Rhetorical Analysis of P&G’s 2014 “Thank you Mom” Commercial
“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
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The victories of the Olympians shown in the commercial indicates that no one come across success just by hoping for it. You need the strength of mind and body to struggle and work hard to reach your fullest potential. You also need the sponsor of others, in this case, moms, to help you set the right attitude and drive towards success. P&G reveals the importance of hard working and how they work hard every day to make quality products and services that improve people’s lives. One theme carried through the entire video was a nonviable language—failing. The whining babies, the crying children, the falling kids and so on. But they considered failure as stepping stone and never given up. P&G also thinks of its failures as gifts and parts of its growth and development. The real connection between P&G and the Olympics is moms. Behind Olympic athletes, there is the loving support of dedicated moms who are out there putting all their efforts for their child. Procter & Gamble celebrates the role of mothers played in the careers of several of the Olympics stars. With heavy emotional music and spare use of language, this campaign has a significant impact conveying love for the mother, fulfillment for the athlete and self-reflection for everyone. “P&G, Proud Sponsor of Moms”, P&G is in the business of helping and honoring …show more content…
Through the illustrations of the using of different P&G goods worldwide in a daily basis, the commercial is able to persuade the audience that it is a leading global company that makes little but crucial things. By suggesting hard working, failures, and the support of mom can make an irreplaceable difference to one’s life, P&G added value to its brands. Although everyone has different background and experiences, the mother-child relationship is one of the purest and most natural relationships in the universe. This commercial breaks the barriers and impresses extensive customers by bonding this common emotion with
Many people enjoy the new car smell just as much as the actual new car. In today’s society there is a wide variety of companies and different brands to choose from. Companies have to advertise their products in a way that would stand out to the intended audience. The commercial for the 2017 Lexus LC adequately persuades its target audience, which is both male and female teenagers and adults, to take an interest in their product.
As a child, I always dreamed of growing up. I was eager to have the freedom to make decisions for myself, as well as coming and going as I pleased. I would often fantasize about being old enough to get a job, so that I could buy my own things whether it be toys in my mere ages or purchasing a car once I became of age. Growing up and growing old is inevitable. Although now that I am older, I most certainly wish I was a carefree child again. Contrary to belief most children that become pre-teens, then teenagers & later young adults don’t consider our parents regards for us growing up. We never correlate to how they feel about their children growing up right before their eyes until we become wise adults. This commercial’s catchphrase , "What's between us, connects us," insinuates connections to the window, precisely the glass that was being cleansed by Windex. In the opening scene of the advertisement, the affectionate father first glances
Nabisco, the company that produces Oreo Cookies, has always been known for outstanding commercials. 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. While doing so, the advertisers have created a memorable commercial.
Being a servant to your baby,copying your child’s emotions,or taking your baby’s food, pretty normal right?Not, that was verbal irony, which Mark Twain’s “Speech On the Babies” and “Me Time” by Tina Fey both have through the use sarcastic situations, humorous scenarios, and over exaggerating things that come with being a parent.
One of my favorite commercials to watch is the Chick-Fil-A commercials. Their commercials are very ironic but at the same time interesting and entertaining. The main purpose of their commercial is to persuade an audience to go and buy their product or maybe convince an audience to come back again and buy more of their product. They are able to influence their audience through the use of rhetorical elements. Rhetorical elements include: the rhetor, discourse, audience, and rhetorical triangle. Their commercials don’t necessarily target one particular audience, they incorporate different ideas into their commercial to target different audiences such as families, and football fans.
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
The notion that WUSA executives had was that their franchise would automatically attract fans and consumers because of the United States Women’s National Soccer Team’s success in the previous 1999 Women’s World Cup where they defeated China on home soil. This World Cup victory created a solid fan base that reached not only the youth or next generation of female soccer participants, but mainstream America as well. The research performed illustrated the multiple errors executed by the organization that eventually led to its downfall. Lasting only three seasons and lacking the coverage necessary to continue the team’s noble status, WUSA’s failure to pull corporate sponsors led to the organization’s decreasing revenues and increasing expenses (Southall, Nagel & LeGrande, 2005). Leading up to the ’99 Women’s World Cup, Nike released a commercial featuring Mia Hamm of the Women’s National team competing against NBA sensation, Michael Jordan. The ‘Anything you can do, I can do better’ theme played into the minds and heart of the nation which proves how effective and essential major sponsorships can be. Thus, the lack of corporate sponsors was the ultimate check that WUSA could not cash. Although the ’99 match was considered a “once in a lifetime event,” the methods
The celebrity make-up of this commercial, consisting of stars such as Michael Jordan, the Manning brothers, and Serena Williams, is the main convincing point of this ad and that factor of credibility alone could convince a consumer to buy the product. However, that is not Gatorade’s main message. Normally, a company tries to project these endorsers as larger-than-life figures and ordinary people cannot help but feel inferior to them. This ad does the exact opposite in the sense that it humanizes these athletes and only talks about the failures in their careers. The ad begins with
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 ad product I am going to talk about is for Nike in the snow season, the famous athletic clothes sport brand. It’s obvious that Nike had been one of the most famous sport clothes brand all over the world and that’s because of many reasons such as, their cloth quality, the variety of clothes styles and the attractive colors and phrases they use on the T-shirts. And Nike of course consider as one of the oldest sport cloth brands it was founded in January 25, 1964. They reached the highest sales earnings in 2012 which was almost (2.223 billion US$) and that wasn’t strange for a huge successful clothes company like Nike.
Creators want their commercials, tv shows, movies or articles to draw the audience in. They strive to get your attention using ethos, pathos and logos. A Nike commercial with LeBron James as the star did just that. The commercial about following through with your dreams and becoming big out of nowhere is spine chilling and inspiring.
Instead of trying to persuade customers to buy what the LA Fitness has already produced, the marketing department has decided to produce a product for families not just individuals. The corporation has decided to do this through research. Consumer needs and wants became the firm's primary focus. This consumer-orientated marke...
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
Today, McDonald 's advertisements have begun to trend family-oriented. And in McDonald 's ad, McDonald was good at expressing the beautiful and warm family images by adverting strategy to reflect the importance of the family. However, most of the humorous content and passion are appeared in advertisements. According to the statistics, McDonald spends more than 700 million dollars on advertising expenses, for the reason to strengthen imagery of social relations and try to keep the meaning of communities and families back to the golden arches. (8,Helmer, 1992) For example：“Olympic effort" is McDonald 's bid to build a closer relationship with mothers. The 30-second ad first ran to coincide with Mother 's Day in the US and has been repurposed for the Olympics. Women at various stages of pregnancy are featured in a celebration of motherhood. The endline reads: "The original Olympian effort." with the birth of a child, we can know how great a mother is. And also it is a method for McDonald to get an approach of family-oriented. McDonald highlights the human emotions, and family pattern, giving the family a new symbol meaning in order to make McDonald become a comfortable place for people.（9,Campaignlive
P&G is an international and famous consumer goods founded in United States by Williams Procter and James Gamble both from the United Kingdom since 1837 about 177 years ago. P&G manufactures diversified range of product such as personal care, cleaning items, beauty product, pets food, drugs, & other beverages. Their products are sold in more than 180 countries around the world through grocery and departmental stores and retailers. They are also among the world’s most profitable consumer product company, with highest amount of sales. Their products are recognized in most part of the world. Their company have an organizational strategy to touch the live of its employees which is the major strength and competitive advantage of the company.