Advertising: Principles and Practice We live in a consumers' society. Economic agents no longer compete to create the highest quality products, but they compete to create the strongest marketing campaigns, to best serve customers' needs and wants and to create and consolidate the strongest possible brand. In this setting then, marketing plays an essential role.

Marketing traditionally encompasses the totality of tools and mechanisms involved in the management of the relationship between the firm and its customers. Advertising is one important part of this relationship and it can be defined as the external communications of a firm, with the intent to transmit information and appeal to audiences (Janoschka, 2004).

The development and implementation of a successful advertising campaign is a complex and tedious effort. Marketing specialists have to ensure that their advertisements reflect the features of the product they advertise, capture the attention of the audience and stimulate the purchase decision. Such objectives are not...

In order to do so, there are various considerations included in the construction of advertisements, among the most important of which referring to the following:
Color and intensity

Size and contrast

Movement and direction

Motivation -- self-referencing

Novelty and error

Sex, nudity, erotica and provocation

Semiotics, motivation and natural signs (Dahlen, Lange and Smith, 2009).

Colors attract the attention of the audience and they also help preserve it for longer periods of time. Colors create more intense advertisements and they are better able to wake the stimuli of the audience. Still, the choice of the colors is a complex endeavor and it is often…