The Power of Emotions on Persuasion in Advertising
For individuals who are fortunate enough to have the basic necessities out life, it easy to dismiss banal commercials they see daily. However, a commercial that can captivate viewers not just locally but across the globe is rare. In a Thai Life commercial promoting insurance does just that. On a powerful and emotional journey comes a strong story about donating your time to help those around you. Daily small acts are enough to create a huge domino effect.
The Thai Life commercial has received lots of views for many reasons. For one, it’s a tearjerker and inspiration to others to step forward and help the unfortunate. However, the powerful message behind it takes the win, albeit, it is advertising
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I believe the goal of this commercial is to persuade the Asian consumers to use their insurance company to ensure their investments, giving them time to enjoy life and help the penniless. In a way, the insurance company is using the emotional responses gained from the audience and engages them into feeling obligated to do …show more content…
Pathos is the strongest tool used for its “feel good” feeling after watching the commercial. Tanya Dua, writer of Digiday claims “the predominance of Buddhism helps explain why Thai people are viewed as “humble, respectful, and compassionate” (Dua, 2014). In addition, she says, “its evidence when one walks through the streets of Thailand. We have countless projects and charities of varying scales. We give alms to beggars rather than dismiss them” … “And so ads that evoke these emotions ‘are likely to succeed gaining our favor and ultimately establishing longer brand affinity and recall” (Dua, 2014). While watching this commercial, the target audience must’ve felt inspired, moved, sympathetic and empathetic as they felt this bond or connection. If the audience is capable of experiencing these feelings, then they are more likely to remember this commercial, share about it, or take action. This commercial definitely uses pathos to its advantage because it helps the viewers bond with each other, feeling this sense of urge for action as they’re reaching for a
What a good way to urge viewers to donate money than by showing in the commercial pictures of sorry looking animals? The type of objects they use are cages, crates, and the animals. It targets any animal or anybody in reality because they can see that these animals are in need of help, also that these animals have been abused. This commercial has demographic is an extremely important factor in commercial productions, the fact that so many different people are susceptible to the pathos of the commercial to the point of tears. This commercial had a use of music and it also plays an important role in the use of pathos. The song “In the arms of an Angel” by Sarah MacLauchlan has a part that makes me sad every time I seen the commercial “There always some reason, to feel not good enough” (Sarah McLachlan SPCA, n.d.) and this is sad because these animals don’t feel good enough and you can tell by their
People will then associate the product with the positive feeling, making it easier to persuade the person to buy.Pathos is a tactic well used in the commercial because of the upbeat music and colors along with catchy phase “Reese's puffs, Reese's puff, peanut butter chocolate flavor” on repeat it stays in people's
This advertisement features Pathos, because the little boy in the advertisement will probably make people feel guilty, because they spend a lot of money on unnecessary things and waste it, but this child says “Don’t I deserve a happy life?”, and this will probably make people from our society want to spend money to support this cause. This advertisement also features patriotism, because it suggests that purchasing this product will show the love, and support you have towards your country. This company makes people from America want to support this cause. It says in the advertisement,” Help stop child poverty in America”. This advertisement also features Transfer andWeasel Words because it uses positive words, and positive images to suggest that the product being sold is also positive.
In their advertisements, the St. Jude Children’s Hopsital Research Foundation packs their thirty second commercials with as many rhetorical appeals as possible. The purpose of these celebrity-endorsed commercials is to encourage viewers to donate to the foundation, and the producers have creatively inserted various rhetorical appeals in hopes to sway viewers to open their wallets. By using an immense amount of rhetorical appeal; including ethos, pathos, logos, and kairos, the St. Jude Children’s Hospital Research Foundation has successfully created an informative and heartfelt commercial that has inspired many to donate to medical research for children.
Nowadays, having insurance is a ‘nice thing’ to carry in case of emergency. In the U.S, most people should have at least one type of insurance. As for auto insurance, the law requires drivers to carry insurance when driving. Because of this need, the constant demand for having insurance drives many firms competing in this saturated market. In this analysis, the focus attempts to show GEICO Insurance promotional strategy in communicating its products and services to the market and identifies the effective ways in growing the brand-awareness.
The sad background music immediately sets the tone and the speaker’s soft, mild voice only furthers the auditory strategies used throughout this commercial. This advertisement also evokes emotion through visual senses; for example, the images are very realistic and sometimes graphic. The combination of visual and auditory appeals creates an emotional advertisement that is hard to forget about. Sarah McLachlan, the speaker in the advertisement, said herself: “I have to say it was brutal doing those ads…I can’t watch them-it kills me” (Marquina). She is not alone in feeling this way; many viewers find the advertisement to be too heart-wrenching. Even if the commercial overwhelms these viewers, it still is successful in evoking their sympathy and lingering in their
These commercials make the audience feel fear, love, guilt, or joy about the situation being shown. The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals or ASPCA for short shows commercials to get donations that will help prevent animal cruelty and rescue animals all across the country. I have not seen this commercial on any of the apps on my phone however this is a commercial that I see often on regular television. The target audience of these commercials is animal lovers; it could be a child or an adult. The use of Pathos in the promotion of joining the ASPCA or giving a one-time donation uses animals that look sad, hurt, homeless, abused or scared needing help. It is very effective as it makes the intended audience either want to donate to help the animals or to rescue one through adoption to give it a better life. The type of music played goes along with the feeling of sadness and helplessness that the animals are feeling and makes the audiences feel sad as well. These commercials also either use the voice of a celebrity or show the celebrity holding a dog or cat while giving information about how to help the animals. The audience is shown abused, beaten, or neglected animals and asked for donations to help give medical care, food, shelter, and love to them. The commercial is effective as it pulls at the emotions of animal lovers
From the moment of its existence, car insurance has continued to be a value and necessity in the lives of every driver. With the increasing number of people that are driving, it is something that simply cannot be ignored. And what better way to share various insurance companies than through advertisements and television? Amongst the numerous selections of car insurance, Allstate has proven to withhold a successful and symbolic campaign of television advertisements. Through the use of logical appeals, dry humor, and strategic plot lines, Allstate does an efficient job at drawing its viewers in.
Advertisements are one of many things that Americans cannot get away from. Every American sees an average of 3,000 advertisements a day; whether it’s on the television, radio, while surfing the internet, or while driving around town. Advertisements try to get consumers to buy their products by getting their attention. Most advertisements don’t have anything to do with the product itself. Every company has a different way of getting the public’s attention, but every advertisement has the same goal - to sell the product. Every advertisement tries to appeal to the audience by using ethos, pathos, and logos, while also focusing on who their audience is and the purpose of the ad. An example of this is a Charmin commercial where there is a bear who gets excited when he gets to use the toilet paper because it is so soft.
These commercials targets adults and all income brackets. they motivate the audience who are tired of their current jobs, need a change in c...
These feelings are conveyed by the reader because the spokesperson is someone like them, who works for the things they have, and is living an honest life. The spokesperson speaks to the audience as if she is a coworker, because she wants the reader to understand that she is like them. The relationship that is shared with the audience is achieved by the friendly tone and atmosphere in the commercial. By making the viewer feel like they can connect with the spokesperson, the commercial was able to spark the interest of the readers. The relationship created with the audience was helpful because now that the reader has a connection to the spokesperson, there is now trust there that will make the audience look fondly on the Ford car. The commercial bonding with the audience has built trust and a feeling of common ground, which will lead to more people considering buying the
This commercial has an upbeat feel to it while simultaneously advertising its product effectively. The commercial tries to cover a wide range of audiences. It tries on emotional levels to connect with multiple individual and does a very good job in portraying examples in their situation. This commercial definitely advertises its product effectively. It was timed well, and it used quality examples of rhetorical analysis throughout the entire
The commercial emphasizes an altruistic parent-child relationship throughout. It shows all of the incredible ways a father sees his daughter grow through her first years of life and the impact she has on him. Using this relationship coupled with the nostalgia-inducing music played throughout the commercial provides the audience with a feeling of saudade that shapes the advertisement.
The logos of this ad includes the location of the photograph . The intentional setting, Africa, gives the viewer a sense of realism. This continent, which is notoriously poor, allows viewers to recognize hunger as a real, ongoing problem. The use of this model and setting also portrays to the desire to help others. The ad is very clearly targeted at first world citizens, and is incredibly effective at suggesting it is our individual responsibility to help those in
According to Peter Noel Murray, Ph.D., emotions greatly influence, and in many cases, even determine our decisions (psychologytoday.com). MetLife kept this concept in mind while releasing this commercial. They have created a successful advertisement, by triggering emotions and helping relate the importance of family. The advertisement stresses that family is forever, an idea that is hard to forget.