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Media impacts our lives everyday. The average 14-to-28 year-old will be exposed to about 3,000 ads every day. Ben Franklin once said that nothing is certain is this life except death and taxes. I believe it is now safe to assume we can add advertisements to that list now. We are literally bombarded with them. After seeing all the advertisements I am led to believe that they are the most carefully constructed of all human communication, being it the most expensive too. In 2004, according to www.answers.com, advertisement was in excess of $450 billion in the United States alone. It is not our fault though that these advertisements display messages that we cannot perceive. When we see an ad, our conscious mind will filter out the things it cannot deal with and make an acceptable idea or image that is made conscious. This is

“There are over 250 billion advertisements released to the public every year with the average person seeing over 3000 ads every single day” (Kilbourne). This is an astronomical amount of information for anyone to process in a week let alone in one day. This is a prime example of Capitalism at it’s finest. Controlling the consumer in every aspect of their lives. Jean Kilbourne also talks about how “Only 8 percent of an advertisement is actually processed by the conscious mind, with the other 92 percent being soaked up by the subconscious” (Kilbourne). Thinking about those numbers really brings into perspective how much we are truly influenced by media

An average american watches about 5 hours of television a day, so that's about over 30 commercials of advertisements a day. The reason for this analysis is the fact that, advertisements are everywhere. Each advertisement make us feel a certain way. Whether that feeling is good, bad, emotional, funny and etc. it makes us have some sort of feeling.

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.

Advertising is an over 100 billion dollar a year industry and affects all of us throughout our lives. We are each exposed to over 2,000 ads a day, constituting perhaps the most powerful educational force in society. The average American will spend one and one-half years of his or her life watching television commercials. The ads sell a great deal more than products. They sell images, makeup, skin and hair care, diet pills, and cosmetic surgery as a means of normalcy.

Advertising was first developed in 1841. It has become the way we communicate to persuade an audience. It has become a huge part of our lives. It plays a large role in our social impact of life. It has shaped our values to the point that it is taking over the decisions we make. Everything we are taught and believe are right and wrong are changed by the way it makes us think and behave. Our culture is being shaped by these advertisements and commercials and sadly they are affecting us in a very negative way.

We all have to deal with ads. They usually come on when it’s the most interesting, nail-biting part of the show, right? Then we have to sit through roughly three minutes of things we couldn't care less about. But in reality, advertisements have a huge impact of our lives. How else would you even know about certain products? Sure you could just go the the store and waste countless hours trying to see if they even have what you’re looking for, or if you saw it during a commercial or in newspaper, you’d know exactly what stores carried it and which ones didn’t. Typically advertisements inform us about the products that companies make. However, even though they are extremely useful,

The reality of advertising is right under our noses and in front of our eyes. Wherever we are or whatever we are doing, the fact is we are likely to be surrounded and influenced by advertisements.

Advertisements are a huge part of our everyday lives. We see different types of ads everywhere we look; while watching television, listening to the radio, riding on the bus and even walking around your school campus. It seems like the whole world is being flooded by advertisements.

Ads are everywhere. Not only do we see them on television, on the internet, or when we read a magazine or newspaper, they are literally everywhere we look. They’re are on billboards, posters, signs, and at bus stops. It is estimated that a person living in the city will see up to 5,000 ads each and every day. Most people believe that ads don’t affect them. They believe that they can just ‘tune out’. But they can’t. We can’t.

Every year billions of dollars are made because of the advertisments you encounter on your day to day lives. Advertisements have helped America's economy for decades. They all may have their pros and cons, but not all ads have negative effects on children.

Advertisements work in such a way that we grow to envy those we are not; they exploit our perceived flaws by displaying a person who is the living and breathing version of who we wish to be. John Berger in his book, Ways of Seeing, explains that publicity works by convincing his reader that advertisements use envy to entice the public to buy products: “Publicity persuades us...by showing us people who have apparently been transformed and are, as a result, enviable” (131). Though Berger published his book in 1972, his arguments about envy and publicity still hold truth, perhaps now more than ever. Furthermore, the more present advertisements are in our everyday life, the more envious our society becomes. With the power of envy, those who fall under its spell become choiceless, and therefore powerless. Berger also argues in his book that there is a correlation between the number of advertisements we see and the less freedom Americans possess. However, Berger believes that capitalism hides this powerlessness with the illusion of choice: “Publicity helps to mask and compensate for all that is undemocratic within society” (149). This idea Berger has relates not only to the advertisement of products, but also to present-day politics. Withheld information creates power using envy which is used in both advertisements and the US government. As more envy is created with modern day technology, and we become more immersed into social media, the further we stray from democracy.

The effectiveness of advertisements in informing individuals about objects and organisations has been of interest to researchers for several years (Stern, & Resnik, 1991).  Television advertisements have been deemed to be one of the most effective ways of informing individuals about health issues (Dalton, Bolitho, Carr, Commons, & MacLachlan, 2006).  Further, in the 1990s when the HIV/AIDS epidemic occurred, although they contained controversial material, television advertisements were suggested to be the most effective way of educating the community about preventing the viral spread (Nowak, Jorgensen, Salmon, & Jason, 1993).  Previously, marketing companies had to rely on traditional research methods such as; self-reporting, focus groups, and questionnaires, to gain information about consumer behaviour (Venkatraman, et al., 2014).  These measures, however, have been proven to be limited, as they rely on the participant’s ability to accurately evaluate and interpret their emotions (Nisbett & Wilson, 1977; Vecchiato et al., 2013).  It has also been suggested that these traditional methods may lead to motivational biases, especially when completing a self-report (Ohme, Reykowska, Wiener, & Choromanska, 2010). It is predicted that Australia will spend $15.4 billion dollars on advertising in 2017 (Dentsu Aegis Network, 2017), therefore it is important for researchers to identify what factors make advertisements effective.

Advertisements have become an integral part of our daily lives. The endless advertisements shape the society in which we are living. But people are being exposed to hundreds of advertisements

We live each day not knowing the effects of everything our eyes see. We live in a world where we contribute to the prominence of advertising; however, the effects upon us are unknown. Advertising can be seen in the majority of the world, it has gotten to the point in which people become almost completely oblivious to them. People see advertisement in stores, in billboards, television, and even their homes. It has come to the point where people believe they are not affected by these ads but that is not the case. Advertising has various effects on the world such as educating society, persuading the viewer through the use of symbols, colors and images, helping people communicate and informing the people.