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Cheese In The Super Bowl

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The Super Bowl is a sporting event that is famous for producing funny and well-known advertisements. During the 2016 Super Bowl, Taco Bell released a successful ad for a new food item. This product is known as the “Quesolupa” with its key feature being a unique cheese filled shell. In the ad itself, it is first expressed that cheese put inside a taco shell is a pretty big deal, in fact it is “bigger” than just about everything. To express this, a series of clips follow the initial claim showing just how big of a deal it really is. Some examples claim that this product from Taco Bell is going to be a bigger deal than virtual reality, drones, or just the Internet as a whole. Due to the large number of people of different demographics that watch …show more content…

Because of this, the route of persuasion used is peripheral. This is apparent in the fact that very little is said about the actual product itself, other than the fact that there is “cheese in the shell”. Instead of spending time trying to captivate an audience with specifics about the item and the restaurant, they make use of classical conditioning and are able to use the commercial to create positive associations with the product with elements such as high quality production, humor, and the use of easily recognizable people and …show more content…

This implied view is another reasons this commercial works so well. The idea behind the advertising used here is once again not to tell the viewer what to do, but instead, to create positive associations with the company and the product being sold.
Taco Bell likely had a great deal of success with this campaign. By having a funny commercial that the target demographic could relate to, people will be influenced by what they saw even if they don’t know it, which in the end, is a sign of persuasion being used

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