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  • The Anatomy of Humbug

  • How to Think Differently About Advertising
  • By: Paul Feldwick
  • Narrated by: Paul Feldwick
  • Length: 5 hrs
  • 4.6 out of 5 stars (15 ratings)

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The Anatomy of Humbug

By: Paul Feldwick
Narrated by: Paul Feldwick
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How does advertising work? Does it have to attract conscious attention in order to transmit a unique selling proposition? Or does it insinuate emotional associations into the subconscious mind? Or is it just about being famous or maybe, something else?

In Paul Feldwick's radical new view, all theories of how advertising works have their uses, and all are dangerous, if they are taken too literally as the truth. The Anatomy of Humbug deftly and entertainingly picks apart the historical roots of our common - and often contradictory - beliefs about advertising, in order to create space for a more flexible, creative, and effective approach to this fascinating and complex field of human communication.

Drawing on insights ranging from the 19th-century showman P. T. Barnum to the 20th-century communications theorist Paul Watzlawick, as well as influential admen such as Bernbach, Reeves, and Ogilvy, Feldwick argues that the advertising industry will only be able to deal with increasingly rapid change in the media landscape if it both understands its past and is able to criticize its most entrenched habits of thought.

The Anatomy of Humbug is an accessible business book that will help advertising and marketing professionals create better campaigns.

©2015 Paul Feldwick (P)2019 Paul Feldwick
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I wanted to argue but had to agree

a brilliant easy to listen to and to grasp history of how advertisers think of advertising.
it's a learning experience, a humbling one, and a valuable practical lesson all at once.

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