Advertising During The Middle Ages

Throughout history, advertising has played a significant role in consumerism, politics, and much more. By the 1920’s it had developed into a major aspect of daily life for Americans, determining everything from their hygiene habits to their meals. Despite this having been almost one-hundred years ago, there are many similarities, but also many differences in the advertising industry today.

During the 1920’s, advertisement has changed in many aspects of American culture. Although the concept of advertising has existed in the United States since the establishment of the thirteen colonies, the American advertisement became what it is today as in a result of the 1920’s. During that time, most of propaganda techniques, that were used in modern times, were officially established and perfected. However, advertisers find great accomplishments with the different techniques such as psychology of advertisement, brand consciousness, therapeutic ethic, and even the use of women image use on consumers that will master mind the advertisement culture.

Resulting in many companies perceiving advertising as a risky business. Although, “Between 1918 and 1923, a greater percentage of articles in the advertising trade journal Printers’ Ink, were devoted to ways of convincing “ancient” corporations that advertising was a given of modern industrialism than were devoted to advertising and merchandising techniques.” (Ewen 3). Thus, introducing the need for advertising to the people as well as large corporations. Ultimately, this advertised advertising, creating a new way for old corporations to see how advertising benefited both the companies themselves and market development.

Advertising has become so prevalent in our lives today due to mass media. It is every form from print to online through social media and websites, advertising has never had this much importance. From driving in your car to scrolling through your daily feed every person is exposed to advertising in a variety of forms.

Adverts have been around for hundreds of years, and have since developed hugely as technology has enabled us to advance even more. Adverts have developed from illustration with text in the early 1700’s to large high definition photograph/illustration on billboard or TV advertisements with high definition. (Adage, website, 1999) Advertising in the 21st century doesn’t just stop at billboards and TV advertisements. We have now gone onto using every space available to us to advertise, we are surrounded by adverts, or even advertisements surrounds us. Its endless, everywhere we go, we see adverts posted on a wall or on websites that we visit.

Main Ideas and Key Connections to the Essential Question: -This website is a comprehensive timeline of advertising in America from 1850-1920. -It has specific examples of advertisements and stats on products such as # of cars sold.

Advertising is the action of let people know about a specific product or idea. Advertising is nothing fresh, according to “The History of Adverting: How Consumers Won the

Advertisements are public marketing announcements in the form of television commercials, radio broadcasts, or printed posters with the objective of selling a product or service. (“Advertising,” n.d., para. 2) Advertisements can change the way you feel about anything including yourself. As a child when you were watching TV and a commercial for the “coolest” new toy came on, you immediately wanted to go to the store and buy that new toy essentially because the commercial had fun music, flashy colours and it showed other kids playing with it and having fun and enjoying it.

When the first printing presses came to America during the seventh century Advertising was done through pamphlets and signboards. The pamphlets at this time explained goods and services that were available. Signboards normally contained symbols and address but not numbers (Applegate. 2012. P.4). It was in the eighteenth century is when

Persuasive techniques in advertisements From ancient time, advertising is using for companies to publicize, it is a remarkable market communication form used to persuade people and take or continue some actions. No matter which markets you focus on and whose are your target people, you do need advertising. Advertisement are often sought to generate increased consumption of their products. In order to increasing consumption by selling their products, companies pay a bunches of works on creating a successful advertisement, they use ethos, which is an appeal to credibility, logos, which is using logical reasons, pathos, which is an appeal to emotions, these three strategies called persuasive techniques. Companies use these three

Due to advances in technology, significant changes in advertising appeared in the 1920’s. In the latter half of the 1900’s ads were illustrated in color for the first time and the layout of most magazines changed. Advertisements, in the 1910 Ladies’ Home Journal, were mostly located in the back of the magazine. Though due to the popularization of name brands, ads moved to the front as competition between products produced more revenue.

There are, as of Antiquity, advertisements in the form of frescoes extolling the virtues of a politician or gladiatorial combats announcements. Poster discovered in Thebes and dating from 1000 BC is commonly regarded as one of the first mass-produced advertisements; it offered a gold piece that would capture a runaway

Television Ads Despite the rise in internet advertising, television advertising still remains dominant in most households, as part of their leisure activities. Television advertisements allow the majority of the firms to educate a wide audience about their products or services through actions, visual images and sounds. Even though television advertisement can

Privacy Issues Under Targeted Advertising Advertising has always been an important part of our society. The history of advertising can be traced to pre-modern history when it served an important purpose by allowing sellers to effectively compete with other merchants for the attention of clients in Ancient Egypt. From 1704 when the first newspaper advertisement was announced, it gradually grows into a major force in American society based primarily on newspapers and magazines (Ad Age Advertising Century, 1999). It not only helps to raise the target demographics’ awareness of issues, but also educate consumers with the benefits of the product. However, advertising cannot target a particular person before the emerging of World Wide Web.

Advertising is one of the most common types of social communication and an integral element of modern mass culture. It was the product of the development of market-oriented economic culture production methods, gradually, as the development of information technology in the process of historical evolution, becoming one of the most important social institutions of modern society.