Advertisements try to appeal to people of a certain demographic to buy things by playing on things that are important to each demographic or tailoring their products to appeal to a certain demographic, whether that demographic is age, gender, ethnicity, or something else entirely
2007-02-25 01:28:59
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answered by crzywriter 5
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Without advertising you would have to pay a month's salary to purchase a magazine or newspaper! Ads are the MAJOR revenue source for most publications. Subscription and newsstand purchases come nowhere close to offsetting the cost of staffing, printing, and distribution.
Ad-free TV is possible, but the costs have to be met somewhere. In the absence of ads you'd be subsdising TV productions via taxes and -- possibly -- TV licenses (as in the UK) that have to be purchased by the user.
Yes, I know, you are paying indirectly for the costs of advertising when you purchase a product. To my way of thinking, there is more of a personal choice in this system. You can choose to purchase or not, watch or not, etc. If you pay taxes in the UK, the government allocates part of your income tax revenues to the cost of running the BBC -- whether you watch TV, regardless of even if you have a TV set!
I would rather have my monies be used in supporting advertising and related industries, rather than generating more IRS jobs.
As to the usages of advertising, very briefly......
A) Create awareness;
B) Create the desire to make a purchase/sample a service.
After that the product has to deliver to maintain the consumer's loyalty.
2007-02-25 14:22:55
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answered by Lady Yaz 3
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Some points good and bad.
While advertising can be seen as necessary for economic growth, it is not without social costs. Unsolicited Commercial Email and other forms of spam have become so prevalent as to have become a major nuisance of users of these services, as well as being a financial burden on internet service providers Advertising is increasingly invading public spaces, such as schools, which some critics argue is a form of child exploitation . One scholar has argued that advertising is a toxic by-product of industrial society which may bring about the end of life on earth .
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2007-02-25 01:50:40
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answered by Mmmmm 7
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Because it makes us aware as to what products and services are available in the market and it gives us choices from among them. Of course, the downside is there are a lot of false advertising because no product would ever claim to be less than its competitior. Then again, the intelligent consumer can use ads to think about (even test) the claims of these products and services.
2007-02-25 01:45:08
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answered by raymundr 2
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Honestly there not as effective as corporations like to believe. Physiological impervious over here.
2007-02-25 01:33:38
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answered by Anonymous
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