Old Spice, Become A Man

Old Spice is very blatant in the way they attract their customers. An obvious example is The Man Your Man Could Smell Like commercial. In this advertisement Old Spice envisions their audience to be anyone who is in a relationship or trying to be in relationship. The more obvious targeted audience is the female audience. To attract the female audience they put an attractive man in the commercials and try to make it seem that if their “man” uses old spice body washes their “man” will be like him.

The commercial shown in figure 1 is for a perfume called ‘the one gentleman’ which Matthew Mcconaughey a well-known actor did for Dolce & Gabbana, a trade mark for designer products. The commercial tells us that this is a body spray to use when one wants to be seen as a gentleman. In reality a gentleman is not a man who just uses this body spray, but a man is seen as a gentleman by certain attributes society sees as being acceptable. Commercials like these can really have an impact because the viewer wants to look like the person with the body spray, and themselves be perceived as a gentleman. The unspoken

There are bodily hygiene advertisements in almost every magazine, TV station, radio station, billboards, and even postal mail. Every one of them is different and is trying to send a different message to a certain group that the product would most likely appeal to. The 0ctober 2011 issue number 1141 of Rolling Stone magazine there is an ad for Old spice men’s soaps, cologne, and deodorant that is a very interesting to the college age kids and music enthusiast that would normally read it. Through the advertisements use of layout and models, Old Spice has effectively caught the eyes of the many people that would stumble across it.

To start with, in the first couple of scenes of the commercial, an animal is following a person around. In the following scene, two people come face to face and they talk about the animal’s name. Then, there is a flashback scene explaining the name of the animal. Towards the end, the commercial advertises its product with an animal in different ways. At the very end, there is a flashback scene of a human and an animal.

Calvin Klein understands the fact that men will buy a cologne that will, not only make them smell “hot”, but make them feel like it too. They employ a windowed effect with this poster, by providing the image of a future that can only be achieved by using this product. By utilizing this ad, men will automatically associate the experience of using this

Authors can convey abstract ideas or non-existent characters to life with the assistance of rhetorical devices by communicating the nature of emotions to the intended audience. Allowing the audience to connect and relate with the abstract ideas. The usage of apostrophe can be found in literature and even in media. The usage of apostrophe is most evident within the Old Spice commercials. Isaiah Mustafa plays the role as the “man your man could smell like” in the commercial, who narrates and performs a simple monolog throughout. Mustafa can directly connect with the audience with the assistance of “breaking the fourth wall,” to guide their directions and appeal to their emotions. As a marketing technique, the motives of these Old Spice commercial is an attempt to appeal to the female audience whereas typically it is geared towards men.

television advertisement companies, main intention is to captivate the audience in other to purchase their product that they are portraying. In this essay, I will be analyzing these two ads, “Whale” (Old Spice) and “Susan Glenn” (Axe). These ads are formulated to get their products noticed, along with sparking the interest of the other goods they may offer. Countless methods are used to convince the audience that’s being targeted to buy the product. Therefore, these ads are similar in its ability to gain the attention of their audiences by appealing to pathos. Through this essay I will analyze the rhetorical effects that help bring these commercials to life.

Old Spice is a man's deodorant company that uses a man's attractiveness to their company’s advantage. In this commercial a very fit male is telling you that your man may not look like him, but your man can smell like him. For example, “Anything is possible when your man smells like Old Spice and not a lady”(ENGL Rhetorical Analysis: Old Spice Commercial). This quote is promising that if your spouse or loved one uses Old Spice then he will not only smell great but it is possible to look that fit. Which is not impossible, but it may give false hope to some people, by making it look easier than it is to be fit. “Advertising is modifying the way it targets young people. Its renewed efficiency is enhanced by the current context of young people’s relationship with technical and technological devices” (Bermejo, pg. 157-165). This statement portrays the reason ads are modifying and blowing up most mobile devices. For instance instead of just seeing commercials on TV, we now see them on Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, and almost any mobile game you

The commercial starts out silent, panning over a open road, out in the country, with a single silhouette of a person running at the end of it. You can slightly hear the sound of the runners shoes scraping the asphalt and his heavy breathing. The narrator then begins to talk about greatness. How it 's just something we made up, and many of us believe that it 's a gift reserved for a few chosen, and that the rest can only stand by and watch. All while the runner is getting closer to the camera, at this point you can now tell that he is overweight kid and struggling to run at a mere

Advertisements these days use many different techniques in order to sell a product. The Old Spice Company uses several methods to convey a message and sell their product. Old Spice commercials are well known for using the famous Isaiah Mustafa, wrapped in just a towel, to talk about the company’s product. While Mustafa walks and talks, the background and setting of the commercial changes and the actor never loses eye contact. The product is always shown throughout the entire commercial. By combining all the elements of gender stereotyping, sexual imagery, and racial innuendoes, Old Spice is able to convey a message to sell their hygienic products.

The Old Spice commercial persuade the viewers to purchasing the body wash. The adverstiments were targeting couples; however, their main focus was to persuade females more than males. The Old Spice commercial targets female because they would go shopping and buy fragrance and soap products. In the adverstiments, Old Spice man said “I ‘am the man your man could smell like” were speaking directly to the female audience. The Old Spice commercial wanted to encourage females to go out shopping and buy Old Spice body wash in order to have their

​ 1. The highly popular Old Spice commercials addresses a number of issues related to the construction of masculinities in contemporary American culture. In the 2012 Smell is Power Old Spice commercial, it offers great insight into cultural ideas related to the construction of hegemonic masculinity and implies the masculinity constructed through the protagonist’s, Terry Crews, appearance and body, sexuality, behavior, and his character pattern and mannerisms.

In the old spice commercial “Smell like a Man, Man”, Isaiah Mustafa asks his audience if they want a man who can bake them a gourmet cake in a dream kitchen that he built with his own hands. He then goes on to answer that question by saying of course you do. He asks his target audience this unusual question along with a series of other funny, sarcastic questions as he moves from frame to frame while also continuing to define the image of a so called “perfect man”. The commercial thus begins with a seemingly attractive, man (Isaiah Mustafa) standing in a towel without a shirt, on the beach grasping a bottle of Old Spice. He states that he being an attractive model man is because of the use Old Spice body wash.

This Old Spice ad is very effective because of its its clever use of ethos and pathos and innovative style. The Old Spice commercial begins with a good looking guy just getting out of the shower and he starts directing his conversation right to the

Most of us have seen the old spice commercials with The best talking Isaiah Mustafa, better known as "the old spice man". These commercials first began during the Super Bowl in 2010 and have since then became a series of popular commercials. But what is it that makes these ads so appealing. To consider this question I 'm going to break down "the man your man can smell like" commercial. This advertisement is far from reality when selling the product, clever use of the three primary aspects of appeal persuaded many people to use old spice and at the same time helped old spice reach a close connection with its target audience, this embedding itself into our popular culture.