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Advertising Journal
Television advertisements appeal to youth culture through the use of music and young and attractive actors. Using multiple minority groups in ads also helps advertisers reach a broad and socially liberal young audience. Marketing products on the basis of their cheap price helps attract a college-age crowd. Also, showing a car or cell phone's hip stylishness and trendiness draws the viewer's attention and suggests that the product will make the consumer feel hip and trendy. Advertisers also appeal to young people by suggesting that a product will help a person make a lot of good-looking friends. For example, many car and cell phone commercials depict a whole group of friends of mixed race and gender laughing and having a great time. The message is that that car or that phone will make a person popular.
Unfortunately, advertisements are more often annoying than creative. The worst television ads include those for furniture warehouses and local car dealerships. In both cases, the main speaker or actor shouts about "low prices!" And the jingles they use are insipid. McDonald's ads are far slicker than the local ads but are annoying for the same reason: an irksome commercial jingle. Other annoying commercials include several of those for SUVs, which are sometimes shown driving over speed bumps to suggest that no other car could ever navigate through a city than an SUV. Similarly, some SUV commercials show the driver truly off-road, but most consumers use their SUVs in the suburbs and never drive off-road. Therefore, bad ads are generally unrealistic or annoying to the senses.
Good ads, on the other hand, can be hilarious and even enjoyable to watch. A recent UPS ad depicts some office workers who can't figure out how to send an international package. The acting is good and the commercial uses no annoying music or cliches. The Axe body spray commercials are slightly annoying but still have comedic value because they depict a pile of attractive women assaulting the man who uses the product. Some of the Budweiser commercials that air during sporting events use great music, and are therefore good commercials for their simplicity and lack of silly skits.
TV Commercials The role of advertising, especially television commercials, in influencing social lifestyles has long been a raging debate between public interests groups, government and industry. Critics believe that advertising imagery, coupled with television programming, preys on susceptible minds. Pro-choicers, on the other hand, point out that freedom of speech and expression constitutes a basic, inviolable constitutional right, and that advertising merely facilitates consumers to exercise choice in their lifestyle decisions.
Mark Solon, former President of the Board of Directors of the Discovery Center of Idaho, currently serves on the Idaho Business Coalition for Education Excellence. These four men, along with six others noted on their Web site, manage TopTenREVIEWS, Inc. ("Cell phone providers," 2008). The following four categories denote criteria TopTenREVIEW used to evaluate cell phone providers: Feature Set:...variety of options, including call waiting, call forwarding, Bluetooth (internet connectivity), text messaging
..While older children and adults understand the inherent bias of advertising, younger children do not, and therefore tend to interpret commercial claims and appeals as accurate and truthful information," said psychologist Dale Kunkel, Ph.D., Professor of Communication at the University of California at Santa Barbara and senior author of the task force's scientific report. (Kunkel, et.al, 2004) The Lego ads, when seen by younger children who "do not understand persuasive intent
(Snyder & DeBono quoted in Kjeldal 2003, Introduction section, ¶ 6). The results from the study Kjeldal (2003) conducted with 70 participants in two stages suggest that the word association responses high self-monitors (HSMs) produce reflect selective activation of a personally meaningful, experiential, system. The responses low self-monitors (LSMs) produce, on the other hand, indicate an intellective factual system. 2. Decision Making Process Theories Dr. Bonnie Halpern-Felsher (2009), an Associate Professor at
Embedded Communication in Advertising "There is no evidence that advertising can get people to do things contrary to their self-interest." -- JIB Fowles, in Advertising's Fifteen Basic Appeals "Good advertising does not just circulate information. It penetrates the public mind with desires and belief." -- Leo Burnett, Advertising Executive and Creator of the Marlboro Man "The ability to attract new smokers and develop them into a young adult franchise is key to brand
The same can also be said of corporate organisation that has in their possession accumulated research capacity which enables it to deliver unique products and services from its competitors. 1.2.7 To increase market share. Advertising can also be used to increase the market share of an organisation resulting from the acceptance of the products but the consumer and subsequent recognition of the brand. 1.3 FUNCTIONS OF ADVERTISEMENT Advertising as a promotional mix element