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The ingredients for great advertising haven't changed since the 'Mad Men' era: Brands win if their advertising is relevant and people like it.
David Droga
Great
People
Win
Men
Changed
Mad
Relevant
Mad Men
Since
Like
Advertising
Era
Brands
Ingredients
I love traditional advertising and have built my career on it. However, I think that is one option, not the only option. If some of it ends up in that space, fine, so long as it does so because it's relevant to the desired outcome.
David Droga
Love
Space
Long
Think
Relevant
Outcome
Fine
Some
Only
Advertising
Because
Does
Built
Traditional
However
Up
Option
Ends
Career
Desired
There are certain people throughout my career I've earmarked as smart people I would like to work with. And I'm not just talking about advertising people.
David Droga
Work
People
Smart
Would
About
Throughout
Smart People
Like
Advertising
Talking
Just
Certain
Career
Being the youngest of five boys with a younger sister, being the only one who didn't go to university, I had to prove it was the right decision to go into advertising.
David Droga
Decision
Right Decision
Sister
Only
Had
Advertising
Boy
Prove
Go
Five
Being
Younger
Younger Sister
Youngest
Who
Right
University
I'm not embarrassed to be in advertising. But I'm embarrassed by a lot of advertising.
David Droga
Embarrassed
Advertising
Lot
Over the years, advertising had become very lazy, very visual. Visuals are important, yes, but as a part of the story.
David Droga
Important
Become
Visual
Visuals
Lazy
Had
Part
Over
Advertising
Years
Yes
Very
Story
Creativity for the greater good is where I aspire to be, and I mean that on several levels: of course, working with worthy causes that need support but also not just contributing to the pollution of crap advertising.
David Droga
Good
Creativity
Several
Worthy
Support
Also
Advertising
Course
Greater
Greater Good
Causes
Contributing
Just
Where
Crap
Pollution
Mean
Working
Aspire
Levels
Need
Think of a pitch in terms of advertising: You're trying to hook a reader the way a commercial tries to hook a detergent user.
David Macinnis Gill
You
Think
Way
Hook
Tries
Terms
Advertising
Reader
Commercial
Trying
Pitch
User
Like a midwife, I make my living bringing new babies into the world, except that mine are new advertising campaigns.
David Ogilvy
World
Living
Babies
Mine
Except
New
Like
Advertising
Make
Campaigns
Midwife
Bringing
If you ever have the good fortune to create a great advertising campaign, you will soon see another agency steal it. This is irritating, but don't let it worry you; nobody has ever built a brand by imitating somebody else's advertising.
David Ogilvy
Good
Great
You
Will
Somebody
Else
Imitating
Worry
See
Steal
Soon
Nobody
Advertising
Another
Built
Campaign
Brand
Irritating
Agency
Create
Fortune
Ever
Good Fortune
Much of the messy advertising you see on television today is the product of committees. Committees can criticize advertisements, but they should never be allowed to create them.
David Ogilvy
Today
You
Television
Criticize
See
Never
Allowed
Advertisement
Advertising
Messy
Committees
Them
Create
Much
Should
Product
The most important word in the vocabulary of advertising is TEST. If you pretest your product with consumers, and pretest your advertising, you will do well in the marketplace.
David Ogilvy
You
Word
Will
Important
Marketplace
Vocabulary
Consumers
Most
Well
Advertising
Test
The Most Important
Product
Your
Some manufacturers illustrate their advertisements with abstract paintings. I would only do this if I wished to conceal from the reader what I was advertising.
David Ogilvy
Would
Some
Only
Abstract
Conceal
Wished
Advertisement
Advertising
Reader
Manufacturers
Paintings
Illustrate
I do not regard advertising as entertainment or an art form, but as a medium of information.
David Ogilvy
Art
Entertainment
Medium
Advertising
Art Form
Form
Regard
Information
What you say in advertising is more important than how you say it.
David Ogilvy
You
Important
Say
More
Advertising
How
Than
It is flagrantly dishonest for an advertising agent to urge consumers to buy a product which he would not allow his own wife to buy.
David Ogilvy
Buy
Wife
Own
Would
Allow
Consumers
He
Advertising
His
Dishonest
Which
Urge
Agent
Product
Can advertising foist an inferior product on the consumer? Bitter experience has taught me that it cannot. On those rare occasions when I have advertised products which consumer tests have found inferior to other products in the same field, the results have been disastrous.
David Ogilvy
Me
Experience
Rare
Field
Other
Those
Bitter
Rare Occasions
Results
Consumer
Disastrous
Advertising
Occasions
Been
Tests
Inferior
Same
Taught
Cannot
Which
Product
Products
Found
Many manufacturers secretly question whether advertising really sells their product, but are vaguely afraid that their competitors might steal a march on them if they stopped.
David Ogilvy
Secretly
Steal
Advertising
Question
Sells
Stopped
Afraid
Whether
Them
Might
Really
Product
Manufacturers
Many
March
Vaguely
Competitors
Why, I ask, isn't it possible that advertising as a whole is a fantastic fraud, presenting an image of America taken seriously by no one, least of all by the advertising men who create it?
David Riesman
Seriously
Men
Possible
Fraud
No-One
Taken
Advertising
Least
America
Fantastic
Ask
Create
Who
Whole
Why
Image
Presenting
Poetry is a street fighter. It has sharp elbows. It can look after itself. Poetry can't be used for manipulation; it's why you never see good poetry in advertising.
David Whyte
Good
You
Fighter
See
Poetry
Never
Sharp
Look
Advertising
Itself
After
Elbows
Manipulation
Used
Why
Street
Millennials don't want to be bombarded by ads. But what is so interesting to me, though, is how willingly they accept native content. Or native advertising - it's not even native content.
Debbie Millman
Me
Though
Willingly
Ads
Advertising
Accept
Content
How
Native
Want
Interesting
Even
Bombarded
Millennials
I take care of Demetrious Johnson, and the UFC takes care of themselves. That's nothing against the UFC; they're a well-oiled machine. They do an amazing job at advertising and making stars.
Demetrious Johnson
Amazing
Care
Job
Nothing
Stars
Machine
Johnson
Take
Take Care
Takes
Advertising
Making
Against
Themselves
I was not going to use writing for advertising or journalism. I would tend bar, load trucks, chauffeur - do whatever it took. But from the moment I took my first writing workshop, I was a writer.
Dennis Lehane
Writing
First
Whatever
Took
Would
Tend
Writer
Chauffeur
Trucks
Journalism
Advertising
Going
Bar
Use
Moment
Workshop
Load
When it went on the air, the sales department hated it. It was the highest advertising pullout show in the history of NBC. At the early focus groups, people were saying, 'Who are these people? Why should we watch them?
Dick Wolf
Saying
History
People
Focus
Air
Focus Groups
Hated
Highest
Advertising
Were
Sales
Department
The History Of
Them
Should
Show
Who
Groups
NBC
Why
Watch
Early
Google did a great job hacking the Web to create search - and then monetizing search with advertising. And Apple did a great job humanizing hardware and software so that formerly daunting computers and applications could become consumer-friendly devices - even a lifestyle brand.
Douglas Rushkoff
Great
Job
Google
Become
Software
Great Job
Web
Daunting
Could
Lifestyle
Hacking
Computers
Devices
Advertising
Brand
Did
Then
Create
Search
Even
Apple
Applications
Hardware
While Google has given away pretty much everything it has to offer - from search and maps to email and apps - this has always been part of its greater revenue model: the pennies per placement it gets for seeding the entire Google universe of search and services with ever more targeted advertising.
Douglas Rushkoff
Google
Universe
Everything
Email
Apps
Pennies
Pretty
Entire
Per
Given
More
Part
Advertising
Greater
Always
Revenue
Been
Targeted
Offer
Model
Gets
While
Placement
Much
Search
Maps
Away
Ever
Services
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