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“Liking Isn’t Helping” It’s becoming more common that a charity’s Facebook page has more “likes” than the organization has volunteers or donations. This advertisement, created by the Crisis Relief Singapore, shows people that “likes” just aren’t enough. The tagline says it all. “Liking isn’t helping”. The purpose of this ad is to encourage people to take action instead of solely supporting the cause on social media. To accomplish this purpose, the creator has used a very powerful image and tagline. This is significant because it forces people to see the truth and makes it difficult to ignore the message being conveyed. This image depicts a woman holding a child who looks injured. Surrounding …show more content…
them, there is a circle of hands giving a thumbs-up to represent “likes” on Facebook. There is also a very powerful one-sentence tagline on the image (“liking isn’t helping”). This is the first ad that conveys the message that social media popularity isn’t doing as much to help the cause. Although it is true that volunteering and donating is much more helpful, spreading the campaign around social media does help in some ways. Sharing the ad on Facebook is bringing more attention to the campaign itself.
Thus, more people receive the message. More people receiving the message means that there is more chance of donation and volunteer work being done. At this point, the advertisement has had enough popularity on social media and it is time to take real action. As mentioned earlier, this ad has a very impactful tagline. “Liking isn’t helping” sums up the meaning behind this image. The text helps further the power behind this ad. One of the reasons the tagline is so impactful is because it is short and blunt. Instead of writing a paragraph full of statistics, the text puts the truth where everyone can see it. That also means that the audience cannot ignore the truth. In addition to knowing the truth, the audience also responds to the use of pathos in this visual text. The image evokes sadness and pity. Using a person’s emotions is one of the easiest ways to convince them to take action. When someone sees this advertisement, they feel bad for the person in the picture and if they can, they either donate or volunteer. For instance, if a company makes an advertisement or commercial about shelter dogs, they are likely to use sad music and pictures of dogs behind cages to make it seem very sad. The company could claim that they will make a donation to the shelter if you buy their brand of dog food. As a result, the next time a person is buying dog food they will remember the advertisement and buy that brand
of dog food. In a way, this makes it easier for people to “donate” and they feel like they’re making a difference. The company also makes good sales because they played on people’s emotions. To summarize, many companies and organizations use people’s emotions to encourage them to take action, or in some cases, buy their product. This advertisement is the perfect example of pathos. The impactful image and text help to further the level of sympathy that a person has towards the people depicted in this advertisement. For this reason, I believe that the creator of this advertisement has conveyed their message extremely well.
While posing as a comical relief to life’s monotony, ads actually evoke a subconscious reaction to human interaction, promising something we all desire, love. Through this evoked emotion, the unknown and unpredictable human relationship is replaced by a guaranteed acceptance, by having stuff.
Almost every commercial uses Pathos, an appeal to emotions, to convince the viewer that their product is the best choice for them. The use of Pathos enables the persuader to reach out to the audience in a subconscious or even unconscious level. Emotion creates a bond with the viewer and the advertiser. Liberty Mutual commercials convince us that they provide the best coverage and benefits, such as 24 hour road side assistance and easy repair estimates. In particular, their commercials stand out as as one who uses humor and fear, and then provides reassurance to coax us to chose their insurance over others.
What a good way to urge viewers to donate money than by showing in the commercial pictures of sorry looking animals? The type of objects they use are cages, crates, and the animals. It targets any animal or anybody in reality because they can see that these animals are in need of help, also that these animals have been abused. This commercial has demographic is an extremely important factor in commercial productions, the fact that so many different people are susceptible to the pathos of the commercial to the point of tears. This commercial had a use of music and it also plays an important role in the use of pathos. The song “In the arms of an Angel” by Sarah MacLauchlan has a part that makes me sad every time I seen the commercial “There always some reason, to feel not good enough” (Sarah McLachlan SPCA, n.d.) and this is sad because these animals don’t feel good enough and you can tell by their
emotions. Sut Jhally describes ads as "the dream life of our culture" and explains the persuasive
Advertisers all have one goal in common, that is an ad that is catching to a consumer’s attention. In today’s fast paced society there are so many selling products and charities. As I exam the advertisement for the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty for Animals (ASPCA), I will show how they use the pathos, ethos, and logos – also known as Aristotle’s Theory of Persuasion.
In their advertisements, the St. Jude Children’s Hopsital Research Foundation packs their thirty second commercials with as many rhetorical appeals as possible. The purpose of these celebrity-endorsed commercials is to encourage viewers to donate to the foundation, and the producers have creatively inserted various rhetorical appeals in hopes to sway viewers to open their wallets. By using an immense amount of rhetorical appeal; including ethos, pathos, logos, and kairos, the St. Jude Children’s Hospital Research Foundation has successfully created an informative and heartfelt commercial that has inspired many to donate to medical research for children.
This advertisement features Pathos, because the little boy in the advertisement will probably make people feel guilty, because they spend a lot of money on unnecessary things and waste it, but this child says “Don’t I deserve a happy life?”, and this will probably make people from our society want to spend money to support this cause. This advertisement also features patriotism, because it suggests that purchasing this product will show the love, and support you have towards your country. This company makes people from America want to support this cause. It says in the advertisement,” Help stop child poverty in America”. This advertisement also features Transfer andWeasel Words because it uses positive words, and positive images to suggest that the product being sold is also positive.
These commercials make the audience feel fear, love, guilt, or joy about the situation being shown. The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals or ASPCA for short shows commercials to get donations that will help prevent animal cruelty and rescue animals all across the country. I have not seen this commercial on any of the apps on my phone however this is a commercial that I see often on regular television. The target audience of these commercials is animal lovers; it could be a child or an adult. The use of Pathos in the promotion of joining the ASPCA or giving a one-time donation uses animals that look sad, hurt, homeless, abused or scared needing help. It is very effective as it makes the intended audience either want to donate to help the animals or to rescue one through adoption to give it a better life. The type of music played goes along with the feeling of sadness and helplessness that the animals are feeling and makes the audiences feel sad as well. These commercials also either use the voice of a celebrity or show the celebrity holding a dog or cat while giving information about how to help the animals. The audience is shown abused, beaten, or neglected animals and asked for donations to help give medical care, food, shelter, and love to them. The commercial is effective as it pulls at the emotions of animal lovers
This advertisement from the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA) immediately affects the viewer’s emotions. By playing sad music in the background while images of scared and injured animals pass the screen, the creators of this advertisement are successful in compelling many viewers to open up their wallets and donate to the cause. Through the use of common rhetorical devices as well as less obvious strategies, this advertisement targets the viewer’s mind and succeeds in its goal of presenting the topic as a problem that needs to be solved. However, it is interesting to consider whether the problem that should be addressed is really animal neglect or something bigger, like the fact that many citizens prioritize
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.
Then the viewer understands that this advertisement is about marijuana. In this advertisement, Pathos, which is used for emotional appeal, is embedded efficiently. Also, it is the best choice for this anti-drug ad and more suitable than ethos or logos because appealing to a person’s character or logic does not work so much for the marijuana addicts. That is why this image successfully persuades people to disregard the risks of marijuana. First, the ad tells the story of an accident that was caused by a person who smoked weed.
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.
A good advertisement always can leave a deep impression to the audience. It associates with the rhetorical skill to represent the meaning of advertisement. An advertisement I want to discuss is about domestic violence topic. (this advertisement from Amnesty International). It is a public service advertising. The purpose is hope three types of audiences can pay more attention to domestic violence and makes an effective use of pathos by appealing the sympathy of the audience. This is the most impressive ad I have ever seen.
The video describes how our society may not even care about the product being advertised, but we still read the billboard or watch the commercial. Also mentioned was the use of colors in a commercial, the marketing effects in politics, and even market research obtained by studying different cults. Frontline takes an in-depth look at the multibillion-dollar “persuasion industries” of advertising and how this rhetoric affects everyone. So whether this is in the form of a television commercial or a billboard, pathos, logos, and ethos can be found in all advertisements.
The way that the ad plays out is a mimesis imitating the quick loss of security that these victims face. Furthermore, seeing the progression of a once happy girl, to a sad and disconnected girl influences the audience’s emotions. What once seemed impossible and distant to the audience is now real and