In today’s society, advertisements have become a major part of our everyday lives. No matter where we are, they are all around us. However, we never really realize how much of an influence they have on us. There’s a deeper, more complex process that goes into the making of advertisements that companies implement in an attempt to persuade you to buy their product. For example, let’s take a look at a print advertisement by Maximuscle for their product, a high protein beverage called “Maxi-Milk”. Their ad displays an image of shirtless, well-built, muscular man wearing shorts hanging on from a cliff with one hand, while drinking the beverage with the other hand with a fearless look. The bottom right corner of the ad displays the product with milk splashing from underneath it, and the background portrays an extravagant view of mountains with a blue sky, and their slogan that reads, “MILK for REAL MEN”. This advertisement makes it aware that it’s aimed …show more content…
Their technique to successfully catch the attention of the audience was to emphasize their slogan in big bold white letters, and also emphasize that their drink, “BUILDS LEAN MUSCLES”, as a way to reinforce their idea of masculinity. The man shown in the campaign is none other than former Royal Marines Commando Officer, physical training instructor, and ambassador of Maximuscle, Sean Lerwill(seanwiller.com). This is an effective strategy because it makes him credible as it uses his social status and fame to catch the attention of the audience and lure them into buying their product. The fact that it shows man who seems to be physically fit hanging from a cliff conveys that he is tough and fearless which presents an idea to the audience of what a man should look like. Therefore, the message the company is trying to send is that consuming their beverage “Maxi-Milk” will give you the traits of a “real
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.
Majority of parents today, truly care about their children’s health. As any kid will say, growing up there are “Got Milk?” ads everywhere. These ads are in schools, on television, in magazines; they’re everywhere. In the year 2000, Frankie Muniz was an up and coming star in the television industry, thanks to Malcolm in the Middle. The producers of the “Got Milk? ad wanted to grab people’s attention, so they decided to debut Frankie Muniz in his first milk ad. This ad is aimed at not only children, but at parents in order to get them to have their kids drink milk. This ad effectively achieves its goal because of the use of a child star, the credibility of the ads reputation, and the words placed on the ad.
In 2011, Dr. Pepper 10 released a new ad campaign. Their new commercial’s primary purpose is to present a soda that is both healthy and still “manly.” In doing this, Dr. Pepper addressed a longstanding notion that Diet Dr. Pepper and Dr. Pepper Zero sodas are inherently unmanly. They attempted to reconcile this societal belief by creating a character that is extremely manly and still enjoys their 10 calorie drink. The average man is the target audience. They were hoping that they could target men that may want to drink more healthy beverages while still retaining their manliness. The character that Dr. Pepper creates to target this audience is a Paul Bunyan type. The actor has a long beard, is very rugged looking and shown being rowed down a river by a bear. The commercial is designed to bring back images of Grizzly Adams.
Imagine this: You are home and flipping through the channels on your television one late night. Every channel you flip through, there is a commercial. One commercial is for food, the next commercial is for the latest phone. What do all these advertisements have in common? They want to sell as much as possible to the consumer. But how do these advertisements persuade an average consumer to purchase their product or services? Advertisers use an abundance of techniques to unconsciously motivate consumers to purchase or share information about the advertisement’s goods or services. What language and techniques do three different commercials contain and how do these elements affect an audience? In the end, it is important to remember that commercials
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.
Every day in today’s world, people encounter advertisements through various media forms such as television commercials, magazine ads and billboards. Through advertisements, advertisers can persuade their viewers to buy their products through persuasive tactics. In a September 21, 2015 Sports Illustrated issue, Gieco Insurance ran an ad which used subtle hidden messages, encouraging words, and appetizing images to create a desire for its product.
The ad campaign is funny to the point that the commercial is pretty much making fun of itself. The sex appeal is apparent as the bare-chested man sells the product of a man, man. The product name and logo are repeated and shown throughout the entire ad, making repetition a strong selling point. This advertisement is effective because it appeals to a wide audience using humor, sexual appeal, and repetition to sell the product. Women like attractive men, but they also like men who are adventurous, handy, charismatic, and intriguing.
The first thing you notice in this advertisement is the model.Mikael Forssell is a Finnish international football striker currently playing for Veikkausliiga club HJK. He is an athletes used as a spokesperson to produce the appeal of ethos. Ethos is credibility (or character) of the speaker. An audience is more likely to be persuaded by someone who they trust, in this case, a famous athlete. The image shows figures in the background as water figures, which emphasize that those figures didn’t drink Gatorade, they drunk water. While Forssell is exercising in the front, in bright red, the water figures are running out of energy to carry on. If they did
“Living in an age of advertisement, we are perpetually disillusioned.” ~J.B. Priestley sums up the reality of our media today. We are constantly being influenced and affected by advertisements and how we react to them. Advertisements have a great effect on us and how we operate. Advertisements attempt to control what we should wear, how we should look, what we should eat, what we should do, how we should think, and how we should smell. This magazine advertisement is very convincing of what type of perfume we should wear. “Moschino Couture!” uses an attractive woman, simplistic layout and sample perfume to sell us the product we all yearn for.
In almost any commercial you watch today, you will notice that they rarely tell you something about the product being sold. Neil Postman stated, “The television commercial is not all about the character of the product to be consumed. It’s about the character of the consumers of products” (128). I find this very true. Commercials combine the use of sight, sound, color, motion, and often humor to put forth an effective message. Within a short period of time, these advertisements can capture one’s attention and convince one to buy their product. It doesn’t matter if the product has value, as long as the advertisers are able to make a consumer believe it does. Playing off of emotions is one of the most effective ways to lure people in because you can’t refute emotions. Commercials can effectively manipulate and create false perception using emotional appeal to further benefit the advertiser.
This book has opened a whole new perspective on advertising and the reasons we buy things and regret them later. Thinking that I have the urge for a McDonalds hamburger may feel real, or it might just be an elaborate, expensive advertising technique used to manipulate my buying behavior.
Charles A O’Neil explains how advertising is made of a simple language which includes short words, pictures, symbol and slogans. He writes that advertisements is being edited into its simplicity form which is the advertising language. These advertisements may seem casual and natural but they are carefully made to get our attention into buying what they are selling. “Every successful advertisement uses a creative strategy based on an idea intended to attract and hold the attention of the targeted consumer audience”. O’Neil also lets us be aware that advertisement wasn’t as easy as we thought it was, like slogans have been engineered so that we remember them even if we refuse to, or that images have been carefully chosen
The advertising industry has always used creative ways to bring in consumers to the product being promoted. In the recent twenty years however, advertising methods have become more and more controversial, many times using one-hundred percent fake images to catch the consumer’s eye. Competition is tough; thousands and thousands of products are being advertised every day. Although with the constant stream of advertisements, society becomes more and more numb to them. Advertisers go further and further in their quest to grab attention.
The Illusion of Advertisements Advertisements are pieces of art or literary work that are meant to make the viewer or reader associate with the activity or product represented in 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 ones in the market. Therefore, the advertiser’s aim should at all times try as much as possible to stay relevant and to the point. The advert alongside is simple and straight to the point. It contains very few details but extremely large content with the choice of words and graphics.
We see advertisements all around us. They are on television, in magazines, on the Internet, and plastered up on large billboards everywhere. Ads are nothing new. Many individuals have noticed them all of their lives and have just come to accept them. Advertisers use many subliminal techniques to get the advertisements to work on consumers. Many people don’t realize how effective ads really are. One example is an advertisement for High Definition Television from Samsung. It appears in an issue of Entertainment Weekly, a very popular magazine concerning movies, music, books, and other various media. The magazine would appeal to almost anyone, from a fifteen-year-old movie addict to a sixty-five-year-old soap opera lover. Therefore the ad for the Samsung television will interest a wide array of people. This ad contains many attracting features and uses its words cunningly in order to make its product sound much more exciting and much better than any television would ever be.