Presentation Of A Multi Billion Dollar Industry

The promotionPromotion is the business of communicating with customers. It will provide information that will assist them in making a decision to purchase a product or service. The pace and creativity of some promotional activities are almost alien to normal business activities.The cost associated with promotion or advertising goods and services often represents a size-able proportion of the overall cost of producing an item. However, successful promotion increases sales so that advertising and other costs are spread over a larger output. Though increased promotional activity is often a sign of a response to a problem such as competitive activity, it enables an organization to develop and build up a succession of messages and can be extremely cost-effective.

The average United States Citizen views about 5000 advertisements a day (Johnson). Advertising is everywhere. Billboards on the way to work, ads on the internet, and paper products such as magazines or newspapers display a sale or a promotion of a good or service. Usually, the ad will give a brand or company name, and uses the product’s merits to draw the consumer closer. This has grown exponentially as advertisements in media in 1970 were estimated to be 500 a day, a ten percent increase in the last 48 years. (Johnson). This is due to the rise of technology, as the computer has become a household gadget within the new millenium. These advertisements are meant to give a synopsis of the product or service’s purpose, quality, and efficiency. If a consumer views 5000 advertisements in a single day and assuming the commercials do not repeat, 5000 goods or services are introduced. With more options to choose from in such little time, the consumer has a harder time differentiating the quality and perhaps necessity of the product. The marketers rely on the quick, impulsive decision making of consumers. With the misleading nature of many infomercials or radio broadcasts, the people of American society are bombarded with constant propaganda, thus making seemingly harmless promotions more potent to filling industries’ pockets and lessening the common population’s

1. Transcontinental Railroad-It started from Sacramento and Omaha, Nebraska and met in Utah. It took many land and the railroad companies made profit by selling the extra land they didn’t need.

“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

Based on what I have learned during Unit 5’s reading material, I would like to create an advertisement for a product that has been in existence for 130 years and that is Coca-Cola (www.coca-colacompany.com). Seeing that this product has been along longer than anyone living today, we could capitalize on the constancy of the product in the average person’s life. Coca-Cola has partially attained that constancy since storing long-term memories in the hippocampus requires a large number of phase processing to transition from short-term memory to long-term memory (Unit 5 PDF based reading material). Memories of childhood with parents, siblings, friends, loved-ones are based gatherings where food and drink are shared. I guarantee that there are many childhood or adolescent mnemonics and eidetic images of the Coca-Cola at the neighborhood diner, movie theatre, and domicile décor are prolific and constant in our memories.

These men were Captains of Industry. These men were Captains of Industry because all three of them donated money to charity. Rockefeller and Eastman thought it was a good thing for everyone to have good medical care. Carnegie donated money to get people to have a good education. All of these men donated money for different reasons. Carnegie donated over $350 million to build over 2,500 libraries. Eastman donated millions of dollars multiple time for children's dental care. And Rockefeller donated $50 million to help with Medical research, Health checks, Preventive care, and to Develop medicines for people that were sick. All of these Captains of industries helped the world in different ways.

As societies advance deeper into technology, so do the corporation and businesses that we as consumers support. The means of advertisement has changed significantly over the decades. For example before the television sets or radios were invented, general advertisement was commuted by word of mouth from shopkeepers, and posters, to the general populous. After the radio was invented, businesses could pay a fee to be promoted by local broadcasters over a larger radius than, word to mouth advertising would. Through the centuries many methods of advertising have spawned, however the most effective form of advertisement are televised commercials. Thanks to the use of television, companies and businesses have the ability to create intrapersonal commercials

From IPhones to new cars to discounted food, advertisements and the desire for the newest or cheapest items surround humans every day. Socially we are held responsible to not only “keep up with the Joneses” anymore, but also the Kardashians, Gates, and Walton families. Today’s society has proven that the desire to have the newest items for the most affordable prices stands more important than our true happiness. Joseph Turow provides in his article, The Daily You: How the New Advertising Industry Is Defining Your Identity and Worth, which the advertising industry has greatly affected your consumption habits and the prices you look for. James A. Roberts grows on that idea, in that with the help of these advertising firms, you continue to run

Television advertising has been a staple for companies since its start in the 1940’s. According to a 2016 study done by Nielsen, the average American adult watches five hours and four minutes of TV per day. Five hours is a large chunk of time to spend watching “the tube”. Companies are aware of this and try to capitalize on this opportunity as much as possible. Additionally, large scale broadcasting events such as the Superbowl and the Oscars are ways for companies to reach more widespread audiences than on a daily basis. These events are key in contributing to some businesses’ yearly revenue.

Many Americans gather and tune into their televisions to take part of an annual tradition that’s decides who takes home the football championship- the Superbowl. This television program annually commands the attention of the entire nation and captures an audience larger than any other television program throughout the year. The game has become more than just an annual sports event, but a well anticipated American tradition that initiates a sense of gathering. Advertisers are aware of the monumental impact that the Super bowl has over consumers. As the result, advertisers spend a respectable amount of time strategically planning in order to create content to capture the attention, and manipulate the audiences that they intend

The first will take the shape of an infographic which takes the relevant and generally interesting information from Kushnick’s $200 Billion Broadband Scandal, such as the number which is the title’s namesake and facts such as telecom companies owe the average household over two-thousand dollars each, and place them in a visually and logically appealing manner. Font, colors, figures, and other details with the infographic have yet to be determined, though the content is more set in stone. As to the length of the infographic, it should take no more than a single swipe of the phone or a single desktop screen to legibly display all the information contained therein. Additionally, at the end of the infographic, a link to Kushnick’s original work, as well as a link to write to the reader’s representatives, will be provided. After this infographic has been made, a short video, to be no longer than about twenty seconds, will be made with content from the infographic. This video is to be no longer than about twenty seconds, and thus may have to omit or rephrase some information from the infographic. According to data from advertisement agencies, most viewers will watch only about twenty seconds of a thirty second ad before moving on (Oser 31). Thus, this short twenty second length ensures that most viewers will be more likely to watch it in its entirety and thereby take action. From this short video, a .gif graphic can also be made with similar specifications. By adopting this shotgun multimedia approach, the odds increase that any given social media user sees it multiple times. With increased viewings, even including partial views, any particular individual on social media is more likely to examine the media in question. The concept has been illustrated within the advertising industry, where repetition priming results in greater recognition of the product for up to several months (Bruce 502).

Marketing products and services to customers forces marketers to look in depth to what the customers are thinking. They need to be able to catch the customers’ attention and make them want to buy or use a specific product or service. There are hundreds of ways marketers can achieve this, but since the world has turned digital, marketing in turn has turned its focus toward outlets that allow them to utilize this. One of the most popular methods of this is commercials. They are considered such an effective marketing tool because the company is able to get their message directly to their audience. One thirty second commercial can be seen instantly by millions, especially during the Super Bowl where the commercials attract their own set of viewers

Wherever one looks barraged by an advertisement or marketing ads. Whether you are appreciating a day of shopping or heading to work, promotions encompass you. It appears we never get a break from this production. In addition, we see them so much we have developed resistance to their nearness. There are numerous approaches to publicize an item, and ordinarily the similarities are self-evident. Analyzing commercials intently uncovers that paying little respect to the likenesses and contrasts in notices, the primary motivation behind a promotion is to engage a specific group of onlookers.

James Carey states in his essay “Communication as Culture”, that when information is received in transmission form of communication, “Questions arise as to the effects of this on audiences” (20). In other words producers of the information pay attention to the fact that people who receive the information act according to their intention. One of the finest examples of this process; are advertisements which are produced by certain companies who want people to buy their products. However, many people react differently to advertisements, which means some people will be affected by them and will purchase the product, and the others will not even pay attention to it or will not bother themselves to buy the product. To prove this statement I will

Kover et al. (1995) defines effectiveness in advertising as ‘‘the ability of an announcement to produce interest in purchase or use the good or service it is promoting’’ (Kover, Goldberg and James, 1995). Many researchers have tried to establish a link between the content and effectiveness of advertisements, and this will help us to identify some general factors that affect advertising, in order to recognize which one can maximize the desired effectiveness.