Advertising as a measure of competition in banking

“Doing business without advertising is like winking at a girl in the dark. You know what you are doing, but nobody else does,” said one Stuart Henderson Britt, a US advertising consultant.

Lately, significant advertising space has been taken up by banks and other financial sector players in the print and electronic media as well as on billboards and even commuter omnibuses.

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