I find advertising obnoxious and tedious but there is a lot of clever work gone into it. Pity the brains behind it did not put their heads to better use than to sell lipstick or cars or the latest toy.
2006-10-06 14:22:50 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Business & Finance ➔ Advertising & Marketing ➔ Search Engine Optimization
It is a form of brainwashing, and some of it can be a bit insulting because using a particular fabric conditioner is not going to change your life in any significant way! I also hate those commercials for razors like Gillette, etc. because when they show the guy shaving it's obvious that he has already shaved! What's the point, that just tells me you've got no confidence in the product or you think I'm too much of a moron to realise. If I were to shave as free and easy as the guy in the commercial, I'd be standing in a pool of my own blood at the end of that particular shave! [Sorry, had to have a moan about that]. The only purpose it serves is that it does bring to your attention certain products which are of use to you and which you would not know about.....or which you would not know about as quickly. But they love to go way over-the-top!
2006-10-06 14:30:44 · answer #1 · answered by John P 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Advertising isn't supposed to necessarily be informational. It's task is to hook the viewer in such a way that they are compelled to buy the product. It isn't brainwashing because you don't blindly go out and buy a product. It's a choice.
More often then not people use products that construct who they are as a person. A guy who wears Nike sneakers vs. a guy who wears Docksiders could both be exposed to the same commercials, but choose differently according to their lifestyle and how they define themselves.
2006-10-06 15:23:12 · answer #2 · answered by leannainpa 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The problem with advertising is that it is the large multi national companies that can afford to pay for it, meaning that small companies have no chance of competition against them!
The majority of advertising is to try and convince you that you cannot live without things you really have no use for!!
2006-10-06 14:31:58 · answer #3 · answered by libbyft 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Sometimes advertising starts ridicules and harmful trends: stick shaped women are the beautiful and successful ones. Only skinny people get dates and are happy...
How about Cheers was about having fun in a bar...a great social gathering with fun people. This concept is shown in advertisements.
Truth is just the opposite. I was raised by a bar-tending woman. She was always talking about the fights, cops coming to break it up, cleaning up smelly sickening throw-up on the floor, and couple fights, and the place was always just in dim light where you could just barely make out who a person was if you were close enough to them.
But some are good info-mercials where a person is educated about a useful product.
2006-10-06 15:08:04 · answer #4 · answered by deburleigh 3 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Advertising NEVER makes you buy something you don't already, all it does is potentially makes you switch brands. And if you're like me, actually stops you buying something you love because you hate the advert that much!
2006-10-06 14:26:08 · answer #5 · answered by alfie 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
No. I wouldn't be swayed one way or the other by advertisements. They are wasted on me. I always decide for myself.
2006-10-06 14:37:19 · answer #6 · answered by Learner 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
You should check out information on what Karl Marx said about commodity fetishism and false conscience. Interesting stuff on the subject.
2006-10-06 14:25:40 · answer #7 · answered by scotttorrez 2 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Yes because its a play on words and our minds .
2006-10-06 14:25:55 · answer #8 · answered by djonecat@yahoo.com 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋