Introduction
In the era of online marketing, advertising is one of the key elements in the marketing mix, containing a variety of methods which a company could use to reach out and communicate with existing and potential customers. Among various different methods used for measuring the effects of advertising on potential customers, Attention-Interest-Desire-Action (AIDA) is one of the oldest and best known model that has been widely adopted in the marketing literature as a tool to illustrate a series of consecutive reactions which customers have while they are exposed to advertising messages. This paper attempts to firstly discuss the aim of the AIDA model; secondly, to identify key advantages and disadvantages of the model; and finally, to
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The AIDA model is a basic movement of the marketing and advertisement resulted from the perception of customers. The model simply describes what happens when a consumer engages with an advertisement (Fill, 2002). The AIDA model was first developed by E.St. Elmo Lewis in 1898. AIDA is an acronym which stands for Attention, Interest, Desire, and Action respectively. The four distinct components of the AIDA model are summarized as follows (Fill, 2002; Sinh, 2013; Warc, …show more content…
Furthermore, based on some previous major studies regarding the AIDA theory and practice, the summary of key definitions, advantages and disadvantages of the AIDA model is shown in the appendix (Barry, 2002; Warc, 2010; Cronin, 2012; Lagrosen, 2005; Sinh, 2013).
In addition, the use of AIDA model for measuring the effect of advertising on potential consumers helps businesses in setting the goals, structure the objectives and analyze the impact of the delivered messages. To construct an effective infomercial, marketers and advertisers are suggested to properly implement the AIDA model in a four-stage process as follows (Barry, 2002; Briefing, 2010; Cronin, 2012; Fill, 2002; Lagrosen, 2005; Sinh, 2013):
In the first step of A: Attention, grabbing the potential of the customer's attention. Whether the advertising involves commercials, posters or billboards, the advertisement should be attention-grabbing. Also, catchy audiovisuals and pictures are often used.
In the next step of I: Interest, arousing the potential customer's interest by using visuals that relate to him/her. This step requires obtaining information about potential customers. Businesses can conduct studies, take surveys or simply ask questions to gain information about the interest of potential customers, and then implement these cues in advertising
In his 1982 article, “Advertising’s Fifteen Basic Appeals,” Jib Fowles informs readers of various psychological human needs, defined as appeals. These appeals are used in advertising, to persuade consumers to purchase a product. Due to the prevalence of advertisements in today’s society, consumers have learned to block out advertisements. By using any of the fifteen appeals such as the need for sex, or the need for affiliation, companies can get into consumers’ minds, with hopes of selling their products. In other words, by appealing to consumers desires, the chance of marketing success
Attitudes are evaluations of people, objects, and ideas. (Akert, 2013) Cognitively based attitudes are based on thoughts and beliefs one has about an object, and this attitude provides pros and cons of an object, so we can decide if we want to be associated with it or not. Affectively based attitudes are based more on people’s feelings and values than on their beliefs about the nature of an attitude object. (Akert, 2013) The elaboration likelihood model is the umbrella for this topic, because it explains the two ways in which persuasion can change someone attitude. The two ways are persuasion through the central route and the persuasion through the peripheral route. The elaboration likelihood model refers to processing the message which is related to the cognitively based attitudes. Persuasive communication is most successful in changing attitudes when going through the central route because the audience is motivated, whereas with the peripheral route the audience is not motivated. Now I am going to discuss the routes of persuasion through advertisements in detail.
Advertising is the marketing of an idea in ways that encourages and persuades audiences to take some sort of action. In most cases, the action would be to buy a product or service while other are simply to raise awareness. Whatever the case may be, money is poured into advertising every day. Marketing agencies try various ways to convince people to buy their products using different persuasion techniques. After first examining an advertisement, one could analyze how each detail in the ad was specifically designed to affect its audience in a way that convinces them that they need what is being advertised. One would also be able to notice the values and important aspects of a culture through its advertisements. For
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The second step is to identify your customers. This is the area where information is gathered in their buying patterns, their customers, likes, and dislikes. It is essential to understand your customers. The company should comprehend the customer at each touch point. The company might also wish to use the essentials of advertising to create intermediaries on your demand chain and better connections with your station members and to remain in contact.
This essay will critically evaluate the use of psychological techniques in an advertisement chosen by the author from a specific range of optional advertisement. The essay will evaluate the impact on the persuasiveness of the marketing communication of a specific target audience. The author of this essay will also analyse the type of appeal, the use of rhetorical tropes, signs and symbols and evaluate the likability, credibility and power of the source of the message. All analysis and evaluation will be supported by the relevant academic references and reliable resources.
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;
Every day we walk past advertisements that are thrown at you in such abundance that you often ignore them. Only a spark catches the eye of the viewer. In that spark, they may have sold you on their product or event; others may become curious; some not intrigued at all. I found myself asking
Berknan and Gilson Defined advertising appeals as an attempt at creativity that inspires consumers motives for purchase and affects consumer’s attitude towards a specific product or service. Message appeals are used in Advertising Messages to draw the consumer’s attention to his or her, own unmet needs and desires. Appeals can be broadly classified as Rational and Emotional. Rational appeals work on the consumer’s rationale i.e. the message will focus on the features of the product, its performance, the benefits from using the product, ease or technicality involved in
The advertising industry uses many techniques to grab the attention of customers in order to promote products and services. Different products or services require different methods to reach the preferred clientele. One method, SEO (Search Engine Optimization), is used by large companies to record what kind of ads interest different profiles of people. Methods vary from large corporations, down to the “mom and pop” gas stations. Products and services typically appeal to specific customers and their problems, businesses know this and offer solutions to those needs. However, some companies create needs in their consumers, usually through products that cause dependency or by convincing impulse buyers that they can’t live without the product. According to Statista, an online statistics journal with more than 18,000 sources, America spends more money on advertising than any other country in the world. The advertisement rate grows every year, as we discover new social media outlets to distribute information. As companies grow and develop, they target specific audiences by age, gender, location and more, based on data gathered from social media, television ratings and other forms of responses like surveys and reviews.
There are certain factors that influence how buyers react to various advertisements of different companies. We may call this consumer behavior. For a company to thrive, it is important to study and know the factors and variables that influence the behavior of the buying public. How important is an advertisement? Why would a consumer choose a product or a brand over another? What could be the contents of an advertisement that will motivate the consumers?
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.
Businesses are always figuring out new trends that can help them reach the people who are most likely to buy their products and services using the most cost-effective method possible. Advertising is certainly one of the major things that businesses use to influence consumers’ behavior since it is something they can control. Even though some influences are temporary, others are enduring. However, whichever the case different influences affect the way consumers behave whether they influence them to make a single purchase, buy more products or purchase nothing.
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The AIDA model which was developed by Elias St Elmo Lewis, demonstrates a ‘purchasing funnel’ for consumerism. It describes the cognitive stages which may happen when a consumer engages with a piece of advertisement. AIDA is an acronym for: Awareness, Interest, Desire and Action. Each part of the funnel gets increasingly smaller, as the stages get harder as they go through the funnel. The prospect of the AIDA Model is based on the stages in which a salesman would take through a sale, which eventually became the ‘bread and butter’ of advertising. This is in turn what Chris and Amy Hackley described as “the promotional model which maps easily onto the classical information processing model of communication because of its linearity and its cognitive focus”