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Every time you flip a magazine, change channels, or go online, you are struck with images of models who are super skinny with flashy outfits and have excessive make-up on. Ads not only try to sell their products, but also promote how females should look like. These models are airbrushed and photo shopped which is false advertisement. The media progressively encourages a thinner body image as the ideal for women. We see advertisements every day. Some of these ads use manipulative strategies that influence our choices and spending habits. For example, “One in every three articles in leading teen girl magazines included a focus on appearance, and most advertisements used appeal to beauty to sell their products.”(Teen Health) To grab the viewers’ attention, especially females, they include

Have you ever been watching television and a commercial for Hydroxycut comes on featuring a male or female who went from 250 pounds to 150 pounds and looks like a fitness model just from using Hydroxycut? Although these results may seem extreme this is what many fitness advertisements promote; portraying unrealistic body images and displaying false results. Fitness advertising can be found in print and broadcast forms. While fitness advertising can be viewed as having both positives and negatives, I believe fitness advertising is negative. This paper will discuss the negatives of fitness advertising, to include creating negative body images and promoting false results. It will, also, address the counterarguments against fitness advertising being negative.

The ones selling this product obviously want to grab your attention by Halle Berry being practically the main focus. People viewing this advertisement will only be focusing on the attraction of the image, how they would love to look like her and by buying the product it might boost

This is what MagnaSoles does when it spits out, " MagnaSoles convert the wearers energy to match the Earth's natural vibration rate of 32.805 kilofrankels." This quote makes the reader feel that they are connecting with the Earth when in all reality the insoles are just making peoples feet hurt less. Also, the statement, "enabling your soles to hear your entire body as you walk." This is a definite overstatement. The mental image received when reading that the insoles heal your entire body make a consumer imagine the insoles as being magical or having some type of special healing technology. Which is not the case. However, the hyperboles used grab the readers attention and get the reader more focused in on the following

American culture has become littered with commercials the past few decades. It does not matter if you are watching television or reading a magazine, you are bound to come across some advertisement promoting a product that you supposedly need to make life easier. James Twitchell even goes on to say that “The culture we live in is carried on the back of advertising” (Twitchell). Some commercials try to woo you in with sappy songs and sad images, while others take a path that will create good feelings and laughter that will leave you thinking about their product all day. Fathead, a company that sells huge life-like posters of athletes and other popular figures, takes the latter approach to selling their product. Their new “Clay Matthews,

A New Balance sneaker company was false advertising in claiming its toning walking shoes burns more calories and improved health. On the New Balance website, the company says its true balance toning sneaker, “uses hidden balance board technology that encourages muscle activation in the glutes, quads, hamstrings and calves, which makes you burns calories.” Additionally, people say the sneakers, which cost $100, do not necessarily boost health benefits and may even lead to injury. The company tried to use fake information online about the new shoe so people can try to buy it and they will earn money. This proves that this company used artifice because they

However believe it or not that’s not always true. Most big name companies try to portray the positives of the product in the advertisement, and in marketing perspective that’s the whole major point. But the public deserves to know the negative part of the product also. For example Gatorade, a hydration drinks which is meant for activities and sports. But declared by science, any hydration drinks are not meant to be taken alone, should be taken with water mainly. Why isn’t the public notified about this information? It’s only because Corporations want investment. They are all looking for profits no matter what the advertisement says. Stated by Naomi Klein in her No Logo, “…with the Kraft purchase, a huge dollar value had been assigned to something that had previously been abstract and unquantifiable — a brand name. This was spectacular news for the ad world, which was now able to make the claim that advertising spending was more than just a sales strategy: it was an investment in cold hard equity. The more you spend, the more your company is worth”. (8) And this idea has grown so much during our generation that we don’t stop and think how much it really is taking over our lives.

How is kim Kardashian supposed to help you run or buy shoes? They just want the people to buy these shoes because kim has proved them. but to her this is another money making method, as well for the skechers. Just because kim is in good shape and other would want to look like her they would buy these shoes, who maybe kim use’s. So kim approved skechers do not help you lose weight or look better.

Skechers Shape-up shoes claim they can tone your legs, but one woman is saying they injured hers.

Basically, these companies are promising healthy weight loss only to make money, knowing that in the end, it is only false advertisement. The worst thing about the media being such a big influence on children and adults is that no one in the media is willing to change the obsession with perfection. As people become more influenced, ill, and provoked, the media only continues to only publish magazines with stick thin models with perfect features.

Skechers objective is to become the leader of casual and performance footwear while making sure their company has longevity. Skechers strives to to achieve this objective by offering different assortments of merchandises at a low cost. Skechers has been a prominent affordable footwear brand since it was first founded in 1992 by a man named Robert Greenberg. Before Skechers Robert had a successful California based branded called L.A. Gear, L.A. Gear took a sudden lack of interest by consumers so Robert decided to make an entirely different brand, which we now know as Sketchers. To fund his new brand Robert had an idea to license the image of the fictional film character E.T. to appear on shoelaces and sell them in retail stores which ended up making him in over three million dollars in revenue in just under 2 months.

Celebrity endorsements are one of the most famous methods of marketing used today. Celebrity endorsers are being used in about 25% of all the advertisements that we can see on the television. Marketers are investing large sums of money to have a contract with the celebrities as they believe that celebrities can affect the chances of success of a product. (Erica Weintraub Austina*, 2008) Kiakati

The athletic shoes industry has been a very successful industry throughout the years. But with every successful industry there’s ethical problems that some companies create in the athletic shoes industry. That’s where the shoes company Skechers comes in. Skechers started a new campaign about their new shoe line up called Skechers Shape Ups. One of the campaign’s commercials has some ethical problems that violated one of the Standards of Practice of the AAAA which is, false or misleading statements or exaggerations, visual or verbal, that needs to be addressed to make sure that these ethical problems don’t happen again by the same company or other companies in the industry. Some might believe that the Skechers Shape Ups campaign

Consumers think if the Kardashian’s are able to look this way using the product then they must be telling the truth, and it truly must be doing what they say it does. Through these words, the sisters are getting their audience to admit to the fact that they are in a way unhappy with their bodies, and that they do want to make changes. At the end of the dialogue, Kim says, “create the body you deserve…how hot can you be?” Here she is insinuating that due to what this product is supposed to do, make you lose weight fast, you will be viewed as attractive. In

In addition, the company makes humorous advertisements to mimic auto advertisements where advertisements are placed on the rear of the specialty DXP. Use of celebrities is also done which according to Kotler and Keller (2012) is a strategy that hinges on wooing the following of the celebrities. Celebrities are considered to have market influence and thus their approval of a product is likely to generate increased sales. The choice of celebrities is however important to ensure that brand identity is not lost. The company should therefore be keen to ensure that celebrities who have an influence on healthy eating are chosen so as to drive