Advertisements: Tweens And Teenagers

In an essay written by Jim Fowles, “Advertising’s Fifteen Basic Appeals” he says advertising manipulates individuals to buy things they do not need. Advertisements use many emotional appeals such is the need for sex, escape, aesthetic sensation, satisfy curiosity and guidance. Today, Calvin Klein advertisements captures majority of individual’s attention. It is a well-known brand and expensive. It is known for their jeans and underwear. Calvin Klein apparel, underwear, shoes, and accessories can be found and brought online stores, malls, and outlet malls. Many famous celebrities and musician artists posed for Calvin Klein’s advertisement campaigns, wearing Calvin Klein jeans, shirts, sweaters, jackets, bras, purses, and underwear. Calvin Klein

Marketing to children is not a new phenomenon; however, there have been many ethical debates on its rightness; is advertising to children a gentle persuasion of the innocent or a sinister threat to our society? There’s too much as stake if we remain silent and simply assume that marketing companies have our children’s best interests at heart; the truth is they don’t. This paper will explore to implications of marketing to children and the overall effects it has on our society. I will argue that advertising to children is a social problem. In the first part of my paper I will discuss why advertising to children is ethically wrong, I will then discuss what has changed; this will be followed by a discussion as to why it is a social problem and finally, I will conclude my paper by discussing what should be done to change it. Please note this paper is written in the first person as I have children and I have a vested interest in this topic.

In addition, advertising feeds from mob mentality, convincing people a product will change their lives by deeming it fashionable or sophisticated. It bypasses logical thinking to take control of how people view themselves and their “need for esteem. People want and need to be respected and we need to feel good about ourselves. And this is where much advertising lives, often because we are selling products that people really do not need. L’Oreal’s ‘Because you’re worth it’ is the perfect example” (Madigan 83). For this reason, expectations of a person are manipulated to fit the wants of the industry to sell products. These people are affected since they feel as if they have no choice in what to wear, how their body should appear to others, and which brands they buy. It all comes down to the need to be apart of something bigger, instead of sticking out from the crowd.

Advertising appeals to emotions, rather than reason. Most ads try to attract your interest or stimulate your desire by either scaring you into doing something or appeal to your emotions by tying a product to your “happiness or well-being”. Successful ads also use compelling visuals to entice the audience into action. Many also use celebrities because research shows we are more likely to associate truthfulness with a known celebrity figure.

In this article Diaz (2011), discusses the methods rooted in a corpus of English that advertisers use in order to prey on teenagers into buying their products. The author attempts to reveal the linguistic control that advertisers caster upon the teenagers by igniting the fire of desire in them through their well-studied strategies.In this article Diaz (2011), discusses the methods rooted in a corpus of English that advertisers use in order to prey on teenagers into buying their products. The author attempts to reveal the linguistic control that advertisers caster upon the teenagers by igniting the fire of desire in them through their well-studied strategies. Diaz also exposes manipulative approaches used by prestigious brands. Diaz also exposes

Isis used the internet to target three teenage girls from Britain, who may have traveled to Syria to join. Isis is using children and young adults in untruthful advertisement in order to draw other children into their group especially young girls. In one posted video, it shows young boys dressed in military attire and Isis bandanas learning hand-to-hand combat. These young boys are known as the “Cubs of the Caliphate” (http://wgno.com).

Have you ever felt like marketers or advertisers are tricking you into buying their products? Marketers are very good at having their mindset towards targeting the youth into buying their products. Most people don’t see it but they are doing everyday you are with a device with ads.

The definition of advertising is outdated. It was previously, to endorse a product and praise goodness to induce the public to buy. They are now brainwashing consumers to buy their products using images to sell the product. The advertiser’s aim is to make the product look as good as it can through an attractive image. There are statistics, which I obtained from a Dolly Magazine, 16th May 2000, which proves that one out of four people in Australia buy a product because of the image shown in the advertisment. The images are eye catching and mention something important about the product. Ultimately it is true that, “Advertisers sell images, not products.”

What kind of ads do you see on TV nowadays? Ads for fast-food, ads for flashy clothes and material objects that are not nessecary for everyday life. But someone who doesn't know any better, say a child, might feel as if he or she needs these objects to live a good life. In these advertisements, they show people wearing these flashy clothes or eating this fast-food junk, and they show them as very happy and succsessful. What child would not want that? It sends a message to them that is wrong, and we need to acknowledge that these ads are infact affecting our children and how they view the world around them.

Taking an image for what it is versus editing it and removing all insecurities is what sets females (and males) apart from the confidence we all should have. Most girls in their teenage years struggle with the day-to-day battle of trying to fit in or look their best.

Recently in health class we watched the movie Super-Size Me. This movie was about a guy named Morgan Sparks that went on a thirty day trial where he ate only McDonalds for all three meals every day. With this experiment he gained about twenty five pounds, that is almost one pound per day. Besides his major weight gain he went from eleven percent to eighteen percent of body fat. He also had irreversible changes to his body. In the next couple paragraphs I will be telling you about advertising unhealthy foods and how it effects most people but targets younger kids.

Ads are a very big part of everyday life. If we watch TV we see ads, if we walk down the street we see some form of an ad. One ad in particular caught my interest. It is the Nintendo Switch Super bowl LI-Extended Cut. In the book The Pop Culture Zone, it breaks down how advertisers make ads to apply to basic human desires. I think that is a very effective and thought out ad that captures the attention of a large audience targeting on multiple desires we have as human beings.

     We live in a fast paced society that is ruled by mass media. Every day we are bombarded by images of, perfect bodies, beautiful hair, flawless skin, and ageless faces that flash at us like a slide show. These ideas and images are embedded in our minds throughout our lives. Advertisements select audience openly and subliminally, and target them with their product. They allude to the fact that in order to be like the people in this advertisement you must use their product. This is not a new approach, nor is it unique to this generation, but never has it been as widely used as it is today. There is an old saying 'a picture is worth a thousand words,' and what better way to tell someone about a product

Advertising today focuses on specific targeted demographic groups. There is a direct focus on marketing products to young consumers. This age group sees the commercials, but does not really understand the directed message. This can have an adverse effect on the way children interpret and understand the message being presented to them. 'The average American child sees more than 40,000 commercials a year, and advertisers spend more than $12 billion annually marketing to them?double the amount of 10 years ago.' (APA-1) Children watching television are exposed to every channel running commercials that are sending out a mature message to an immature audience. There needs to be something done to

Advertising means to call the public's attention to one's product, service, need, etc. But what we see isn't what we get or how we will feel. The purpose to advertise is to sell, the more you advertise the more you will sell. Many companies have ways into luring us into buying a product that is unnecessary. Jib Fowles describes the fifteen appeals in which advertisements use, which are Need for sex, Need for affiliation, Need for guidance, Need to aggress, Need to achieve, Need to dominate, Need for prominence, Need for attention, Need for autonomy, Need to escape, Need to feel safe, Need for aesthetic sensation, Need to satisfy