Commercials on television are similar to sex and taxes; the more talk there is about them, the less likely they are to be curbed.

- Jack Gould
 

Commercial society regards people as bundles of appetites, a conception that turns human beings inside out,
leaving nothing to be regarded as inherently private.
Commercial society finds unintelligible the idea that anything - an emotion, activity, or product - is
too "intimately personal" for uninhibited commercial treatment.

- George F Will
 

Fighting off Boredom

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Who Would Have Thought Bicycles and Life Insurance Could Be Funny?

A flock...

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Source: compiled from joe-ks.com

According to David Ogivly, you have only 30 seconds in a TV commercial.  If you grab attention in the first frame with a visual surprise, you stand a better chance of holding the viewer.  People screen out a lot of commercials because they open with something dull...  When you advertise fire-extinguishers, he says you should open with the fire.

According to Morris Hite, to Mrs Mufoosky, "the commercials may seem as long as a whore's dream..."  But to the new advertiser who has spent $100,000 for his first network commercial, he is getting a new understanding of "a split second."  It's the fastest half minute of his lifetime...

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