If the main purposes of the media are to inform, educate and entertain advertising covers two of these, introduction of a product, the teaching of how it can be useful People are exposed to over 3000 adverts in one day. This essay discusses the particular values or meanings that advertising associates with the global, the ideas that challenges those particular meanings.
Modern day advert competes heavily for audiences rating, and most of these contain a comedic nature but also for many products, commercials incorporate an adult nature a lot of the times. Whereas comedy may not appeal to audiences that use different languages, an advert that holds a sexual innuendo or at least star good looking people often, attracts more attention and is more appealing to most adult audience. Example of this can be the advert for Lynx Hydrating Shower Gel aired in September 2008; it features a couple wrestling each other wearing just their underwear, in it the girl’s pupil dilated as she watch the male character walk out of the shower suggesting that she develops instant desire towards him, especially after using the promoted product. This advert had no dialect and it is easily understandable, message is very simple, “guys use Lynx, your girlfriends will want you more”, because “sex sells”.
Consumers seem to separate into social groups or classes from the products that they consume “Demassification further secured the industry’s reliance on lifestyle targeting and, along with the expansion of globalization changed the strategies of advertisers” (Leiss, Kline and Botterill 1997 P: 264). Demassification is the “breaking up of a large company the restructuring of a company into smaller independent operating entities groups” (msn dictionary). T...
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Consumerism is made from the social consumption; to escape the current global recession, consumers need to be consuming. Advertisers delivers the product to consumers world wide, so it can becomes globally known, when everyone in the world knows about the product, which can also means the success of the advertising, which means the growing popularity in the product, and therefore it will sells easy.
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• http://encarta.msn.com/dictionary_561546858/demassification.html
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• Social communication in advertising: consumption in the mediated marketplace. (1997) By William Leiss, Stephen Kline, Jackie Botterill
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Evidently, these two guys know how to sell something. When I see an advertisement, I see them like Solomon and Charles did. They are like businessmen trying to sell a product. The advertisements aren't just selling a product to Americans, but rather the advertisements are directed towards a targeted market. For example; a commercial that wants to sell a regular beer will show normal guys hanging out. They could be at a bar, fishing, or having a picnic. The people will be having a fun time. The targeted market would be mostly men because in the commercials it's mostly men with the exception of a beautiful woman here and there.
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Kessler, Andy. "The Rise of Consumption Equality." The Wall Street Journal. Dow Jones & Company, 03 Jan. 2012. Web. 10 Feb. 2014.
Advertisements are all over the place. Whether they are on TV, radio, or in a magazine, there is no way that you can escape them. They all have their target audience who they have specifically designed the ad for. And of course they are selling their product. This is a multi billion dollar industry and the advertiser’s study all the ways that they can attract the person’s attention. One way that is used the most and is in some ways very controversial is use of sex to sell products. For me to analyze this advertisement I used the rhetorical triangle, as well as ethos, pathos, and logos.
The stereotype that most of the companies nowadays uses is the sexual intent advertisement. Since mostly everybody have interest in sensuality, companies abuses this method of having a sensual advertise. As of today, most of the commercial in television have a sensual feeling or visual that society looks forward to. This will give the interest of the society to view and watch the commercial.
SHANKAR, A., ELLIOTT, R. and FITCHETT, J.A., 2009. Identity, consumption and narratives of socialization. Marketing Theory, 9(1), pp. 75-94.
Zyman, S. and Brott, A. (2002). The End of Advertising As We Know It, Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley, Page 9, Page 10, Page 19
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(2010). McClintock, Ann. A. & Co. “Propaganda Techniques in Today’s Advertising.” Eds. Chait, Jay. A.
The rise of the consumer culture is a phenomenon characteristic for the twentieth century. The impact of this cultural movement is disputable.
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