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"Delusional thinking isn't just acceptable in marketing today -- it's mandatory."
"Shakespeare was a storyteller. You're a copywriter."
"Good ads appeal to us as consumers. Great ads appeal to us as humans."
"As an ad medium, the web is a much better yellow pages and a much worse television."
"Sometimes success in the advertising business requires sitting quietly and letting clients proceed with their hysterical delusions."
"Marketers prefer precise answers that are wrong to imprecise answers that are right."
"Brand studies last for months, cost hundreds of thousands of dollars, and generally have less impact on business than cleaning the drapes."
"The idea that the same consumer who was frantically clicking her TV remote to escape from advertising was going to merrily click her mouse to interact with it is going to go down as one of the great advertising delusions of all time."
"Nobody really knows what "creativity" is. Every year thousands of people take a pilgrimage to find out. This involves flying to Cannes, snorting cocaine, and having sex with smokers."
"Marketers habitually overestimate the attraction of new things and underestimate the power of traditional consumer behavior."
"We don’t get them to try our product by convincing them to love our brand. We get them to love our brand by convincing them to try our product."
"In American business, there is nothing stupider than the previous generation of management."
"If the message is right, who cares what screen people see it on? If the message is wrong, what difference does it make?"
"The only form of product information on the planet less trustworthy than advertising is the shrill ravings of web maniacs."
"There's no bigger sucker than a gullible marketer convinced he's missing a trend."
"All ad campaigns are branding campaigns. Whether you intend it to be a branding campaign is irrelevant. It will create an impression of your brand regardless of your intent."
"Nobody ever got famous predicting that things would stay pretty much the same."
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"Creative people make the ads. Everyone else makes the arrangements."
"Delusional thinking isn't just acceptable in marketing today -- it's mandatory."
"Shakespeare was a storyteller. You're a copywriter."
"Good ads appeal to us as consumers. Great ads appeal to us as humans."
"As an ad medium, the web is a much better yellow pages and a much worse television."
"Sometimes success in the advertising business requires sitting quietly and letting clients proceed with their hysterical delusions."
"Marketers prefer precise answers that are wrong to imprecise answers that are right."
"Brand studies last for months, cost hundreds of thousands of dollars, and generally have less impact on business than cleaning the drapes."
"The idea that the same consumer who was frantically clicking her TV remote to escape from advertising was going to merrily click her mouse to interact with it is going to go down as one of the great advertising delusions of all time."
"Nobody really knows what "creativity" is. Every year thousands of people take a pilgrimage to find out. This involves flying to Cannes, snorting cocaine, and having sex with smokers."
"Marketers habitually overestimate the attraction of new things and underestimate the power of traditional consumer behavior."
"We don’t get them to try our product by convincing them to love our brand. We get them to love our brand by convincing them to try our product."
"In American business, there is nothing stupider than the previous generation of management."
"If the message is right, who cares what screen people see it on? If the message is wrong, what difference does it make?"
"The only form of product information on the planet less trustworthy than advertising is the shrill ravings of web maniacs."
"There's no bigger sucker than a gullible marketer convinced he's missing a trend."
"All ad campaigns are branding campaigns. Whether you intend it to be a branding campaign is irrelevant. It will create an impression of your brand regardless of your intent."
"Nobody ever got famous predicting that things would stay pretty much the same."
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10 comments:
Nostrabobus? Is that you?
I know half the money I spend on technology is ... oh never mind.
“The book can also be a hat.” ― Stanley Kubrick
Dumb agencies will continue to overspend on the "wrong" technology. Smart agencies will continue to overspend on talent.
Digital advertising needs technology, its impossible to scale without it. That said, the only digital advertising that I advocate is paid search and re-marketing. These two cannot be executed without technology but you still need very smart people to do it properly. The problem is of course that there are many expensive technologies on the market that promise much more than they can possibly deliver. Last year they were all omnichannel platforms, the year before that they were all attribution platforms and this year they are all big data platforms . The only thing that remains consistent is that they are all still full of shit.
What is more expensive? Creative Talent or Technology Talent? Top Tech talent is as rare as Top Creative talent.... most of both are .... not great.
To quote Jonathon Swift (who also knew a thing or two about bullshit) 'Old men and comets have been reverenced for the same reason: their long beards, and pretenses to foretell events'
I'm still expecting licking.
There are 2 kind of agencies: Big agencies and good agencies.
Talent is the source of magic. Tech only provides process.
There is a certain global agency that thinks millions of dollars worth of technology and a rigorous process in an online software program can do a better job than good talent. This, is in the hope that everyone in the company can do just as good a job instead of paying for great talent and staff training. Pay peanuts for shit tier staff, give them a campaign planning process by the numbers and they'll somehow innovate or spend weeks in a rigorous process coming to a response that would have taken an hour with common sense. Hey, at least all this bullshit on a slide wins pitches.
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