What is "subliminal advertising", and is it still illegal these days or has that changed?

Answer 1

"Subliminal advertising is a technique of exposing consumers to product pictures, brand names, or other marketing stimuli without the consumers having conscious awareness. Once exposed to a subliminal marketing stimulus, the consumer is believed to decode the information and act upon it without being able to acknowledge a communication stimulus."
http://www.ciadvertising.org/student_account/spring_01/adv391k/hjy/adv382j/1st/application.html

It is illegal, but it is also rumored not to be real.

Answer 2

I gotta say that understand completely. I've got a friend who was entering a convenience store minding his own business when an uninsured, unlicensed illegal motorist drove into him and the store he was entering. Now he must to go to the Dr. once a month to have fluid drained from his spinal cord. No one will hire him even though he's willing to sign a workman's comp waiver in order to work. Insurance companies won't insure him. He's forced to be on social security and not even getting enough to support his family much less pay his mortgage. He would much rather be working. This state is a 'no fault' state and the person who hit him and the store got a $45 fine from a judge who said there was nothing else he could do.

Answer 3

subliminal advertising is legal in most places,but almost no one uses it because it has been proven uneffective.An example would be flashing a brand name for half a second during a tv show

Answer 4

I think its still illegal, but it has also been proven to not work, so nobody uses it anyway.