The Role that Advertising Plays in the World Today
Advertising is used in many ways and comes in many shapes and forms,
its all around us and no matter what we do or where we go we will be
surrounded by adverts whether we know it or not. You will always be a
victim of self advertisement, like it or not but we will be because
items of clothing, your car, even the pair of glasses you may be
wearing will include some sort of logo or brand name that advertises
the fact that you own something manufactured by this company and doing
this advertises to the world that this company make such a product and
you are also modelling it for them. In a way when you have a product
that includes logos, brand names, slogans etc you are doing the
company a favour because you are making them a profit by buying their
product and then you are doing free advertising because of the logos
on it or whatever there may be. A certain brand name may also be a way
of branding yourself to a specific group or culture because certain
social groups may only associate themselves with a brand name and this
is because they have been purchasing these items and have taken them
to a new class, whether its taking a high class design down or a low
class design up. When you see a design or brand in a shop we associate
these brand names with certain social groups which in effect can deter
us from buying them, you may see them as to high a class for you and
you might even be criticised for this because your in a different
social group to who would usually own this or you might see them as to
low for you and not good enough because that isn’t what your class
purchases. E.g. you woul...
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...little leaflet that is being handed out in the street that are only
going to contribute towards the amount of litter in the streets but
the one thing that all adverts have in common is the fact that they
are all purposely designed to make us think or behave in a certain
way. Advertising has become a huge business were large amounts of
money can be made, because companies want the best adverts going they
employ private businesses that are up to date with the technology etc
but when making an advert a lot of hard work goes into it because they
spend a lot of time and money into the product analysis to find the
best way to advertise the product or whatever it may be that they have
been employed to advertise, then they also have to look into how other
companies are advertising and what they are doing to attract the
crowds.
Michael Jordan has star power that bridges age, race, and socioeconomic class. Nike understands this aspect of the popular superstar and decided to give him his own clothing line named Jumpman23. It is the most popular form of sports apparel available and the white logo that adorns each article of apparel is known worldwide. Michael Jordan is arguably the most loved and respected athlete of this generation, thus the ad for this company depicted in ESPN The Magazine takes advantage of his immense popularity. In an attempt to expand the companies influence Jumpman23 uses professional baseball player Derrick Jeter to send its message and promote its apparel. In the essay “Absolution for Sale,” Charity Miller writes, “We live in a world of images. Among the most persuasive and insistent of these images are those directed at us by advertising. These images often do more then simply try to persuade us to buy a particular product or use a particular service. More subtly, they influence us by appealing to our desires or exploiting our emotions.” The image of Jeter training alone in a gym clothed head to toe in Michael Jordan’s clothing line combine with a poem above describing his intentions. This scene portrays the hard work and dedication that will eventually lead to success as things an athlete of any level should expect while wearing the clothing. Michael Jordan takes advantage of his legend on the basketball court and his appeal worldwide to create a line of apparel that demands the same work ethic from those who wear it. Its success is in Jumpman23’s ability to interest buyers no matter what age, race, or sport.
Advertising is designed to foster a desire to purchase goods and services, yet it is much deeper than that—advertising is a system of effective manipulation that twists the mentalities of those subjected to it. It shapes people’s views of the world and warps their connections to each other. Therefore, advertising not only shapes their personal values but also distorts them until their principles no longer come from within them. Thus, in my opinion, advertising, unless deeply rooted in high ethical standards, destroys any concept of community, common morality or deep bonding.
This also coincide with our survey result that the most popular colors are black, marron, and gray. Therefore, we can conclude that the most profitable colors will be black, grey, navy, dark green, and marron. Furthermore, students are trending to wear comfortable clothing to school, therefore the most common top are zip up hoodies, pullover hoodies, sweatshirts, and cardigans. Also, as our researches have shown that students prefer semi-fitted and traditional clothing, so we should design product that are comfortable and easy to mix and match. Therefore, more trended clothing properly is not a good choice. Moreover, in the interview with our AMM professors, we obtain some suggestions such as the units and wholesale price for each style, and the idea that basic styles sell better than fashion forwarded styles. However, there is one conflict. Dr. Sen told us hoodies do not sell well recently, which is opposite to our other interview, survey, and observations results. Therefore, we should find out what is the cause of this problem. Due to the fact that our targeted market are students, who usually have tight budget, our products should be affordable. As team B has found that more students accept T- shirt with a retail price between $15-$25, and
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In 2010, five major industries spent a whopping $4.2 billion in ad expenses. Since then, the cost of advertising has skyrocketed (Teixeira 2014). With such a massive amount of money, comes an elaborate strategy to make these ads effective. While slogans give an iconic message, methods such
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Advertising relies on the consumers interperation of their product or corprate image, but sometimes that interpretation is altered due to the context in which they appear. In order to prove how context can alter the interpretation of an ad I have chosen two advertisement images to compare. One advertising was done for the GAP franchise by a well known photographer Duane Michaels, and the other is an advertisement for the Altoid product by an unknown photographer.
Advertising has been defined as the most powerful, persuasive, and manipulative tool that firms have to control consumers all over the world. It is a form of communication that typically attempts to persuade potential customers to purchase or to consume more of a particular brand of product or service. Its impacts created on the society throughout the years has been amazing, especially in this technology age. Influencing people’s habits, creating false needs, distorting the values and priorities of our society with sexism and feminism, advertising has become a poison snake ready to hunt his prey. However, on the other hand, advertising has had a positive effect as a help of the economy and society.
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