Communications, broadcasting, and publishing
"All the news that''s fit to print." ~ The New York Times, 1896, Direct Coined by publisher Adolph S. Ochs "ABC: America''s Broadcasting Company" ~ ABC, 1999 "Be the first to know" ~ CNN "Before you make up your mind, open it." ~ Irish Independent "Biting the hand that feeds IT" ~ The Register "CTV. Canadian Television" ~ CTV "Get more" ~ T-Mobile "Enjoy the Show" ~ E! Entertainment Television "How many bars do you have?" AT&T Wireless, 2004 "How does the wireless industry make you feel?" Sprint Fair & Flexible Plan "If it''s on, it''s in." ~ Radio Times, MCBD "If you don''t get it, you don''t get it." ~ The Washington Post, 1990s "It''s all about you" ~ People Telecom, 2005 "It''s good to talk" ~ British Telecom (1990s) "It''s not TV, it''s HBO." ~ HBO, late 1990s "It''s time for U" ~ UPN, 2003 "Let your fingers do the walking." ~ Yellow Pages, 1964, Geers Gross "Must See TV" ~ NBC, late 1990s "News for Nerds. Stuff that Matters." ~ Slashdot "Nick is for kids" ~ Nickelodeon TV channel "Reach out and touch someone" ~ AT&T, 1979–, N.W. Ayer "Sans liberté de blamer, il n''est point d''éloge flatteur." (1826 ~ present) Le Figaro newspaper Translation: Without liberty to criticize, there is no flattering praise Taken from the monologue of Figaro in the Wedding of Figaro (Act V, scene 3) "Seeing small business differently" ~ SBC Communications "Still the One" ~ ABC 1978, Nine Network Australia 1980s ~ present "The Eye into the Eyes" ~ CBS, 2003 "The first network for men" ~ Spike TV "The future''s bright. The future''s Orange." ~ Orange, 1996, WCRS "The most trusted name in news" ~ CNN "The one to watch" ~ Channel 7 Australia 1999-2003 "We never stop working for you" ~ Verizon Wireless "Welcome to our network" ~ Three (aka Hutchison 3G) "You give us 22 minutes, we''ll give you the world" ~ WINS Radio, New York, 1965 , KFWB Radio, Los Angeles, Present (2004) "Your friend in the digital age" ~ COX Communications
Electronics
"Buy it. Sell it. Love it." ~ eBay "Challenge everything" ~ EA Games "Connecting people." ~ Nokia "Do you have the bunny inside?" ~ Energizer Max, since 2000s "EA Sports. It''s in the game" ~ EA Sports "Get N or get out." Nintendo 64, late 1990s "Hello Tosh, gotta Toshiba?" ~ Toshiba, 1984, Gold Greenlees Trott "Intelligence everywhere" ~ Motorola "Is it live, or is it Memorex? " ~ Memorex video cassettes, 1970s or 1980s on "It''s a Sega Genesis, it''s a SegaCD, and it''s a Portable CD Player!" ~ Sega of America, marketing the Sega CDX console in 1994. "It takes AGES to be as good as SEGA" ~ SEGA Saturn Console "Keeps going and going and going." ~ Energizer Batteries, began 1980s or 1990s "Let''s Make Things Better" ~ Philips "Live in your world, play in ours." ~ Sony "Make yourself heard" ~ Ericsson "Neighbour''s envy, owner''s pride" ~ Onida TV (India) "No battery is stronger longer." ~ Duracell Batteries, 1990s "Now You''re Playing With Power!" ~ Nintendo Entertainmemt System, Super Nintendo Entertainment System, mid-1980s to mid-1990s "One that Last" ~ Duracell Batteries ~ late-1980s "See what the future has in store." ~ Future Shop "Sense and Simplicity" ~ Philips "Thousands of possibilities. Get yours." ~ Best Buy "Touching is good!" ~ Nintendo DS "We bring good things to life." ~ GE (General Electric) "You can''t top the copper top" ~ Duracell Batteries, early to mid 1990s "You''ve got questions, we''ve got answers." ~ Radio Shack
Computing
"Buy Opera today... And make this banner go away" ~ Opera "Can you hear me now? ...Good!" ~ Verizon wireless "Do you... Yahoo!?" ~ Yahoo! "e-business solutions" ~ IBM, 2000s "Easy as Dell" ~ Dell Computer "Everything is Easier on a Mac" ~ Apple Computer, 2000s "GNU is Not Unix" ~ Free Software Foundation "In a world full surrounded by Windows, we''re handing out rocks" ~ BeOS Radio "Inspire me. Surprise me. AMD me." ~ AMD (Advanced Micro Devices) "Intel inside" ~ Intel "Invent." ~ Hewlett-Packard "[It''s] so easy to use, no wonder it''s number one" ~ AOL "It''s better with the butterfly" ~ Microsoft (for MSN 8 internet service provider) "It''s the Internet that logs onto you" ~ SBC-Yahoo! DSL "Multimedia You Can Use" ~ Apple Computer, 1990s "Power is Macintosh" ~ Apple Computer, 1990s "Rip. Mix. Burn" ~ Apple Computer "So powerful, it''s kind of ridiculous" ~ 3dfx (for Voodoo 3 cards) "The Network is the Computer." ~ Sun Microsystems "The power to be your best" ~ Apple Computer, 1990s "Think" ~ IBM, 1914 "Think different" ~ Apple Computer, Chiat/Day, 1998– "Think outside the box" ~ Apple Computer, 1990s "Welcome to the World Wide Wow" ~ AOL (play on World Wide Web) "Where do you want to go today?" ~ Microsoft, 1996 "Your Potential. Our Passion. Microsoft." ~ Microsoft
Recordings
"America''s Best Record" ~ Puritan Records "Applying Thought" ~ Wipro Technologies "Comparison With the Living Artist Reveals No Difference" ~ Edison Records "Each Record a Masterpiece" ~ Van Dyke Records "Echo Around the World" ~ Edison Records "First with the Hits" ~ Mercury Records "Hear What You Like ~ When You Like" ~ Rex Records "If it ain''t Stiff it ain''t worth a ****." ~ Stiff Records "If it''s a King, It''s a Hillbilly— If it''s a Hillbilly, it''s a King" ~ King Records "Never Scratches" ~ Lyric Records
Fashion
"A diamond is forever." ~ De Beers Consolidated Mines, 1948–present (invented by Frances Gerety) "Between love and madness lies Obsession." ~ Calvin Klein, 1985 "Children''s shoes have far to go." ~ Start-Rite Shoes, 1945, Stanley Studios "Create a storm" ~ Monsoon "Every kiss begins with Kay" ~ Kay Jewelers "fcuk advertising" ~ French Connection United Kingdom, 1990s "For successful living" ~ Diesel "Hello boys" ~ Playtex Wonderbra "Impossible is nothing." ~ Adidas "It takes a licking and keeps on ticking." ~ Timex Corporation, 1956 "Just do it" ~ Nike, Inc. (foot wear), 1988-on, Wieden & Kennedy "Lifts and separates" ~ Playtex Cross-Your-Heart bra, 1960s. "Maybe she''s born with it ~ maybe it''s Maybelline" ~ Maybelline "Scent to bed" ~ French Connection United Kingdom
Finance
"Another way" ~ NatWest "The bank that likes to say Yes" ~ Trustee Savings Bank "Because life''s complicated enough" ~ Abbey National "Don''t leave home without it" ~ American Express "Far better for being near to you" ~ The Chesham Building Society "The future takes VISA" ~ VISA "Get a little eXtra help" ~ Halifax "If life were like that, you wouldn''t need a VISA card." "Like a good neighbor, State Farm is there." ~ State Farm Insurance
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