Category: Advertisement

In the current competitive world, advertising has become an essential strategy for many businesses in winning over market share and gaining a competitive advantage over peers. This has resulted in rapid growth in online advertising, consequently leading to the generation of large data volumes on targeted customers. Data mining applications such as customer behavior analysis,…

There are frequent debates over whether advertising to children should be banned. The main question asked is “Is marketing to children a harmful or useful tool for teaching them?”. In some cases advertising is already restricted on certain products such as tobacco and betting, mainly to protect the health of consumers or potential consumers but…

Seducing women in the 90s is a current struggle for all men. “How to attract women without even trying!” is an article written by an unknown author and later published in FHM magazine, in November 1994 with the aim to persuade all male readers to buy this book. There are many ways to seduce a…

Have you ever had a theme song stuck in your head from a commercial or advertisement of some sort? This is how companies and food industries convince you to buy their products. Commercialization persuades the audience of targeted civilians watching it to purchase the food/product being advertised. We can agree that American diets need to…

Peoples and places around the globe are continuously re-invented, re-produced and re-created as tourism marketers create powerful representations of them (Salazar:2009). As a result, these different ways how people and places are being represented has a huge impact or rather plays a big role on how the tourists imagine and form views and expectations about…

For decades, digital photography has been a key feature in the campaigns of brands, big or small. Photographs are used to highlight the product or service that a brand is offering, and by applying various techniques, which I shall later highlight, to idealise the product in question. Brands use photography to give consumers an idea…

1. Intended message: As a worthy competitor of the Coca-cola company, the advertisement aims to announce that the Pepsi beverage has been consumed over many generations, is continued to be drunk by everyone nowadays and will remain popular in the years to come, so everyone should join the bandwagon and drink Pepsi. 2. Target audience:…

Introduction Emotion, sex, and humor can generally be attributed as three tried and tested (and arguably done to death as well) formulas of advertising communications. A quick search on any advertising portal would show almost all communications have tried to make their way to effectiveness with a mix of emotion, sex, and humor. As this…

All 4 persons in the ad are remarkably well-known athletes who play tennis and football. The ad is the Double Stuf Racing League in which the athletes are in a competition to see who’s fastest to twist, lick and dunk their oreo cookies. Most athletes are familiar with the ‘leave it all on the field’…

This essay will explore how specific art pieces from various artists within the Pop Art movement have contributed to the birth of branding and advertising and what influence it still has on modern design. It will identify how brands use the Pop Art style within their current marketing tactics to sell products, ideas, or services.…