Youtube Should Be Banned

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A) Post a link to one of your favorite ads and in short essay format, answer the following questions: Does it persuade you? How? Why do you like it? Is there anything problematic about the ad? Also included a link to an ineffective ad, providing evidence that the ad campaign failed (cite your source in proper APA or MLA format). In your summary, explain (in your opinion) why one ad succeeds and the other fails. One of my favorite ads is the infamous ad produced by Apple, Inc. The ad can be found on Youtube, and the link is as follows: .https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mpM5nzSEyXE. The advertisement is was used to show Apple’s new iPod back in 2004. The iPod changed the music industry. Before the iPod, there was no access to digital music on …show more content…

I first read about the ad on google, so I decided to YouTube the ad. The advertisement is comical, yet awkward. The link to the YouTube ad is as follows: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yfFs0o6pCxc. The Ayds candy diet was a fad in the 1970’s that essentially was an appetite suppressant. It proved itself to be effective in the 1970’s and the sales numbers showed just that. However, when AIDS came about in the 1980’s, the Ayds candy diet took a left turn. According to the Associated Press, by 1988, the Ayds Weight-Loss sales had plummeted more than 50 percent (Ayds Weight-Loss Candy. (2006, February 21). The advertisement had the same name as the deadly disease that also resulted in severe weight-loss. Because people closely associated the names of the fad diet, and an incurable disease, it was instantly unappealing to its intended audience. People were making a direction correlation between the two, despite there was no parallel between the two. The parallel that was being made was a direct contribution to the company’s product …show more content…

In the video, 30 students were waking up early to help people begin their day with a smile. They put people in a much better mood and really can go a long way. According to Berg, Soderland and Lindstrom, smiles are a “… dominant facial expression on a human model in visual marketing” (The Truth Behind Why Smiles Sell And What This Means For Your Ads. (n.d.). These college students probably gave smiles to people on their way to work. According to CBS News, “…a new survey that found only 45 percent of Americans are satisfied with their work” (Survey: More Americans Unhappy at Work. ((2010, January 05) From this one can conclude the college students waking up early to spread positivity also addressed a much bigger issue, and left them in a better mood on their way to a job they may not be satisfied

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