Michael Schudson Quotes

Quotations and aphorisms by Michael Schudson:

Advertising generally works to reinforce consumer trends rather than to initiate them.
~Michael Schudson


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/michael-schudson-quotes/#41c3bd6c

American advertisers rely on 'essentially illogical' approaches to determine their advertising budgets.
~Michael Schudson


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/michael-schudson-quotes/#a9403a69

If advertising is not an official or state art, it is nonetheless clearly art.
~Michael Schudson


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/michael-schudson-quotes/#8b140d43

Chances are that neither the client nor the agency will ever know very much about what role the ad has played in sales or profits of the client, either short-term or long-term.
~Michael Schudson


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/michael-schudson-quotes/#6057bd13

If there are signs that Americans bow to the gods of advertising, there are equally indications that people find the gods ridiculous. It is part of the popular culture that advertisements are silly.
~Michael Schudson


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/michael-schudson-quotes/#62593bae

Advertisements ordinarily work their wonders, to the extent that they work at all, on an inattentive public.
~Michael Schudson


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/michael-schudson-quotes/#ed7961cf

Most criticism of advertising is written in ignorance of what actually happens inside these agencies.
~Michael Schudson


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/michael-schudson-quotes/#9b58359b

It is very likely that many firms spend more on advertising than, for their own best interests, they should.
~Michael Schudson


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/michael-schudson-quotes/#b6476851

The power of ads rests more in the repetition of obvious exhortations than in the subtle transmission of values.
~Michael Schudson


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/michael-schudson-quotes/#41f00044

Buy me and you will overcome the anxieties I have just reminded you of.
~Michael Schudson


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/michael-schudson-quotes/#d00ad8a1

Sales may lead to advertising as much as advertising leads to sales.
~Michael Schudson


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/michael-schudson-quotes/#85979960

The effectiveness of advertising depends on the amount and kind of product information available to consumers... advertising will be more successful the more impoverished the consumer's information environment.
~Michael Schudson


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/michael-schudson-quotes/#fe4e7318

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