‘Yes, I'm sure there's a lot of money in this. But it wasn't why I got into tech. I don't like advertising very much.’

‘We, the undersigned, are graphic designers, photographers and students who have been brought up in a world in which the techniques and apparatus of advertising have persistently been presented to us as the most lucrative, effective and desirable means of using our talents.’

‘At the end of the first run, they see bad ROIs. They tweak the ads and spend more money and try again. Nothing. So they stop, understanding that Facebook ads are worthless. Almost everyone I've talked to who has actually bought Facebook ads knows this. But, not everyone has bought Facebook ads yet.’

‘the moment when a consumer enters a shopping mall and, surrounded by an intentionally confusing layout, loses track of their original intentions.’

Lovely hand lettering; right-to-left sentences; pre-reform kanji; fantastic imagery.

‘Surely Tiger’s decision to outsouce sexual services to a range of competing providers is in line with Management Consultancy’s established best practice?’ Hilarious.

On the hypocrisy of a film industry ad using a knock-off of the Jaws theme.

Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.

‘[The ASA] concluded that it was unlikely to mislead [...]’

‘If you’re in media in the web era, you’d better be working on a business model that creates huge value for users.’

Asks visitors to tag brands on the basis that the perception of a brand is the brand.

文化の違い。

A great piece of writing.

Now, I'm no rabbi, but this seems very questionable.

Prices, review ratings, and where to buy products in a small Flash advertising widget.

A cosmetics company caught misleading the public again.

Like Bloomberg for hipsters.

Replace online ads with art.

It looks like time-shifting is making unscripted reality shows more profitable for TV networks.

Social sites can be profitable.

Japan Tobacco whimsically tells its customers how to behave.