Ever since 1965 Gatorade has been one of the top selling energy drinks in America. Gatorade has come a long way since its start and is now the official drink of several professional sport leagues. The company brings in over three billion dollars worth of revenue every year mostly due to their skill in advertising which is a crucial part of a company of such magnitude and Gatorade is known for their persuasive commercials. In the commercial chosen, several stellar professional athletes give the viewers details of some of their greatest failures. This caused each of them to work harder and become the athlete they are today by training harder and making them more determined. The Gatorade commercial that was chosen is a very effective ad because …show more content…
The term ethos describes an appeal to credibility or character. They do a great job establishing credibility because the athletes are seen performing with the drink, which in turn, would persuade viewers to believe that if they drink Gatorade that they will perform at the same level. The people in the commercial are able to directly link their greatest successes and failures to Gatorade by making it seem that it was a major part of their success. This helps build the credibility of all of the athletes in the ad because everyone wants to be able to believe that people like these athletes would know most about the energy drinks that fuel them in live games. Since Gatorade is able to build this seemingly credible source because of who vouches for them, they have been able to spread their product across the nation while building their energy drink …show more content…
Invoking feelings and bits of emotions like advertisement do, causes viewers to feel more connected to whatever is being advertised or presented. The use of feelings and emotions in a persuasive manor is referred to as using the pathos persuasive technique and is one of the most popular techniques used in our culture today. The feelings created from an ad like this could range from anger, to jealousy, sorrow, and even fear. This specific ad is oriented towards the specific emotions of determination and fearlessness that a quality competitor should have. Its displays the message to not ever give up and push on because the failures that even the greats of the sport have had motivated them to be better and become who they are today. The use of pathos helps Gatorade make it sound like anyone can succeed if they use their product by determining the viewers and providing that little bit of a push. This is meant to light that fire of emotion inside someone to do their best. Gatorade has been able to do the same thing with each of their commercials and that feeling you get when you watch commercials like that is due to the pathos persuasive
The look on the man’s face when he looks up portrays the emotions that the audience is feeling: shock, joy, and relief. Finally the sun comes back out and the man has both his dog and his horse back at home. There are many rhetorical strategies that Budweiser uses in their advertisement. The biggest being pathos. They use pathos in almost every aspect of their commercial. By changing the lighting, music, and overall relatability they are able to change the audience’s emotions. They also use ethos in their commercial by always reminding you of their brand.
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.
To the members of the support group Naïve People who are Addicted to Mass media and Believe Anything They Hear or Read Anonymous my purpose of being here today is to help you better understand how to analyze the mass media you come across. Mass media is the news, newspapers, magazines, the radio, and the television. The way I’m going to analyze it, is by rhetorical analysis. Rhetoric is how effective the writer is in persuading the reader by using speech and compositional techniques. In order for you to be able to become more apprehensive when reading information, I will be analyzing the ad for Vitaminwater featuring Kobe Bryant. Vitaminwater was introduced in 1996. It is a mineral water that is given out by Energy Brands. Like many sports drinks they use famous athletes to speak for them and promote them. Vitaminwater’s ad with Kobe Bryant is successful because it persuades people to buy their product because it’s, “The Most Valuable Power.”
Using ethos is a way of appealing to the reader based on the credibility of the source in which the author is trying to promote. Credibility can be accomplished by using tactics to support reliability. First, the author attempts to establish credibility by relying on tradition and value. He accomplishes this in the advertisement by placing major emphasis on a man wearing a belt buckle. He states, "You look more closely. And see a grapefruit-sized rodeo championship belt buckle, dazzling in the sunlight. And you know at that moment, you must be in Texas" (McCALL p. 87). One may argue that the ad establishes the locatio...
Like many mothers all over the world, the moms in this commercial are shown encouraging and supporting their children not only with their actions, but through the use of their words. For instance, when the mother and little girl are shown in a car accident together, the mother looks at her daughter and says, “You’re okay. You’re oka..” In another clip, when a mother and her son are on a rough, stormy plane ride, the mother says to her son, “Everything is alright”. Through logos, the audience is convinced that you can always count on moms for mental reassurance that no matter the outcome, everything will be okay. As the children in the commercial grow up to be extraordinary athletes, the mothers are still there for their children, regardless of their age. This is proven when a young adult athlete cries on the phone to his mother before he competes in the Olympic Games, proclaiming, “I can’t do this anymore”. Very lovingly, his mom responded to him, “Son, I know in my heart you can”. It is words like these that truly capture the audience seeing that most people have heard motivational phrases like these from their own mothers. Seconds before the commercial has finished playing, the note, “It takes someone strong to make someone strong. Thank you, Mom” is displayed. This is P&G’s final attempt at proving to the audience what their purpose for creating this commercial is. The logos shown throughout this commercial delivers detail and a sense of perception to the
An advertisement using ethos will try to convince you that the company is more reliable, honest, and credible; therefore, you should buy the product. The ethos in the ad is Kobe Bryant is in the ad. Kobe has the knowledge about basketball because of his experience. He also has the drive and power to become a champion. He has the credibility because everyone knows he plays for the Los Angeles Lakers.
In recent studies sports drinks like Gatorade, PowerAde, and Muscle Milk have been proven not to be completely truthful about their nutritional value and the impact it will have on their consumers. These studies consist of an argument that water might overall be better than any of these drinks though water might taste bland it may be the best choice for athletes everywhere.
Sport is one of the largest mediums that corporations can utilize to get that mass message out to their customers. Many of us have different ways that “tickle” our fancy so to speak. What interests one does not necessarily interest another, but, even if one person can convince others to try a product or service a domino effect may occur. Corporations are always trying to “spice” up their advertisement. They probably do this to see if they can manipulate a consumer to try their service or product. For example, Budweiser has been running beer ads for many, many years and incorporated comedy into their commercials. They went from frogs to lizards to obnoxious acting. In my opinion, people are swayed by these tactics and tend to try a Budweiser beer more often than they had.
Gatorade sponsors many different franchises, players and associations, so its advertisements are always seen by many, so when they promote that their drinks are better than water for athletes during games and matches; one has to wonder if it actually is? Most of the time when something so big is advertised in TV commer...
Ethos has to do primarily with credibility. Ethos is an appeal to ethics, and is a means of convincing the audience of the character or credibility of the persuader or content. Examples of this in the billboard advertisement are the sponsors at the bottom: Baron Real Estate, the American Heart Association, the American Cancer Society, and the American Lung Association. In the Doritos commercial advertisement, logos is seen with the brand title. The Doritos logos is the more powerful of the two based on this information, because of how Doritos is widely known and recognized by all, while many of the sponsors on the billboard aren’t as immediately
Specialists have decided that drinking a sports drink, such as Gatorade, is better for athletes than if they ate carbs or drink sugary drinks like soda. Gatorade is a sports drink that can be used to combat dehydration in both athletes and citizens of third world countries. Gatorade was first made popular by Michael Jordan who helped it become well know in 1997. Gatorade came about when the Florida Gator Football Coach, Dwayne Douglas, was concerned for his players that were overly exhausted and passing out during football season. He made his way to the university kidney specialist, Dr. Robert Cade, to find some answers. Coach Douglas’ players were sweating off up to 18 pounds without being thirsty for water. Dr. Cade then began to make a mixture with healthy ingredients such as water, carbohydrates and electrolytes. These ingredients all helped to replace the athlete's lost fluids. It was then called “ Gator Coaches Ade”. The Gators started winning games and soon every team was drinking this sports drinks. This was the beginning of the sports drink industry. Gatorade has won many awards like the Clio Sports Award. This stuff has been proven to be better for athlete's than water because of it's ingredients. Gatorade is a major market and has many athletes that endorse
“For teaching us that falling only makes us stronger”, as the Procter & Gamble’s commercial stats, moms are our irreplaceable superhorses who get us where we are today. This heartwarming commercial, created for the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympic Games, has a significant emotional appeal to all the mothers, athletes, and anyone who has a family. It focused on emotional investment, self-reflection, and the bonding between customer values and its brands instead of just the representation and functional performance of the products. Throughout the story, the advertisement shows the baby Olympians are all start with falling down like all of us. Their mothers pick their children up when they
Competition also presents itself in original sports drinks, such as Gatorade (Pepsi) and Powerade (Coca Cola). Furthermore, premixed alcoholic drinks like the Smirnoff range form part of the competition.
Look at the way Pepsi has communicated with advertisements the development of their brand image and see how it appeals to their target market and also create a level of identification. Diet Pepsi, for instance, is very effective at communicating, and as the number one diet drink globally the message does appear to work. One of the most remembered advertisements in the US looks to fashion and trends. There is a very scenic lead in with a car broken down in the dessert and a well known star in a tuxedo, P Diddy, who is on the way to an awards ceremony. The Pepsi truck stops and takes the stranded star to the red carpet where the truck is seen as a fashion statement. The aim is to appear different and young, the target audience to this advertisement are those who may be attracted by the same awards ceremony and are also interested in fashion trends so there is both aspiration and identification.