External Environment
The specific environment of most advertising agencies is made up of mainly customers and competitors. The agencies are constantly competing against each other to get clients. The advertising agencies are their own suppliers in the sense that they create and design campaigns that will help their clients in selling their products and services. Mediacom’s main competitors in the Middle East are Prism action communications, 02 network, JWT Dubai and Crayons Communications. There has been history of political instability in the Middle East region and parts of North Africa. It is not a good climate for any business activity to take place as it slows down economic activities. According to an article by Pamela Smith, she states that Reda Raad, CEO for MENA at the TBWA/RAAD agency was quoted by a local media in the UAE saying "Just as we were seeing the light at the end of the tunnel following the global financial crisis, we find ourselves now in a completely different challenge, involving political instability and the creation of democratic fever that is out of our control" (Smith, 2011). This comment by the CEO explains how the countries in the Middle East are vulnerable to political instability. He further stated that economic activity in Egypt reduced due to the uprising. There are also government regulations in Middle Eastern countries that adhere to Islamic laws. The advertising agencies must adhere to these laws and must not advertise alcoholic beverages,
So overall is this advertisement effective? I would argue yes, the ad is appealing to people who drink causally or just to get drunk, so long as they don’t have an aversion to
The truth is that the corporation makes decisions that they want people to make, whether it is to buy a new tv or go to a certain school. The corporations are able to determine what advertisements each person will have. Similarly, media serves the same purpose today. Harvard researchers found “marketers have been able to gain unprecedented insight into consumers and serve up solutions tailored to their individual needs” (John). Everything people search can be seen and used by marketers to customizes advertisements.
With market advertising “for every dollar per capita spent on advertising in the market, individuals consumed 3% more alcoholic beverages per month” (Leslie Snyder). Places that showed high levels of alcohol advertising, saw an increase in drinking in older youth. Places that saw small levels of alcohol advertising, saw a decrease in drinking. Age groups varied with drinking such as “younger age groups show an increase in drinking over time but at a slower rate than peers in markets with high levels of advertising expenditures per capita” (Leslie Snyder).
They also place these commercials and advertisement in what they believe is a normal setting for the population. This can at times be harmful to the population as some companies may accidently use racial settings and racist undertones in
The former dictatorship had been cast aside, and was replaced with a democracy lead by a prime minister, and presidents governing smaller states. “Democracy had finally arrived in the Middle East, but it has quite literally had a torturous journey. Many of the leaders of these new democracies were subjected to sadistic brutality simply because of their religious beliefs.” (Danahar, pg. 21). So, not everyone was thrilled with this new government, especially those who had power before the Arab Spring.
The drink’s name is essential for customers to go outside and buy it, yet, in the ad the company hardly mentions the name of the drink. If the advertisement included the drink’s name throughout the commercial and mentioned it multiple times it would bring more awareness to the drink. Awareness directly correlates with people not forgetting the name of the drink which in return will increase sales of that drink. To make the source more effective would be to include some humor or satire. Humor is a great way to include the audience into the ad but provides great entertainment.
• Second point As the economic blockade was imposed, it caused short-term worries and tensions to arise in the economy. It has resulted into the expats sending their savings abroad. transfer of large amounts of money that wealthy individulas into their overseas banks. losing confidence in the currency which resulted into exchanging the Qatari riyal into other currencies such as Dollar and Euro ,and lastly blockading countries selling their Qatari riyal
The title on the middle of the ad says it all, in terms of being persuasive. Some people may interpret the message differently than others. At the end of the day, the message is very clear and understandable. The author made it very easy for the audience to understand the message. It gives a strong persuasive message about the dangers of drinking and
Advertising is defined as “any form of paid communication by an identified sponsor aimed to inform and/or persuade target audiences about an organization, product, service, or idea". By strategically selecting the advertising channels, the company strives to reach the target market
Further, the larger United Arab Emirates has over 8 million people, making it favourable for business,
Advertising must be strategic as well as creative.
For understanding the market and country the best way is the PEST where, Political, Economic, Social and Technology analysis. Nanette Bulger has said "There are political, environmental and social issues that are very different from country to country, so you must understand the comprehensive intertwined dynamics of the market you 're in and how the dynamics of one market may affect that market as well as another," Reference. When moving country to country a company may reveal what kind of barriers are there on foreign market, but its company’s ability to produce various products which holds current market share and future market of the country. United Arab Emirates (UAE) has stable political environment. Government structure of UAE is immature and dynastic in nature.
This shows how Wannous is expressing the reality of the Arab world. Not paying attention to such important
However, choosing the appropriate technology is essential to the success of the advertising industry because different markets prefer different ways of conveying information. The use of applications in phones or e-commerce to order goods and services all over the world may be appropriate to a certain market, but media may be appropriate to an illiterate market (Porter, 1998). The development of smart phones is also an added advantage to the development of marketing activities in the advertising industries. For instance, in Singapore China the Taxi industry uses the application in the smart phones to access the consumers. Although the media are one of the appropriate medium to convey the adverts to the consumers,
Literature review Advertising has become a form of communication and a great source for promoting services and products for any business in the whole market because of its broader impact. The main idea of an advertisement is to get the attention of the consumers, build up the product’s strong image in their mind and provide information to help the consumer to make a purchase decision. So, the central focus in today’s diverse global marketplace is the consumer. Companies exert a lot of effort to find out the best ingredients that should be in an effective advertising and identifying its influence on the consumer’s mind, so effective advertising should be considered as one of the most important tools that strongly affect and can change the consumer’s buying behavior. The research attempts to investigate the impact of effective advertising on the consumer’s buying behavior.