The Persuasive Appeal In The Bud Light Party Advertisement

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An effective advertisement is able to persuade its viewers by providing informative facts about a brand that help create a sense of liking, which will enhance certain attitudes and feelings about the brand from the target audience. If an advertisement is effective it will be able to persuade its target audience. The persuasive appeals used in the Bud Light Party advertisement are source likeability, humor appeal, and appeal to broad cultural values, specifically patriotism. This paper will analyze how these three persuasive appeals can make an advertisement successful by grabbing the attention of its target audience, the millennial generation, making them more likely to have purchase intentions due a connection made between the advertisement …show more content…

Source likeability describes the degree of liking that the viewer has for a source in an advertisement. The concept of likeability may include the source being friendly, interesting, having a positive attitude, having empathy for others, etc. (Lecture 2/18). Popular celebrities work best for successful source likeability in advertising because they naturally will generate a higher attention rate from the target audience (Study #1). The two sources in the Bud Light Party advertisement are Seth Rogan and Amy Schummer, who are popular among the millennial generation for their crude, carefree comedy. These two comedians have done just about everything that is appealing to the millennial generation but would not be appealing to older generations. Therefore, the two of them as Bud Light’s sources for this advertisement will naturally make the millennial generation viewers pay attention to the content in the commercial. The millennial generation likes these comedians each for different reasons but overall they both give off positive moods, always seem friendly, and happy. Seth Rogan is known as an easygoing comedian who openly smokes weed a lot, whereas Amy Schummer is known for making crude, inappropriate jokes, which she demonstrated in this …show more content…

In the study, humor relatedness referred to how the humor is related to the message type of the advertisement. An advertisement is humor dominant if the entire message relies on humor. This means if the humorous elements were removed from the commercial than the advertisement would no longer make sense. Humor dominant advertisements can vary in impact depending on the degree in which the humor is integrated into the advertisement and whether gaining attention is the main goal of the

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