any thoughts on subliminal advertising?

Question

im writing a report for school and need to write an outline any thoughts on what i should include? what do you think about subliminal advertising? is it right or wrong?

despite popular belief subliminal advertising is NOT illegal just so you know

oh wait screw what i just said yes it is illegal sorry

Answer 1

It doesn't work the way most people think. You can't flash "drink coke" on the screen for a fraction of a second and people will start to want coke. What you can do is show happy, beautiful people enjoying coke, and people will slowly begin to associate coke with happiness and beauty.

Answer 2

Hey well I can certainly share my thoughts. I totally understand what you mean about how if our minds can not notice that the subliminal message is there, then we can not percieve it and it is useless. But my thought on that is that the advertising will cause you to think something, so that even though you aren't thinking of the product itself, you may think of something related to it which will then cause you to think of the product. For example a sublimal message might tell you to watch tv, where on tv you will see ads for that product. Well, I know that one beer company a while ago would always show ice cubes in their glasses of beer. And in the ice if you looked really carefully would read the word 'sex' and sometimes it had stretched out skulls. Subliminal advertising can also be gone in a physical form where there was one case where I show company would spray a sent in the four corners of their store every half hour. not the smell was very faint but it was strong enough for people's noses to smell it and feel real good about themselves. Therefore a happy customer was more willing to buy. There are also other little tricks that companies have used. One really famous doghnut shop, I bet you can guess which one I am talking about.....Well you know when you buy a cofee how the cups are usually card boardish. Well they would lave the cup laced with I think it was caffeine so that when you held the cup the particles of caffeine would sink into your hand. Then when you lifted the cup to your mouth to drink it you could smell the caffeine therefore making people believe it was the coffe that they were enjoying. Now I am not saying that the coffee was bad, just that it was a little bit of an extra "umph" added into it. Well for your report however I think you should try and find more examples of similar cases. I also think you should research the history behind it, try and find where it was first being used and the different techniques behind how it developed and became so effective. So hey that is all I got too say, I hope you do good on your report. Good luck:)

Answer 3

There is a way to avoid all advertising, whenever a commercial comes on press the mute button and if there is subliminal advertising, it will never reach you.

Answer 4

Yes it was outlawed about the same time Television was developing and was outlawed shortly there after. It was actually use by theaters during the show to sell more pop, popcorn and candy. While it is still being used today, mostly underground stuff, it is not main stream and is generally not considered a fair practice.

Good luck with your report.

Answer 5

It is wrong because the product that is being sold is decieving. Plus, subliminal advertising has been shown not to be effective.

Answer 6

I haven't noticed any subliminal advertising. I guess that's the point, though.

Answer 7

I think it is wrong and if a company has to resort to subliminal advertising, my feeling is that their product probably SUCKS....its very deceptive.

Answer 8

It has been going on since first TV and Movies, does not bother me, I have a mind of my own.

Answer 9

Well to the US government they believe its wrong, thats why its illegal.