William Bernbach Biography

Known asBill Bernbach
Occup.Businessman
FromUSA
SpouseDorothy Cantor
BornAugust 13, 1911
Bronx, New York City, USA
DiedOctober 2, 1982
New York City, USA
CauseCancer
Aged71 years
William Bernbach was born on August 13, 1911, in the Bronx, New York City City, to parents Simon and also Rebecca Bernbach. His moms and dads were Jewish immigrants from eastern Europe, and also William grew up with two older siblings. He finished from Morris Secondary school in 1929 and also went on to research literature and approach at New york city College (NYU). In 1932, after receiving his Bachelor's level, Bernbach went after further studies at the Parson's College of Style, focusing on graphic design and marketing.

After functioning as a waitress and a social employee, Bernbach found his contacting advertising and marketing at the age of 26 when he joined Schenley Distillers as a junior copywriter. It was there where he would certainly start to establish his cutting-edge and legendary advertising and marketing style. In 1941, he joined Grey Marketing as a copywriter and took the following step towards meeting his imagine founding his own advertising agency.

Bernbach's dream was put on hold, nevertheless, when he offered in the United States Army during World War II from 1943 to 1945. After the war, he returned to Grey Advertising as well as at some point ended up being the innovative supervisor prior to delegating form his own advertising agency.

In 1949, William Bernbach partnered with Maxwell Dane and also Ned Doyle to create the advertising agency Doyle Dane Bernbach (DDB). Bernbach radically altered the advertising landscape by valuing creativity as well as human feelings in marketing over quantitative information evaluation. Defying conventional knowledge, he focused on the art of storytelling as well as compassion to produce messages that would certainly reverberate with the target market.

Bernbach's operate at DDB attracted numerous prominent clients, including Volkswagen, Time, Inc., and also Levy's Bread. Under his management, the company created groundbreaking ad campaigns such as the Volkswagen "Believe Small" ads, which reinvented auto advertising and marketing and also developed the brand's track record in the United States. The campaign is taken into consideration one of the most significant of all time. One more prominent advertisement was the 1963 Avis Lease A Car System campaign with the slogan "We attempt harder", which changed the company into a major player in the rental vehicle sector.

Some of the well-known people around Bernbach included his companions Maxwell Dane and also Ned Doyle, famous copywriters such as Phyllis K. Robinson and also Julian Koenig, and art directors like Helmut Krone as well as Robert Gage. They all contributed to DDB's special innovative vision.

In the 1960s, DDB played a considerable duty fit the picture of modern business America by producing unforgettable promotions for firms like IBM as well as Mobil Oil. The work of Bernbach as well as his team elevated advertising and marketing into an art type as well as introduced the supposed "imaginative transformation" in the market.

Bernbach's innovative method won him many honors and also honors, consisting of the Advertising Age's "Adman of the Century" in 2000. He acted as the Creative Director, Chairman, as well as Chief Executive Officer of DDB till his fatality on October 2, 1982, in New York City. Today, his tradition stays as an inspiration to marketers worldwide, reminding them of the power of creative thinking, storytelling, as well as human feelings in producing remarkable messages.

Our collection contains 25 quotes who is written / told by William.

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25 Famous quotes by William Bernbach

Small: I warn you against believing that advertising is a science
"I warn you against believing that advertising is a science"
Small: Todays smartest advertising style is tomorrows corn
"Today's smartest advertising style is tomorrow's corn"
Small: If your advertising goes unnoticed, everything else is academic
"If your advertising goes unnoticed, everything else is academic"
Small: Advertising doesnt create a product advantage. It can only convey it
"Advertising doesn't create a product advantage. It can only convey it"
Small: There is no such thing as a good or bad ad in isolation. What is good at one moment is bad at another.
"There is no such thing as a good or bad ad in isolation. What is good at one moment is bad at another. Research can trap you into the past"
Small: Our job is to bring the dead facts to life
"Our job is to bring the dead facts to life"
Small: Nobody counts the number of ads you run they just remember the impression you make
"Nobody counts the number of ads you run; they just remember the impression you make"
Small: In communications, familiarity breeds apathy
"In communications, familiarity breeds apathy"
Small: Advertising is fundamentally persuasion and persuasion happens to be not a science, but an art
"Advertising is fundamentally persuasion and persuasion happens to be not a science, but an art"
Small: Properly practiced creativity can make one ad do the work of ten
"Properly practiced creativity can make one ad do the work of ten"
Small: Because an appeal makes logical sense is no guarantee that it will work
"Because an appeal makes logical sense is no guarantee that it will work"
Small: The most powerful element in advertising is the truth
"The most powerful element in advertising is the truth"
Small: Just because your ad looks good is no insurance that it will get looked at. How many people do you know
"Just because your ad looks good is no insurance that it will get looked at. How many people do you know who are impeccably groomed... but dull?"
Small: In this very real world, good doesnt drive out evil. Evil doesnt drive out good. But the energetic disp
"In this very real world, good doesn't drive out evil. Evil doesn't drive out good. But the energetic displaces the passive"
Small: Forget words like hard sell and soft sell. That will only confuse you. Just be sure your advertising is
"Forget words like 'hard sell' and 'soft sell.' That will only confuse you. Just be sure your advertising is saying something with substance, something that will inform and serve the consumer, and be sure you're saying it like it's never been said before"
Small: A great ad campaign will make a bad product fail faster. It will get more people to know its bad
"A great ad campaign will make a bad product fail faster. It will get more people to know it's bad"
Small: Word of mouth is the best medium of all
"Word of mouth is the best medium of all"
Small: It is insight into human nature that is the key to the communicators skill. For whereas the writer is c
"It is insight into human nature that is the key to the communicator's skill. For whereas the writer is concerned with what he puts into his writings, the communicator is concerned with what the reader gets out of it. He therefore becomes a student of how people read or listen"
Small: In advertising not to be different is virtually suicidal
"In advertising not to be different is virtually suicidal"
Small: An idea can turn to dust or magic, depending on the talent that rubs against it
"An idea can turn to dust or magic, depending on the talent that rubs against it"
Small: We dont ask research to do what it was never meant to do, and that is to get an idea
"We don't ask research to do what it was never meant to do, and that is to get an idea"
Small: No matter how skillful you are, you cant invent a product advantage that doesnt exist. And if you do, a
"No matter how skillful you are, you can't invent a product advantage that doesn't exist. And if you do, and it's just a gimmick, it's going to fall apart anyway"
Small: You can say the right thing about a product and nobody will listen. Youve got to say it in such a way t
"You can say the right thing about a product and nobody will listen. You've got to say it in such a way that people will feel it in their gut. Because if they don't feel it, nothing will happen"
Small: Properly practiced creativity must result in greater sales more economically achieved. Properly practic
"Properly practiced creativity must result in greater sales more economically achieved. Properly practiced creativity can lift your claims out of the swamp of sameness and make them accepted, believed, persuasive, urgent"
Small: Our job is to sell our clients merchandise... not ourselves. Our job is to kill the cleverness that mak
"Our job is to sell our clients' merchandise... not ourselves. Our job is to kill the cleverness that makes us shine instead of the product. Our job is to simplify, to tear away the unrelated, to pluck out the weeds that are smothering the product message"