Look from left to right, I guarantee at least two things containing advertisements were spotted. In today’s world, advertisements are projected everywhere. Advertisements are used to sell or promote goods or services. These promotional pieces can be found in magazines, on billboards, and sometimes even in bathroom stalls. In the “March 2018 Double Issue of Good Housekeeping CMG 08354”, advertisements line about one quarter of the total pages. Many of these advertisements found throughout this magazine are focused on cleaning, children, age defying beauty products, and medicines. These advertisements help prove the idea that the target audience of this magazine are females of all cultures with ages ranging from forty-five to seventy years old. The financial state of the target audience is advertised as people in the upper middle class. The advertisement I chose to analyze is promoting Clorox cleaning products. This advertisement, produced by Clorox, shows a child around two years old laying on a floor. Under the child, various Clorox brand products are displayed. …show more content…
A company does not was to create an advertisement that is not effective, because in doing so, a lot of profit is lost. Therefore, taking in to account who the target audience for the medium the advertisement is going to be displayed on is very important. Planting appeals that will greater impact a target audience is quite important. Clorox did an excellent job in appealing to this audience, because the need to nurture and the need for safety fit into the lifestyles of forty-five to seventy-year-old women. The informal balance drew attention to the cleaning products and away from the baby to help bring another factor into play as well. All in all, this advertisement effectively appealed to the target audience of culturally diverse women from the ages of forty-five to seventy years of age that reside in the upper middle class of the economic
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.
The magazine Money, a magazine that covers personal finance topics, is full of advertisement about credit cards, money loans, taxes, and financial options that attract young men and women. In Jib Fowles (1997) essay, “Advertising’s Fifteen Basic Appeals,” his main point is to inform his reader about the appeals use in advertisement. Fowles (1997) stated, “that the average American is exposed to some 500 ads daily from television, newspapers, magazines, radio, billboards, direct mail, and so on” (p. 60). For example, the Money magazine is full with advertisements about credit cards and car loans. Although finding a good loan can sometimes be difficult, the Capitol One advertisers make sure to give the young men and women a good deal with the
In the text Advertisements R Us by Melissa Rubin, the author educates and goes into depth on how advertisements are designed to persuade the audience to do something. It seems that advertisers incorporate certain texts or images in their ads to target a specific group of people that they are trying to sell something to. Theoretically, people are more prone to buy or do something, if they see an ad that sparks their interest. This is where companies tailor their ads to be more interesting and expressive towards the audience they are trying to advertise to by incorporating details that would help target. It is possible to analyze an advertisement to determine who they are targeting and what message they are trying to give off based off the context
In Advertisements R Us by Melissa Rubin, she analyzes how advertisements appeal to its audience and how it reflects our society. Rubin describes a specific Coca-Cola ad from the 1950’s that contains a “Sprite Boy”, a large -Cola Coca vending machine, a variety of men, ranging from the working class to members of the army, and the occasional female. She states that this advertisement was very stereotypical of society during that decade and targeted the same demographic: white, working-class males- the same demographic that the Coca-Cola factories employed.
Consequently, she would likely challenge Cox’s description of the role that women played as the subject of advertisements in the 1920s as nothing more than objects whose sole purpose is to be beautiful. She would be more prone to state that instead of this harsh and objectifying image set forth in Cox’s narrative, women as subjects in advertisements during this time period were “the visual representation of a modern cultural consciousness that defined the 1920s” (Rabinovitch-Fox, 374). This is a very drastic contrast to what has been the narrative thus far regarding women’s status in society through the lens of the advertising companies. These companies have either been demeaning them as nothing more than housewives by pandering to that notion in their radio programming or outright objectifying women completely when they make them the subject of an
Advertisements: Exposed When viewing advertisements, commercials, and marketing techniques in the sense of a rhetorical perspective, rhetorical strategies such as logos, pathos, and ethos heavily influence the way society decides what products they want to purchase. By using these strategies, the advertisement portrayal based on statistics, factual evidence, and emotional involvement give a sense of need and want for that product. Advertisements also make use of social norms to display various expectations among gender roles along with providing differentiation among tasks that are deemed with femininity or masculinity. Therefore, it is of the advertisers and marketing team of that product that initially have the ideas that influence
Therefore, create effective ads that have the potential to entice your targeted audience using bright colored images relevant to your product or service and it should be well optimized to display properly for the prospects to compel them to make an action. Add enticing features in your ads such as special offers or call-to-action phrases like sign-up, free registration or download option etc. Every aspect of your ad should give clear information and make the prospects click on your ads rather than making them to guess about what your company or service offers them. More Than One Ad in a
Most advertisements contain at least one element of rhetoric; however, some commercials may use more than one element to ensure they can feel confident their ad will produce the response they are anticipating. In this essay, I will analyze some commercials and define what elements of rhetoric they are using as well as explain why the producers of those commercials chose that specific one. Producers take advantage of rhetorical elements to convince people to buy their products, whether it is pathos, a tug on the heart strings, or logos and facts, producers thoroughly take advantage of this to sell their products. 1. OxiClean Versatile Stain Remover This commercial promoting an OxiClean stain remover has generated a large amount of sales for this company due to the rhetorical devices used.
In doing so, he evaluates the importance of studying children’s behavior to learn more about their tastes. Schlosser claims that many advertisers, “ conduct surveys of children in shopping malls ... analyze children’s artwork, send cultural anthropologists into homes, stores, fast food restaurants…” (Schlosser 44) By studying what children do and do not like, ads are specific to the age group and likely to draw more attention because they are clear in their
Using logos, pathos and ethos influence the people and always has a purpose of why they create the advertisement and for who. Majority of all the advertisement can be for child, teenagers, and adult. The point is cooperation’s or business has a message of representation from their companies that it makes them unique but people has to have more power of controlling how they react to advertisement and pay attention to little details. Advertisement has purpose, audience and language and in common it has persuaded, inform and
If one is able to cope with the dissonance, at the same time can make a choice faster. 2.2. Visual presentation of an Advertisement with Regard to Its Persuasive Potential Advertisement, as previously investigated, has to draw one’s attention and promote particular product. Amid this feature, the essence of advertising is visual communication. As the role of language is crucial in further analysis, the visual presentation is the first element that make the receiver be interested with the advertisement.
Clorox has an excellent opportunity right now to bring their products to a whole other generation. Right now the average consumer for Clorox is about 35 and older because it is generally something people who clean their houses use. However with the new “Green Works” products being produced by Clorox they have the chance to get consumers younger than 35 introduced to their brand. This creates a problem for Clorox, not because getting the younger crowd into the product, but because they have not launched a new product in so many years that they need to catch up with current marketing techniques.
Yet, in the realm of advertisement, there seems to be a fundamental difference in the way men and women are portrayed. The women are portrayed as a sexual object, fragile, and exotic whereas men are portrayed as dominant, powerful, physique, tough, independent, and aggressive. The advertisement today 's plays very important to influence the customer decision, and through various research evidence that gender, sexuality, and advertising are
Stereotypical Ads: Clorox Bleach Television ads have been around in the U.S since 1941 and have aired all around the world ever since. Most of these ads seem harmless and try to convince the viewer to buy the company 's products, but some companies take their ads a little too far. In 2007, Clorox Bleach aired a commercial called, “The Laundry Timeline.” This commercial was extremely stereotypical towards women, mentioning how women are the ones who do the laundry in the household and made the assumption that the woman 's’ parents and grandparents did the laundry in the family. In “The Laundry Timeline”, women are portrayed as house cleaners and useless in the working world, through the use of symbolic items, using the word “your” as an idea that the watcher is in the ad, and the idea of pathos to catch to the viewers attention, in order to get people to agree with their statement and to buy their product.
Unilever’s personal care brand Dove was chosen since it was the first to show women in advertisements as they were. Their posters and TV commercials challenge stereotypes and draw attention to the distorted idea of how a woman has to look like. A small selection of former and recent advertisements were chosen to show the development in the brand’s marketing strategies. Since the focus of this paper will be on the representation of women, only advertisements including women are to be analyzed but still they are assumed to be characteristic of the brand’s advertising during that