Gatorade is a sports drink and nutritional supplement manufacturer that provides a line of products that athletes may use to hydrate, recover and fuel their body while they practice and compete in competitive sports. Gatorade, in their commercial “Your Game is Our Lab,” they claim, “This (athlete's place of training or competition) is our lab. It’s where we learn everything we know. Where we study the athletic body.” Many athletes consume Gatorade, but often do not know the importance of the company’s tactics in why they are consuming Gatorade’s line of sports fuel products. By understanding the company’s targeted audience and the Gatorade’s use of rhetorical appeals ethos (credibility), pathos (emotion), and logos (facts) in their video commercial …show more content…
Gatorade makes commercials that target athletes that are members of competitive sport in various schools, outside league (i.e. club organizations), and professional league. Gatorade features celebrity star athletes like Jamaican Olympic track sprinter Usain Bolt and D’Angelo Russell, a member of Los Angeles Lakers basketball team, to help attract athletes to consume their products. In addition, the commercial scenes are often set in an area of where the featured star athletes perform their competitive sport. Moreover, within the commercial, the narrator states that, “Fuel (in reference to their line of products) that gives every cell in every muscle what it needs to compete and recover.” In summary, the purpose of this commercial advertisement is to get those athletes who do not consume Gatorade products, to start consuming their products so that they may perform better in their competitive sport. It also highlights that those ordinary citizens, who may venture out to participate in some form of recreational athletic event should also consume the Gatorade sports drink product. By understanding the general audience of Gatorade’s commercial, “Your Game is Our Lab,” one must also understand the factual persuasion behind their …show more content…
According to Dr. Susan Krauss Whitbourne, a psychology professor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, “Advertisers have known for decades that the image of a celebrity, royal or otherwise, can help sell products, especially when the celebrity involved has a reason to claim the status of being an expert” (5). Therefore, ordinary athletes may want to buy Gatorade to be just as good as the star athlete that is featured. According to Mark F. Zander, a researcher of The University of Freiburg, Germany and author of Musical Influences in Advertising: How Music Modifies First Impressions of Product Endorsers And Brand, he states that, “Classical conditioning implies that pairing a product (neutral stimulus) with a well-liked piece of music (unconditioned stimulus) will produce an association between the two, and therefore a preference for the product (a conditioned response)” (3) and according to JR Thorpe, “Accumulated evidence is refining our understanding of how radio hits and repeated beats really do affect our bodies when they're pushed to their limits” (2). Therefore, music depending on how the music is aimed emotionally, can serve multi-purposely, to persuade or dissuade the audience to take any action. Moreover, by listening Gatorade commercials, the advertiser chooses to use similar upbeat techno music that most athletes listen to
Jonathan Kozol revealed the early period’s situation of education in American schools in his article Savage Inequalities. It seems like during that period, the inequality existed everywhere and no one had the ability to change it; however, Kozol tried his best to turn around this situation and keep track of all he saw. In the article, he used rhetorical strategies effectively to describe what he saw in that situation, such as pathos, logos and ethos.
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.”
Pollan’s article provides a solid base to the conversation, defining what to do in order to eat healthy. Holding this concept of eating healthy, Joe Pinsker in “Why So Many Rich Kids Come to Enjoy the Taste of Healthier Foods” enters into the conversation and questions the connection of difference in families’ income and how healthy children eat (129-132). He argues that how much families earn largely affect how healthy children eat — income is one of the most important factors preventing people from eating healthy (129-132). In his article, Pinsker utilizes a study done by Caitlin Daniel to illustrate that level of income does affect children’s diet (130). In Daniel’s research, among 75 Boston-area parents, those rich families value children’s healthy diet more than food wasted when children refused to accept those healthier but
Delicious, sweet, refreshing: just some of the few words that are used to describe the taste of soft drinks. For over 125 years, one of the most iconic soft drink brands in the world has been the Coca-Cola Company. However, when an image as iconic as the Coca-Cola logo is reimagined and placed in a new situation, its entire meaning can change. In this case, by transforming the Coca-Cola logo, the message of the icon is shifted from the original intention to convey its relatively recent controversy with racial discrimination.
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 .
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...
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
Marketing companies know that by associating a product with an athlete it can drastically increase sales. Fig 1. Gaines, Cork. "... ... middle of paper ... ...
You’re in the middle of the most intense workout of the season, your muscles are burning, you tired, sweating, and thirsty. What better thing to drink to than Gatorade? Gatorade is the official and favorite drink of many professional athletes in sports worldwide, and when Gatorade makes commercials or starts an ad campaign, it tries to garner the attention of athletes or people interested in sports, and with the Gatorade commercial I’ve chosen nothings different. This commercial for Gatorade drinks targets athletes of both, male and female of all ages, by appealing to their need for achievement, aggression, and domination. The commercial actually has two messages. The first one is one man’s dream is another man’s nightmare, and the second message is that by using Gatorade, it will help you train and get better.
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
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.
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
Pepsi is a well known carbonated soft drink that is sold all around the world. With a net worth of millions, Pepsi has featured many famous artists in our society, including the late singer and songwriter Michael Jackson. Michael Jackson, who was already at the peak of his stardom, had partnered with Pepsi for a commercial specifically aimed towards the younger audience who they referred to the ‘new generation.’
When I learned that I had to write this research paper, instead of procrastinating, I convinced myself to JUST DO IT. This phrase also happens to be one of the signature phrases of the leading athletic apparel company, Nike. The JUST DO IT campaign has been very successful for Nike, but it is not he sole reason for their success. Nike’s campaign has definitely persuaded me to go out and buy a few Nike products. So what exactly does Nike’s persuasive campaign consist of? This paper will discuss all aspects of Nike’s persuasive campaign. Some of the campaign’s strategies, goals, and techniques will be revealed. Some persuasive theories that can be applied to the Nike advertising campaign will be identified and explained. After discussing these theories, the specific arguments of the campaign will be validated. Overall, the entire campaign will be analyzed and it will be determined whether the campaign is a success or a failure.
One way of doing this is by using slogans to show what they have to offer. Gatorade uses catchy slogans to reach their target audience, and to show what their product can be used for. Gatorade uses slogans to identify the company’s mission and theme and reveal them to the consumer. One of Gatorade’s most recent slogans is “Float like a Butterfly, Sting like a Bee, ½ the calories, all the G.” Many people already recognize the first part of the slogan because it is associated with famous professional boxer, Muhammad Ali. But Gatorade is using this catch phrase as a means to describe how athletes want to compete on the field. Athletes want to perform their best and they need products to get them to their best. By Gatorade using the catch phrase in the first part of their slogan, they are basically saying that if the consumer drinks their sports drink, they will “float like a butterfly” and “sting like a bee.” “Float like a butterfly” can have a lot of meanings. To the consumer, mostly active individuals, this can mean that as they compete, they will seamlessly float as if they belong on the field like a butterfly’s flight belongs in the wind. Just like the “float like a butterfly” part, the “sting like a bee” part can also appeal to the target audience. Because athletes want to do their best when they compete, Gatorade recognized that this part of Muhammad Ali’s catch phrase would best express that by using their products, athletes would achieve their goal. “Sting like a bee” can also have many interpretations. The target audience may interpret this as, since they are drinking a product from Gatorade, they will effectively perform their best when they compete. A bee’s sting is really strong, so in turn, when they compete, they want their performance to be as effective as a bee’s sting strength. “The half the calories, all the G” part