Jennifer Manfredi
SYP 4420
2/26/14
Advertising Term Paper on COVERGIRL Cosmetics
Advertising, as defined is a form of marketing that seeks to manipulate, encourage, and sometimes persuade and audience into consuming a certain goods, products, or ideas. The word advertising comes from the latin phrase 'Ad Vertere' which means to turn toward or to get the attention of. Advertising can exist in the form of print, commercial, and audial, to name a few. It can appear as written text, spoken word, or be visual. While many of us think of advertising as how it is utilized presently, advertising has existed for a great deal of history. For example, ancient advertising can be seen in the cave and wall paintings of ancient Africa, South America, and Asia dating back to 4000 BCE. Also, Egyptians used advertising in the form of posters and messages printed on papyrus. There is also evidence of advertising used in Rome as well as in Greece printed on papyrus for things such as lost and found posters and also wanted posters. There has also been evidence of displays of political and commercial advertising in ancient Arabia as well as in the ruins of Pompeii. There are key elements to advertising that advertisers must know in order to be successful. A brand must be innovative and so must their advertising. The advertisements must inspire the consumer and make them desire. ColorGirl Cosmetics had demonstrated this through their advertising campaigns through the use of the cover girl, an ability to adapt to the changing trends whether it be a draw to the natural or a call out for diversity. CoverGirl and also many other beauty and fashion brands utilize models and celebrities because they know that most consumers admire and wish to be or look li...
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middle of paper ... ... Contacting certain audiences, which is their main target during different promotions, is a wonderful way to go. Understanding advertising will help you understand yourself and make you realize who you really are and who you will always be, no matter how many cosmetics you buy. Works Cited Adweek, L.P.
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.
Visual advertisements are straight and to the point for some people. People do not take into account the visual messaging going on throughout the ad. It takes companies a considerable amount of time to create advertisements that are somewhat appealing to the human eye. By adding bright colors and large letters the ad will grab anyone’s attention. In fact, people will be able to see it and read it from a distance better. To show that there are many of small details in a visual advertisement, look at the Old Spice Matterhorn shower gel advertisement.
Advertisements are always around us. They are in every phone, every computer, the newspaper, and in every magazine. Advertisements are omnipotent and, similar to bothersome siblings, they are constantly reminding you that they exist. Advertisements always distract us and generally force you to look at them. Although we try not to look, our attention is always drawn to bright lights, the word free, or motion. It is these tactics that companies use to first grab your attention. From there, everything from the background color to the font that companies meticulously place serves an undeniable purpose to entice the customer and set them on a tunnel vision journey to buy their product. Whether it’s a new car, a new item at McDonalds, or a new beauty product, companies are always trying to grab your attention for money. For decades, the art of advertising is constantly evolving. They are always trying out new tactics to sell
Have you ever seen an advertisement for a product and could immediately relate to the subject or the product in that advertisement? Companies that sell products are always trying to find new and interesting ways to get buyers and get people’s attention. It has become a part of our society today to always have products being shown to them. As claimed in Elizabeth Thoman’s essay Rise of the Image Culture: Re-Imagining the American Dream, “…advertising offered instructions on how to dress, how to behave, how to appear to others in order to gain approval and avoid rejection”. This statement is true because most of the time buyers are persuaded by ads for certain products.
All these stages are simple, but extremely effective. Any advertisement that you hear on the radio or see on the TV is using classical conditioning to make you change your behavior and go and buy their product. Cola, pizzas, cars, and even toilet paper commercials are no exception. Advertisements are made with this psychological principal, using objects or certain types of people to generate an emotion to dig deep into your mind and your pocket book. Today we will take a walk through the history of advertising and look at how commercials for beauty products have evolved with the
Intro Deciding what you want to study during your college career can be a difficult and tedious task. This is due to fact that many young adults coming out of high school are unsure of what they want to do or what path to take career wise. It is also tedious because this requires that these individuals have to constantly try and explore new avenues so that they can find their passion in life. The path I chose to take when coming out of high school was entering the business school at Howard University.
The world has a history of persuasion. There are many types of persuasion. Companies use advertisements to persuade consumers to use their products. Government officials and other politicians use persuasion to gain voters support. Militaries is all countries use persuasion to gain public support at the home front as well as the battlefield as well as persuade the public to fund or be in favor of was. Throughout history there have been many tactics used to persuade individuals. Some tactics like propaganda are looked at less favorably than others like public relations and advertisements.
Advertising effectiveness refer to the changes that advertising causes in the mental or physical state or activities of the recipient of an ad (Jellis Gerard).
Advertisements are pieces of art or literary work that are meant to make the viewer or reader associate to the activity or product represented on the advertisement. According to Kurtz and Dave (2010), in so doing, they aim at either increasing the demand of the product, to inform the consumer of the existence, or to differentiate that product from other existing one in the market. Therefore, the advertiser’s aim should at all times try as much as possible to stay relevant and to the point.
Advertising has influenced teenagers in a profound way. The influence of advertising has affected teenagers in a way they are persistently exposed by means of television programs, articles in magazines, product endorsement ads, and through the internet. Although teenagers are excessively exposed, how they perceive and process advertisements ultimately determines how they are influenced. With that said, the perception towards advertisements can be amalgamated between reality and fantasy, which evidently has both negative and positive impacts. Advertisers strategically capitalize on what is trending in youth culture which makes teenagers most pervasive to wanting to fit in. The societal culture in advertising plays a crucial role in the way teenagers
Advertising can mean many different things in today’s world. When advertising first was developed it was done by would of mouth and the classic flyer or poster, which is the traditional media. Then it moved up to using broadcast media such as radio to help capture a bigger audience. After that it moved towards the television where an even bigger audience could be reached. Lastly companies started to realize the shear amount of traffic that was generated by the Internet.
Advertising has been an essential source for aiding in global consumption. Individuals in society work to be able to spend their money, and advertisement play a big role in where money is being spent. Ads are very diverse and often consist of an array of fields in which consumers are targeted. Ranging from food, health, clothing, sports, image, lifestyle, etc. Ads provide important means of influence on our society. Ads often play the role of persuade people to come buy products from a specific distributor. On average an individual is exposed to 3000 plus more ads daily, via TV, Internet, print, billboards, etc. In the past decade though ads have drastically changed due to the ever-growing digital era we are living in. Digital technology has assisted in the industry making changes to accommodate our tech-savvy society. Changes in the advertising industry have occurred due to the adoption of the Internet, social media, television, and mobile technology.
Advertising has been defined as the most powerful, persuasive, and manipulative tool that firms have to control consumers all over the world. It is a form of communication that typically attempts to persuade potential customers to purchase or to consume more of a particular brand of product or service. Its impacts created on the society throughout the years has been amazing, especially in this technology age. Influencing people’s habits, creating false needs, distorting the values and priorities of our society with sexism and feminism, advertising has become a poison snake ready to hunt his prey. However, on the other hand, advertising has had a positive effect as a help of the economy and society.
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