Analysis Of Got Milk?: Campaign Commercial

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One of the American dairy industry’s famous “Got Milk?” campaign commercial is focused on the milk’s benefits for bones. This analysis report after a brief description of the commercial in the first part, tries to distinguish the advertisement’s target audience and analyze the commercial based on which techniques were applied by the campaign marketers to motivate their audiences for purchasing milk. The paper then moves to the second part to analyse the advertisement according to Maslow’s theory.
The mentioned advertisement shows a mother is advising her kids to drink their milks while her son, and followed him her daughter state that they do not need milk as it is a baby food which does not have any benefit for them. Despite the kid’s mother’s describes how they can profit from the benefits of milk for their bones, the son points to their old neighbor which is healthy even though he has never drunk milk. To make matters worse, the audiences are staring down at one of the saddest things a child could ever see: the neighbor hands cut up when he wants to carry his heavy wheelbarrow. Finally, in last scene all mother and kids drink milk with a lot of fear of what may happen to them in their future bones health.
The first applied technique by campaign marketers is “Research the target audience”. In this regard, the advertisement’s target audiences clearly are families and specifically their children. Since according to Jansson-Boyd (2010) consumers have different culture, value, and attitude, they are different in their styles, desires, and level of arousal. In other words, it is important to do research about the commercial’s target group, who they are and when they drive to consume. Such researches have a significant...

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...human needs based on their psychology. Maslow expresses that people are motivated to fulfill their needs and they drive from the lowest levels with basic physical requirements to heist levels of complex needs. Based on Maslow’s theory, food and drink are some kind of needs which since they are counted as essential needs for surviving, they are precede the other needs in satisfying. Hence, such products like milk are people’s daily consumption witch have an important role and they have to consider it for surviving.
In conclusion, since the main part of advertising campaign lunching is making a change, it could successfully create an influential mental image to promote milk consumption as an essential individual’s need. The campaign marketers considers children as their target and by doing a comprehensive study on them tries to encourage their involvement.

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