advertising business saw solid growth and our user numbers continued to climb.

We have received countless inquiries about our paid search solutions from small to mid-size advertisers. Express is in response to that demand, providing a sophisticated, yet very easy-to-use, tool for advertisers to manage the complexity of the search engines and optimize their campaigns.

We have reduced our inventory capacity approximately 20%, and thus we have to continue to focus on increasing our yield per minute. We are building a new 30-second marketplace, which continues to move forward, albeit more slowly than we would hope. We are also hoping for a more robust radio and advertising environment that has not materialized yet.

The creative work is a blend of past and present that is uniquely newspaper media. Newspaper media is time tested and future ready for this brave new world of advertising in the 21st century. If the industry wants the advertising community to believe that it is a vibrant media choice, it needs to believe in itself. It needs to get its swagger back.

The reality is retailers will not increase their inventories or order advertising until the governor does sign the bill.