The adverting industry has a way to sell things to mass audiences with out actually providing any sound reason to do so, instead the use of rhetoric enables anyone to essential market anything. The advertisement that will be analyzed here is brought to you by the Mars Chocolate Company, and it deals with the “M&M’s” candy. The rhetorical devices being attached to the presentation are proof surrogate, appeal to common practice, and rationalization. Aside from this, the analysis will also include an answer to what audience is being targeted, what psychological effects are being expected, and what subconscious needs or desires is the presentation playing upon. By the end, the reader should have a clear picture of what purpose the advertisement serves.
Within this ad there are two major instances of proof surrogate at play. The first one comes in the phrase, “[i]t’ll make your chocolate taster even better”. The “it” being referred to within the quote relates to the action of sharing, with the claim stating that sharing with another person will augment the taste of the treat. There are no scientific reports or survey results presented to support the idea that sharing makes a snack taste better, and therefore must be dismissed as rhetoric. The advertisement goes a step further with this next phrase, “[s]haring our treats is just one little step that can make your day sweeter”. Here, the idea of sharing now takes on the benefit of making the day of a person “sweeter”. Again, there are no scientific reports or surveys that present any data that supports said results come about by sharing M&M’s. At Mars Company, they may take enjoyment seriously, but they must have forgotten about taking evidence seriously.
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...he psychological effect this presentation calls upon with the audience centers around making the individual feel better or happy, as stated with the claim of sharing the M&M’s. This ties into the subconscious need the product is claiming to satisfy, because it would be reasonable to assume that everyone wants joy and happiness and it just so happens that the company has the object that will give the customer these feelings. Another desire being played upon can be seen directly in the treat, sugar. From a young age many are given sweets like candy and acquire a taste or wanting for more and it would be because the human body needs sugar as a component to run. However, to much sugar or of the wrong kind can yield different results than those that expected. As stated in the ad, it is about finding a balance between things that will benefit individuals in the long run.
The presentation will also emphasize how persuasive advertisements can have significant effects on society, including society’s ideological perception of products and their contribution to the nation’s overall health. It was even found to have more Kilojoules than an average Mars Bar! In fact, the study found that most muesli bars usually have more than 1000 Kilojoules. See how misleading advertisements and packaging can be! These clever marketing techniques give extremely sugary foods a healthy perception to make it more enticing to buy – even though it’s still not healthier than confectionary.
“The Onion’s” mock press release on the MagnaSoles satirical article effectively attacks the rhetorical devices, ethos and logos, used by companies to demonstrate how far advertisers will go to convince people to buy their products. It does this by using manipulative, “scientific-sounding" terminology, comparisons, fabrication, and hyperboles. For companies to portray the advantages of their products this article shows how heavily hyperbolized their products are, and uses comparisons to attract buyers. Such is portrayed through customer testimonials.
The Onion’s mock press release markets a product called MagnaSoles. By formulating a mock advertisement a situation is created where The Onion can criticize modern day advertising. Furthermore, they can go as far as to highlight the lucrative statements that are made by advertisements that seduce consumers to believe in the “science” behind their product and make a purchase. The Onion uses a satirical and humorous tone compiled with made up scientific diction to highlight the manner in which consumers believe anything that is told to them and how powerful companies have become through their words whether true or false.
Some studies say that the use of repeating a statement causes you to perceive it as being more truthful. So as Nabisco was trying to gain Ethos, the credibility of a company, they repeated the key parts of their product. By doing this the consumers remembers the statement and they are more likely to remember it and believe that companies products are the best. Using the words “Cookie” and “Cream” repetitively kept Oreos in the mind of the viewer. The commercial causes its viewers to think which they like better, the cookie or the
In the world of party chips and zesty dips, the Sensational Salsa company has created a new brand of salsa flavor. Having believe that they have created a culinary masterpiece, the company has already produced a mountains worth of their new salsa flavor. However, when they begin selling the salsa, they were shocked when the statistic showed that many children and adults did not enjoy the taste of their new flavor. Devastated by the news, the Sensational Salsa company deployed a questionable tactic to persuade more people into buying their salsa and change their attitude towards their product: they plan to pay off parents to lie on Facebook about how much they enjoyed the salsa. By employing this method of persuasive communication, the Sensational Salsa company will try to change the attitude the public has of their product both cognitively and affectively.
Yet this “Oreo Cookie” commercial is perhaps the most remarkable. First, she twists the cookie apart and then, this cute little girl with her hair in pigtails proceeds to dunk the cookie in a tall glass of milk, submerging her entire hand. The camera then shifts to show the child’s grandfather eating the cookie in the same manner. This advertisement aims at leading audiences to reminisce of the simple pleasures of their childhood, like enjoying a cookie.
In this generation businesses use commercial to persuade different types of audiences to buy their product or to persuade them to help a certain caused. If you analyze commercial you can see how certain things play a major role in the success of a commercial. The ad I decide to analyze as an example is the commercial snickers used during the Super Bowl in 2010;”Betty White”-Snickers. This commercials starts off with guys playing a game of football with an elderly women know as Betty White. As Betty White tries to play football she is tackled to the ground. Her teammates refer to her as Mike when they come up to her to ask why she has been “playing like Betty White all day”. This helps inform the audience that Betty White is not actually playing but instead represent another teammate. As the guys keep arguing Mikes girlfriend calls her over and tells her to eat a snicker. Betty White takes the first bite and then suddenly a man appears in her place ready to finish the game. At the end of the commercial the statement "You're not you when you're hungry" is shown followed by the Snickers bar logo. What this commercial is trying to show is that hunger changes a person, and satisfying this hunger can change you back to your normal self. They use different types
of Philip Morris, said “People could point to these things and say, ‘They’ve got too much sugar, they’ve got too much salt […] well, that’s what the consumer wants, and we’re not putting a gun to their head to eat it. That’s what they want.” (Moss 267) However, consumers are being unconsciously forced to fund food industries that produce junk food. Companies devote much of their time and effort into manipulating us to purchase their products. For instance, Kraft’s first Lunchables campaign aimed for an audience of mothers who had far too much to do to make time to put together their own lunch for their kids. Then, they steered their advertisements to target an even more vulnerable pool of people; kids. This reeled in even more consumers because it allowed kids to be in control of what they wanted to eat, as Bob Eckert, the C.E.O. of Kraft in 1999, said, “Lunchables aren’t about lunch. It’s about kids being able to put together what they want to eat, anytime, anywhere” (Moss 268). While parents are innocently purchasing Lunchables to save time or to satisfy the wishes of their children, companies are formulating more deceiving marketing plans, further studying the psychology of customers, and conducting an excessive quantity of charts and graphs to produce a new and addictive
In everyday life we are bombarded with advertisements, projects, and commercials from companies trying to sell their products. Many of these ads use rhetorical devices to “convey meaning [,] or persuade” their audiences (Purdue OWL) . Projects, such as the Dove Self-Esteem Project uses native advertising in their commercials, which refers to a brand or product being simultaneously and indirectly promoted. In this essay, I will analyze the rhetorical devices, such as ethos, pathos, logos, and kairos, as well as the fallacies corresponding to each device, that the Dove Company uses in their self-esteem project .
Companies have rhetoric in their advertisements. The goal is to persuade a watcher or listener into believing that their brand of a certain product is the best. This in turn will make people want to buy the product. When it comes to advertising for a product, the majority of people see it as a concept that is both simple and harmless. As Chidester points out, through the eyes of popular culture as religion, the product associated with the advertisement is considered to be a fetishized object.
Catchy jingles are what persuades consumers to buy more and more products that they hear about every day. This concept has been around for years and the Coca-Cola Company is no stranger to it. Back in July of 1971, Coca-Cola released the commercial, “I’d like to Buy the World a Coke” that sent their customers into chaos with over 100,000 letters being sent to the company asking for more. This leaves many people asking: how did this one commercial have such an impact on the audience? And what did Coca-Cola use that drew so many people in? Here we will discover the method behind what is “I’d like to buy the World a Coke.”
Popular brands and companies typically rely heavily on brand names to unfairly convince people to buy their specific product, even though another brand would likely work almost the same. In order to do this, those companies use many elements of ethos, but they also attempt to establish the superiority of their brand with logos and pathos. In the commercial, “Colgate Dentist DRTV,” the brand attempts to persuade consumers to buy Colgate Total toothpaste by presenting their name and relatable women, followed by attractive visuals, but ultimately the advertisement fails to provide enough logic to convince a well-informed audience that it truly matters which brand of toothpaste they buy, and that Colgate is better than any
When looking at the ad, you notice an appeal to happiness. Although, an excitement to go buy skittles or starburst appears too. Starburst is included in the fine print on the bottom of the ad. It gives a feeling to buy lots of skittles for the codes on the packaging to enter to win, like gambling. The animated characters are so cute. The color of the red sky and what looks like white stars in the background give an unrealistic feeling; although the upside down rainbow gives it a more realistic feeling. If one loves Marvel movies, they would be excited the movie is out on May 5. These feelings fall under pathos.
The advertisement shows a happy man drinking Starbucks Double Chocolate Chip Frappuccino and using two hashtags “my mood” and “my Starbucks” (see figure 2). Also, it is a faulty analogy because it contains an unrealistic statement which is to feel Monday as Friday if the customer buys a drink from Starbucks. Furthermore, by providing this statement in the advertisement, it will help them to get the customers attention and make more profits. In addition, they use the hashtags “my mood “ and “my Starbucks” so when the customers buy it, they can share it by using these hashtags so the other customers will see different posters or advertisements related to Starbucks. Also, when they share it, the company will be happy because people share their advertisement for nothing and the company can get more customers. Also, this advertisement shows that this coffee could change the person's mood which not always true, but according to the research, it can make the person relaxed. It is an unethical advertisement because of using a faulty analogy to sell their products and it does not explain the product, compare it to other coffee companies, how it changes the mood, and what the effects that it can cause. On the other hand, the advertisement uses pathos because it makes the customers excited to feel their Monday as a
Advertising uses the power of suggestion to sell a product. In the case of children, a company’s advertisement hopes to suggest that their product is best. Many food companies target children with the hopes that they can influence their parents'choices when it comes to buying a product. The product is a. Animated characters, catch phrases, and toys are used to lure a child to the product. WORKS CITED Dittmann, Melissa. A. (2004, June 6).