Advertisements tend to make you want to buy their product by having the image jump out at you. Some are selling the item and others are preventing you from buying it. Some use famous faces to make you envy the way that they look. Cover Girl is one of the envious ones. Cover Girl uses famous faces like Sofia Vergara to promote their products. Advertisers are constantly trying new ways to catch the consumers eyes such as using signs, advertising strategies, advertising formats, exemplifying the product being used, modes of address, and using their brand, all of which are strategically executed to make you want to purchase their products.
Seventeen Magazine is a magazine that targets teenagers and young adults (mainly female). This magazine focuses
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The first one is that it “showcases the product and its qualities.” This advertisement is for Cover Girl’s new Outlast Stay Luminous Foundation. Like some products such as teeth whitening strips, their ads show you how your teeth will look after using their product, this ad shows you how your skin will look while wearing this product. This product will make your skin look flawless and make you feel flawless while wearing it. Another strategy talks about how you feel if you use it and how others will feel if you don’t use it. If you use this product you will have perfect radiant skin with no imperfections whatsoever. Your skin will always be moisturized and smooth. It will give you the confidence you need to do everyday tasks. If you don’t use this product your skin will be dull and dry and look horrible. People will be constantly judging you on the way you look because your skin isn’t flawless. You wont be accepted into the “it” crowd. The last format is that it features a person (Advertising Strategies.) In this ad a famous person is featured: Sofia Vergara. Sofia Vergara is the face of beauty for this advertisement from Cover Girl. She has the face that every woman wants and that every man wishes he could get with. By using this product everyday women can achieve the look of Sofia Vergara and be the “smoking hot” celebrity that every woman wants to be. Sofia Vergara isn’t the only Cover Girl spokes model; …show more content…
When there are many companies out there with the same products, these companies rely on branding to get their products across (Advertising Strategies.) Cover Girl is a very popular cosmetic brand, but there are other brands just like it. What makes Cover Girl so different from its competitors are the amounts of ads it has, not just in print but also commercials, as well as the sponsorship it has. In just this issue of Seventeen Magazine there were over eight Cover Girl advertisements. Commercials for Cover Girl are seen on the daily. But what makes Cover Girl so unique is its relationship with America’s Next Top Model. America’s Next Top Model is actually sponsored by Cover Girl. During each season there is an episode where the models have to create their own Cover Girl commercial using their slogan “Easy Breezy Beautiful Cover Girl.” Besides that, the winner of the show actually gets a modeling contract with Cover
Since the beginning of media and advertising, marketers have employed subtle tactics to attract a more diverse customer base. In Jib Fowles essay, “Advertising's Fifteen Basic Appeals”, he discusses the fifteen appeals advertisers use to engage the consumer’s interest in buying their products. These different advertising techniques are directed towards a target audience; including males, females, elders, and teenagers. However, in some cases, the Carls Jr ad being analyzed has multiple audiences; primarily the male and female audiences. The male audience is more influenced by the sex appeal in the ad (i.e., the use of a model and suggestive wording), meanwhile the female audience is more influenced by the desire for attention and acceptance.
This Covergirl ad uses ethos, pathos, and logos to address women between the ages of 18-45 to use Lashblast mascara if they want to look like famous celebrity’s. Covergirl’s ad interprets ethos to gain trust from the audience. This Covergirl ad is gaining creditability by empowering a very successful actress and model to be on the cover of one of their items. Covergirl is well known drug store makeup brand.
Covergirl Claims Many companies use empty or non specific words in their advertisements to make consumers believe claims that are not really present in their advertisements. William Lutz explores these "weasel words" in his essay and examines how companies use these words and accompanying media in order to mislead unsuspecting consumers (Lutz 569). Covergirl's advertisements for its Super Sizer Fibers mascara is a perfect example of Lutz's ideas. In their advertisements for the Super Sizer Fibers mascara, Covergirl clearly uses ambiguous words and phrases coupled with deceiving media to make misleading or empty claims about its product. Covergirl's commercial for the Super Sizer Fibers mascara stars the young actress, Zendaya, and features
It then switches over to a picture of the foundation makeup and states on screen, “New natureluxe silk foundation.” I found the Covergirl commercial to be the perfect opportunity to write about. The speaker can clearly be identified as Taylor Swift. The claim in Covergirl advertisement
They use words such as breath, fresh, and silky. those words coupled with the silk drapes hanging from the ceiling along with the silk skirt that Taylor is wearing combine to produce a joyful feeling as the view watches the commercial. Covergirl is a brand of makeup that is generally marketed towards high schoolers that usually cannot afford the more expensive luxury brands. This demographic is going through one of the hardest times in their life superficially speaking. they are told that they have to live up to a certain unattainable standard they are excepted to be tall and skinny with flawless skin, so when cover girl use their emotionally charged mottos “Easy, Breezy, Beautiful, Covergirl” they are using the girl’s hopeful emotional desire to be those things to manipulate them into purchasing their product.
Figure 2 is an image put out by the worldwide makeup brand Covergirl. The ad uses Taylor Swift, a beautiful celebrity to endorse their product. By using a beautiful celebrity, Covergirl is trying to engage with the audience and appeal to their interests. Swift’s flawless skin targets the average woman’s emotions, evoking the need for flawless skin. Now this average woman is thinking that if a big name celebrity uses Covergirl brand to achieve beauty, then she should go out and purchase it for herself as well.
“A picture is worth a thousand words” ever heard that saying before if so it is because that phrase can be considered true. When someone looks at a magazine, they see articles, essays, and visuals based off of products or events that have recently taken place. The visual is an advertisement which explains why a person gains so much information from it rather than having to read the article that maybe followed by it. An advertisement is a visual representation for a product that a person is either trying to sell or persuade someone to buy. The root word in advertisement is advertise which is a verb and it is the action of drawing attention to a prototype, service, or an event.
Women are made to look sexual for anything they are selling, even if the product they are selling has nothing to do with anything sexual. Sex is appealing to most people. Companies use that to their advantage by putting some form of sex on a page to grab the audience's attention, which makes them stop and want to product they are selling. Kilbourne shows images of ads where women are being controlled, punished by the man. Advertisements like these are examples of taking something horrible in the world and glorifying it to the benefit of having a decent advertisement.
Ellen and Sofia’s commercial uses humor to sell their product. Queen Latifah tells her audience that they can save time and money by using the product she is advertising because it can save them time and money (Queen). They also use the tagine “Department store beautiful for less” (Drew). They are trying to convince the audience to buy the product by saying that it is just as good as department store brands, and it is cheaper than the department store brand. It is good quality makeup for less.
During the 21st century, advertisements use many methods to attract the audience. Companies, especially cosmetic companies, use their advertisements to manipulate their viewers to make them think that they need their beauty products. Revlon is a perfect example of these cosmetic companies that play with your mind. Revlon’s mascara commercial campaign utilizes ethos, pathos, and logos. Ethos is shown in many advertisements of Revlon’s mascara campaign.
Commercials serve as time fillers while a viewer anticipates the return of the program. The ads are targeted towards the audience in an effort to sell consumers products. For a commercial to be effective it must be able to make its mark on the viewer whether that be positive or negative to help shape an opinion of the product on the consumer. Within these ads, viewers are being exposed to two different forms of meanings, connotational and denotational. The denotational meaning of a commercial is apparent or obvious.
GENDER & ITS ROLE IN ADVERTISING Nowadays, in society, the role of male and female have changed dramatically, as opposed to the prominent roles in history. Today women are changing to break out of the mold that which our society has placed her in. This is cannot be when it comes to role representation in the different advertisements. Nowadays different organization from medium to large are spending millions of dollars on developing their marketing strategies. They spent countless hours to study their target audience to study them so that they can attract them a better way to their competitors.
The general message that Covergirl and Revlon are trying to get across through their advertisements is that people will look their best with the products in the advertisements. The covergirl advertisement emphasis that people “try [Covergirl’s] #1 eyeshadow, mascara, and liner together for [their] best look.” By stating that people will look their best with all three products,
The ad features three Angels in VS lingerie with the slogan “I Love My Body” on the right and a description underneath. The central focus of the advert is the three models on the left and their facial expressions are smug and seductive, as if they were beckoning us to come look at the ad. They also seem confident, which connects to the phrase on the right, “I Love My Body”, showing that they are confident and
For instance, the ring shows a happily married woman that is healthy and beautiful. The ad is targeting middle-aged woman with high social standing. The use of nutritional values such as vitamin E and C in the ad relates to the healthy skin revealed on the face, neck, throat, and back of the woman's hand. Thus, the skin product is depicted to add health benefits to the users by revealing oily and tender skin at the center of the photograph. There are also syntagmatic relations created by the sequence of words in the advert on the skin advert.