Advertising is a complicated form of marketing, it’s almost like an art form. One must be acutely aware of their audience and what captures their attention, otherwise the advertisement will fall flat. There is a myriad of different ways to lure consumers into buying a product; for example, the Center for Disease Control’s (CDC) managed through a series of advertisements to convince individuals of the importance in getting a vaccination for the influenza virus. It was applied using multiple techniques, namely the methods of universal appeal and association. These techniques helped the CDC to effectively promotes the flu vaccine and get their message across to a wide range of people. In one of the advertisements the CDC uses universal appeal …show more content…
This is done by using the association technique, which involves spreading a message that connects something the target audience feels strongly towards, to the desired idea of the advertisement. Music is something that most individuals enjoy and relate to, and those positive feelings might then be associated with getting a flu shot. After hooking the viewer in with the association technique, the ad then spreads its message by saying, “Even healthy people can get the flu, and it can be serious. … This season protect yourself – and those around you – by getting a flu vaccine,” (Edgenuity). This overall message is informative and successfully promotes the flu vaccine and the use of the association technique is …show more content…
Three small children are pictured laughing and sharing popcorn amongst themselves, along with the message, “Spread popcorn. Not flu,” (Edgenuity). Using the association technique, it shows how of the two things mentioned, popcorn and the flu, popcorn is the item that should be shared, rather than the much sicklier alternative. This is enforced with the ad’s informative message of, “Even healthy kids of any age can get sick from the flu, and they can spread it to family, friends, and others. Everyone 6 months of age and older should get a flu vaccine every year,” (Edgenuity). This successfully gets across that the flu is a serious illness that should not be spread, but that it is easily preventable with a flu vaccination. Parents may see this ad and worry about their child’s safety; not only could their child get the flu, they could spread it to other children as well. Many parents may then go get a flu shot for their children in order to prevent that from happening. This ad effectively uses the association technique and spreads the important message in an informative and catchy way. For each of the three advertisements, the Center for Disease Control (CDC) uses different methods of displaying the intended message to their audience. In targeting a specific audience, they can hone in on what the audience can relate to and agree with, and create a message and way of displaying that message accordingly.
The final and the strongest appeal in the advertisement is pathos, the appeal to emotions. Throughout the ad sick children are being shown and getting treated by a doctor or nurse. Showing the family and children laying down on beds who are being diagnosed for cancer. By showing these images the audience feels a sense of loss, fear, pain and grief, even though they do not personally know the children. Also, by not helping these children the audience might feel
When it comes to the topic of commercials, most of us readily agree that commercials are irritating. Where this agreement usually ends, however, is on the purpose of the commercial. Whereas some are convinced that commercials are meaningless, others maintain that commercials tell a story. Effective commercials are repetitive and illustrate a story. Marketers use rhetoric marketing, the art of persuasive speaking and writing, when persuading an audience to buy a product. Rhetoric marketing is especially effective through the illustration of a story. It is effective because the marketer is able to relate to the consumer with a story or message. Advertisers also use the appeals of logic, credibility, and emotions to intrigue interest in a company. Coca-Cola’s advertisement, “Falling,” depicts the product as a confidence building companion suitable for young love through a series of logical and emotional appeals that visibly promotes the brand’s credibility.
Advertisements are everywhere. From billboards, to magazines, to newspapers, flyers and TV commercials, chances are that you won’t go a day without observing some sort of ad. In most cases, companies use these ads as persuasive tools, deploying rhetorical appeals—logos, pathos, and ethos—to move their audiences to think or act in a certain way. The two magazine ads featured here, both endorsing Pedigree products, serve as excellent examples of how these modes of persuasion are strategically used.
The first advertisement in the Centers for Disease Control campaign focuses on parents with young children and why their children need to get vaccinated. This advertisement shows a father hugging his young daughter, and it states "NO FLU IN MY HOUSE.". This is an example of Universal appeal, because it displays a father
The text written on the front of the advertisement informs the observer that "shots aren't just for kids", targeting an audience of adults. This particular advertisement uses the persuasive technique called universal appeal in order to reach out to its intended audience. Universal appeal is a type of persuasive technique that appeals to a person's commonly held values surrounding ideas such as family and everyday life and involves experiences to which everyone can relate to. By using this type of persuasive technique, the advertisement appeals to the adult viewers' experiences and values regarding getting flu shots and encourages them to believe that getting a flu shot, even as an adult, can be beneficial to
One particularly effective ad in the campaign involves sharing music instead of the flu. This ad targets young adults, many of whom enjoy listening to music together. When young people see this ad, they think of how easy it is to share music. The ad uses the association strategy to make the audience think that sharing germs is just as easy to do. This ad is effective because it takes a common practice of youths and associates
The first rhetorical appeal which I am going to discuss about this ad is the use of ethos. There are many ethos in this ad and one of them is the use of doctors in the advertisements.During the commercial the audience sees the doctors conducting research, conducting tests, and checking on patients. Due to having complete many years of education to receive a M.D. as well as being able to save lives, doctors are usually referred to as extremely credible characters. and Therefore, by showing doctors the audience become more confident in the overall credibility of the ad. They also show the nurses and doctors being gentle with the children, caring for them, and hugging them, which gives the audience a sense of trustworthiness of the doctors and nurses. Another example of the ethos in this commercial is the expression of good. By donating only $19.00 you can save children's lives which makes you feel good. Due to selflessness of good will, it comes as credible thing to do.
The message the Ad is communicating is that teens are more likely to die from overdose than gun fire. To portray this a series of tools are used. Besides the obvious statistic at the end. In order to make the statistic really hit home with the viewer the creators of the ad use different types of rhetoric to draw the viewer in. They focused on establishing credibility, appealing to reason, evoking an emotional response, and delivering the ad at a time of relevance. Let's look further into these literary devices they used.
The psychological appeal for the ad is Logos, an appeal to logic or reason, providing evidence facts and or statistics although the facts can be false. In the ad you hear a voice saying “no food lowers cholesterol more” and that is the “number one seeling plant sterol plant spread in Australia.” While hearing the narrator list off facts you see an animation that shows a diagram of how the spread works showing he butter forming a net and blocking off the cholesterol while a large stamp appears in the bottom corner of the screen reading “clinically proven” while the narrator emphasises reading that line so it stands out and sticks in your memory. Now next time when you are in the supermarket purchasing a spread you are attracted to that product
Advertisements come in various shapes, sizes, and mediums, and as humans, we are constantly surrounded by them. Whether they are on TV, radio, or in a magazine, there is no way that we can escape them. They all have their target audience for whom the advertisers have specifically designed the ad. When a company produces a commercial, their main objective is to get their product to sell. This is a multibillion-dollar industry and the advertisers study all the ways that they can attract their audience’s attention. The producers of advertisements have many tactics and strategies they use when producing an ad to get consumers to buy their product. These include things such as rhetorical
Words like “help,” “feel,” and “faster,” are used in this ad to subtly make readers believe that NyQuil will cure Mom’s illness quickly when, in fact, they really only say that the products might make her symptoms briefly subside quicker than another indistinct method of treatment. This subtle method of advertisement is actually very common in all types of ads. Another technique used to attract attention of audiences is the adorable image of a mother and daughter playing dress up together. When someone sees this image, they are expected to feel strong, loving emotion for the seemingly deep mother-daughter connection in the photo. This mode of persuasion, pathos, is used to play on the emotions of viewers who see this ad. By using pathos in advertising, advertisers are also showing the main values of a culture.
Advertising is a form of communication used to encourage or persuade an audience to continue or take some new action. But when advertisers produce an ad, they have many different variables that come into play if they want to successfully persuade consumers. The first most important step they have to figure out is, what type of audience they are trying to target. They then create images and intend to appeal specifically to the values, hopes, and desires of that particular audience. This is why someone would rather pick the well-known Malboro cowboy ads over the new female cigarettes of Virginia Slims. Each of these ads targets a specific audience;
This ad by teavana, designed to sell iced tea gift sets uses many persuasive appeals to help convince potential customers to choose their product. One example of a persuasive appeal included the usage of appealing by association. In the top left corner the ad states that “Everyone's talking about Summer’s hottest tea collection.” By stating this it makes the customer want to fit into this group of people and also drink Teavana teas. Another persuasion tactic Teavana uses is transfer. By taking cinematic photos of their tea on a bright summer it make the audience want to emulate that moment. Next to the photo it also says “A taste of SUMMER.” By painting the picture of ice cold tea on a warm summer's day they hope you will want to transport yourself into that moment and as a result buy their.
The viewer sits on the couch, nestled inside a cozy, warm blanket with a large bowl of buttery and salty popcorn on his lap. His heart starts racing as the movie reaches its climax. Just as his lungs stop breathing and his eyes grow wide with fascination, the channel changes to an old advertisement that he’s seen a thousand times. Ads like that one appeal to the three main techniques that have subliminal messages to viewers. These different techniques have proven to be effective with television watchers. Advertisers use these three techniques to target a certain audience.
Advertising is a persuasive communication attempt to change or reinforce one’s prior attitude that is predictable of future behavior. We are not born with the attitudes for which we hold toward various things in our environment. Instead, we learn our feelings of favorability or unfavorability through information about the object through advertising or direct experience with the object, or some combination of the two. Furthermore, the main aim of advertising is to ‘persuade’ to consumer in order to generate new markets for production.