“Find Your Greatness” Advertisements really are a large part of our everyday lives. We see them everywhere. Regardless of if it is a commercial on TV, huge letters on a billboard or a bus, adverts on the radio, or even slogans on a friend’s clothing, we are constantly being bombarded with them. They are designed to attract a certain crowd by grabbing their interest and pulling them in. A couple years ago Nike’s big campaign was the “Find Your Greatness” campaign. It was all around the world and it definitely contributed to their success. Often times Olympic athletes were involved in the advertisements. By including successful Olympic athletes, Nike grabbed the attention of many and pulled them in. In a Nike advertisement from China, Chen Both in China and in the U.S., Nike uses these extremely successful, Olympic athletes in attempt to sell their product— by doing so they project their product to not just athletes but to anyone and everyone who wants to be great. Success is attractive and appeals to everyone. With these outstanding athletes, not just competing, but successfully competing, while wearing Nike’s brand, people want to follow. By portraying Nike as what great athletes and successful people wear, Nike demonstrates their product is what all people should be buying/wearing in order to be successful not just with athletics, but in truly everything. These advertisements are also slightly different in such that there is not necessarily an obvious culture difference when a person looks at these two advertisements (other than the language difference), but in the bigger picture. The Nike advertisement from China makes a larger statement than just “Buy our product blah blah blah...” Instead they completely stand up for Chen Yibing’s second place performance and argue their athlete deserved better. By defending their athlete and ultimately their country, the Chinese advertisement is stronger than the United States one because it does more than The advertisement from China does a better job than the advertisement from the United States with this. The advertisement from China, uses the people of China’s anger and confusion to push buyers to buy Nike anything to defend Chen’s second place performance. A buyer is not just buying a shirt or a pair of shorts but is buying a stance. By financially supporting Nike, a person is also supporting Chen and the entire Chinese Olympic team. The United States advertisement, on the other hand, is much less emotionally involved. It does make a person feel like they are supporting the United States Olympic Team if they buy and wear Nike, but it is not nearly as big of a deal as the other advertisement. This emotion that can be taken from the Chinese advertisement shows this advertisement is directed mainly toward the people of China who are upset with the 2012 Olympic results. But, can also be for any audience who loves success. The United States advertisement could also be specifically pinpointed to people who love and support the United States and the United States Olympic team. But, just like the advertisement from China, it could be directed toward really anyone who wants to be successful and who wants to achieve
Adidas and Under Armour’s advertisements are similar but sell a different product and sell in different ways. Adidas and Under Armour use pathos to sell as well. This essay is about why they use pathos, how they use pathos, how they sell it with pathos, and what the visual is in the advertisement, and does it work.
Advertisements are constructed to be compelling; nonetheless, not all of them reach their objective and are efficient. It is not always easy to sway your audience unless your ad has a reliable appeal. Ads often use rhetoric to form an appeal, but the appeals can be either strong or weak. When you say an ad has a strong rhetorical appeal, it consists of ethos, pathos, logos, and Kairos. Advertisers use these appeals to cohere with their audience. Nike is known to be one of the leading brands of the sports shoes and apparel. It holds a very wide sector of followers around the world. In the Nike ad, Nike uses a little boy watching other basketball players play, and as the kid keeps growing, his love for basketball keeps growing. Eventually, he
Advertisements are one of many things that Americans cannot get away from. Every American sees an average of 3,000 advertisements a day; whether it’s on the television, radio, while surfing the internet, or while driving around town. Advertisements try to get consumers to buy their products by getting their attention. Most advertisements don’t have anything to do with the product itself. Every company has a different way of getting the public’s attention, but every advertisement has the same goal - to sell the product. Every advertisement tries to appeal to the audience by using ethos, pathos, and logos, while also focusing on who their audience is and the purpose of the ad. An example of this is a Charmin commercial where there is a bear who gets excited when he gets to use the toilet paper because it is so soft.
Sunday, June 19th 2016 will be a date that will lay in the hearts of Cleveland sports fans for the rest of their lives. On this day, the Cleveland Cavaliers finished the nearly impossible task of coming back from being down three games to one in the NBA Finals in order to give the city of Cleveland its first professional sports championship in fifty-two years. The team was led by LeBron James, Kyrie Irving, and company; together, they made history. After the championship many emotional advertisements came out about the city of Cleveland, but there is one that stands out the most. Nike, who endorse LeBron James and Kyrie Irving, released an emotional advertisement called “Worth the Wait,” targeting those who have been with Cleveland since the
Nike’s sweatshop manufacturing practices which can be seen through media have shown people that this company goes under the good guys images, these images which are displayed in their commercials show people that their employees are treated well and their happy in their working environment.
The advertisement caught my attention because Lebron James is the best basketball player in the world and he is an overall good person. I was persuaded by that commercial and went and order some new Nike shoes online. I would say that I am an expert when it comes to sports so I was able to make an informed decision.
In a society where the sports marketing industry predominantly targeted men, Nike sought to go against the status quo and empower young girls to encourage them to participate in sports. Nike identifies the social issues of gender inequality by attacking the stereotype that young girls should not be encouraged to engage in physical in sports. The campaign identifies that young women will have a greater self-esteem and self-confidence if involved in sports.
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.
It’s because when I sport the Nike swoosh, I feel as if I representing the Nike brand and the beautiful, driven, fit women I see in their advertisements. Feeling this way gives me the inspiration and confidence to play my best. I feel as if I identify with the women in the advertisements by wearing Nike. “The relationship between persons and the product remains one of the most crucial signifiers within advertisements. Persons in advertisements supply the consumer with a certain identification frame—whether the person is presented as a user or is presented within a lifestyle setting, the viewer is invited to identify him/herself with the presented person.” 202 Brand Culture. The Nike brand does a great job at doing this to their consumers to create brand loyalty. Nike brand users, just like myself, see the athletes using the brands and feel a certain connection to them. Brand loyalty should not only be a goal for brands because of the benefit of having their logo advertised on consumers who fit within their target market, but also for PRICE SOMETHING ECONOMY
...fected by print advertising even if they don’t realize it. Nike uses all different forms of advertising to appeal to all audiences.
From their marketing strategies to their selling philosophies, Nike has developed one of the most recognizable and demanded name and logo tandems ever created.
But what makes people buy the name brand Nike? They have great advertisement. I love to watch Nike commercials; they appeal to me as an athlete. The commercials show the inner fight in people, breaking records, becoming a stronger person, being the best you, and being the best athlete; you can be overcoming anything. I find their advertisement to be very inspiring and motivational. The Nike slogan ‘Just Do It’ plastered on so many products inspire others to get out and ‘Just Do It,' no hesitation. Nike tries to appeal to you to buy their products by placing their apparel on professional athletic. Everyone knows Lebron James he has many young athletes that look up to him and want to be just like him. What do they see Lebron James wearing? Nike apparel, for the kids that want to be just like him, they want what he has. So they want the Nike look. For me personally, I see Nike products and logos at just about all sporting events, which is a great strategy for the business.
This is the best way by which Nike has used to convey its significance, because the target audience appreciates and relates to their idols. Nike uses inspirational stories that are related to sports and fitness to build its communication. They use pictures or verbally transmitted to deliver their story. Nike main aim is to broadcast as excitement and affection. For this sometimes Nike provides advertisements that are related to emotion that will reach the target audience. Nike use to print advertisement which performs the individualism of women, which helps them to convey
The developmental stages of a successful campaign help to establish the product in the audience’s mind or consciousness. The stages of the Nike campaign can be described by using the Yale Five-Stage Developmental Model. Yale researchers developed this model while observing the growth of national identity. The first stage of this model is identification. Our text states that “Many products and causes develop a graphic symbol or logotype to create identification in the audience’s mind” (p. 264, Larson). The logo Nike is most famous for is “The Swoosh.” This is the term given to the symbol of winged victory that appears on Nike products. “The design of the swoosh logo was inspired by the wing from the Greek goddess Nike” (p. 3, http://shrike.depaul.edu /~mcoscino/word.html). The Nike logo’s presence can be noted in almost every aspect of the athletic world.
Advertisements are located everywhere. No one can go anywhere without seeing at least one advertisement. These ads, as they are called, are an essential part of every type of media. They are placed in television, radio, magazines, and can even be seen on billboards by the roadside. Advertisements allow media to be sold at a cheaper price, and sometimes even free, to the consumer. Advertisers pay media companies to place their ads into the media. Therefore, the media companies make their money off of ads, and the consumer can view this material for a significantly less price than the material would be without the ads. Advertisers’ main purpose is to influence the consumer to purchase their product. This particular ad, located in Sport magazine, attracts the outer-directed emulators. The people that typically fit into this category of consumers are people that buy items to fit in or to impress people. Sometimes ads can be misleading in ways that confuse the consumer to purchase the product for reasons other than the actual product was designed for. Advertisers influence consumers by alluding the consumer into buying this product over a generic product that could perform the same task, directing the advertisement towards a certain audience, and developing the ad where it is visually attractive.