Pundits In Advertising

     Michael Jordan has star power that bridges age, race, and socioeconomic class. Nike understands this aspect of the popular superstar and decided to give him his own clothing line named Jumpman23. It is the most popular form of sports apparel available and the white logo that adorns each article of apparel is known worldwide. Michael Jordan is arguably the most loved and respected athlete of this generation, thus the ad for this company depicted in ESPN The Magazine takes advantage of his immense popularity. In an attempt to expand the companies influence Jumpman23 uses professional baseball player Derrick Jeter to send its message and promote its apparel. In the essay “Absolution for Sale,” Charity

Ever since the start of commercial radio in the 20’s and the since the first silver screen entered the market, broadcasting messages by celebrities has been a tool employed to endorse products.”Just about every star was associated with one sponsor’s product he or she plugged.”(1). Over the years celebrity endorsement became an essential part of marketing (more than 25% of television ads feature celebrities)(5), for the endorser it became an easy way of generating an income while for the endorsing company it became a guaranteed way to reach a wide segment of potential clients.

What does an ad say about a society? When viewing a product advertisement, many people never stop to think why the ad and product appeals to them. However, when a more critical look is taken, it’s easy to see precisely how ads are carefully tailored to appeal to trending values of a targeted demographic, and how that makes it easy to examine the society of those whom the ad is targeted at. In the analytic writing Advertisements R Us, Melissa Rubin provides an excellent example of this, as she crafts a logical and clear analysis of a 1950’s Coca-Cola magazine ad which thoroughly explains how advertisements can reveal quite a great deal about the society in which they were created.

In today’s society there are a plethora of ideas about advertisement. What would it take to meet societies want’s with the increase in advertising of new technology? In regards to four articles: “What’s Changed” by , Jane Hammerslough, “Urban Warfare” by, Kate MacArthur & Hilary Chura, “The Age of Reason” by, Kenneth Hein, “The Buzz on Buzz” by, Renee Dye. These four authors describe the many different angles that can be approached by advertisement. They have also shown some great aspects of the new uprising development of advertising technology in modern American society.

In today’s day and age technology makes it easier for false reporting to arise, but that same technology also is making it easier to see through the flaws in the system. Many are still wondering “if” and “when” full intervention will take place. In 2010, Free Press sent in a letter asking that these practices be investigated: “This week, Free Press filed a letter asking the FCC to take action to put an end to fake news. The letter urges the FCC to investigate new instances of fake news, conclude its review of pending complaints and put new rules on the books that would require stricter and more prominent disclosure of paid spots.” (Reinish). How refreshing is it to see words being put into actions, and working to get to the bottom of the issue, for many different purposes? It remains to be seen if these efforts result in changes in how news reporting goes about. “…Free Press and the Center for Media and Democracy exposed numerous stations in 2006 and 2007…Three years later, we are still waiting for the FCC to take a stand. While we wait, advertisers are inventing new ways to insert their products into our news programs. Their latest tactic is the paid “expert.” These hucksters appear on live newscasts purporting to be experts on everything from toys to travel. Without saying a word, anchors hand the microphone to these paid spokespeople and provide them with a free platform to pitch

The author of the mock press release of The Onion use strategies that ridicule how products are marketed to consumers. The author supports their opinion by providing different strategies to try to get customers to invest in buying their product. The author appeals to their audience by attempting to establish literary credibility.

If there is one thing that limits news networks, and truly any form of presentation, it is viewership. Constant ads and propaganda can yield returns, but real people caring to watch, is the one thing not in companies control. There’s no doubt that there’s a certain group of people who watch the news, and a group that doesn’t. However, Comedians such as Jon Stewart, Stephen Colbert, or ksdj are in a position of telling the news, extremely similar to the actual news, but to people who rarely ever watch a news program. In this sense, These men have the obligation to provide as quality and trustworthy information as they can for their viewers. They are educating a whole group of people who are not willing to find news anywhere else. Without fail week after week, the daily show provides a means of understanding the political system for common men. “If you watch the news and don't like it, then this is your counter program to the news,” He provides an alternative, a place to escape from the corruption that has taken over news. The result is a better educated populace. By engaging those who care little for politics and finding a way of interpreting what the American public can’t understand, these parody shows are expanding society's knowledge. It’s even gotten to point where study's find that watchers of these shows, are

My artifact for society today is a bunch magazine advertisements because I feel like the world runs on advertisements. Our minds are constantly being sold to advertisers. Anywhere we look, we will always see some form of advertisement. Billboards, posters, magazine covers, and other print media are visible almost everywhere. If Julianne hough or Katy Perry never advertised for pro active would any of us really try it? I mean they’re famous and they would “never” lie to their fans right? If kate Hudsons photoshopped abs of steel were not on the front page cover of “Women's Health” would we really believe the capitalized bolded words under it that says “Crazy-Hot ABS! in 15 minutes - shortcuts to a lean, sexy belly” with a arrow to her abs. advertising

I watched the show Crminal Minds on January 26, 2016 from 12 -1 pm. During this show there were 34 advertisements in total during the show. The advertisements covered a variety of things such as promoting new shows that would be coming on in the future that are in the same category of programs as Criminal Minds. There were several commercials about life insurance car insurance, as well as a number of medications. There were also commercials pertaining to anti aging skin care products as well. The commercials seemed to be trying to connect with those that like similar programming to what we were watching. The commercials also seemed to be trying to reach an audience that might be home for lunch at that time of day and was trying to cover

In the Hunter/Gatherer section of Omnivore’s Dilemma, Pollan talks about what it takes to accomplish the task of developing a meal on his own; consequently, the people of today’s society are so used to the abundance of food that they have no idea what all is involved in establishing a full meal. Americans take this great abundance of food for granted, which causes an increased craving for more. This is where the world of advertisement has been the strongest. One of the easiest ways to reach people is through their food; therefore, major food industries try to lure people in at all costs just to buy their products. The Fast food industry is the

Companies like Victoria’s Secret and Aerie has shaped societal views on how women should look in lingerie. They use super skinny supermodels with long legs, big boobs, a small waist and long hair to promote their companies in ads and fashion shows. Though they use women of many ethnicities in their campaigns to create a sense of diversity, they display a message that women of any color should look like their models do in their products.

According to Bassham et al. (2002), a logical fallacy is “an argument that contains a mistake in reasoning” (p. 140). There are two types of logical fallacies, fallacies of relevance, and fallacies of insufficient evidence. Fallacies of relevance happen when the premises are not logically relevant to the conclusion. Fallacies of insufficient evidence occur when the premises do not provide sufficient evidence to support the conclusion. Though there are several logical fallacies, four logical fallacies commonly found in advertising are amphiboly, appeal to authority, appeal to emotion, and non sequitur.

The viewer sits on the couch, nestled inside a cozy, warm blanket with a large bowl of buttery and salty popcorn on his lap. His heart starts racing as the movie reaches its climax. Just as his lungs stop breathing and his eyes grow wide with fascination, the channel changes to an old advertisement that he’s seen a thousand times. Ads like that one appeal to the three main techniques that have subliminal messages to viewers. These different techniques have proven to be effective with television watchers. Advertisers use these three techniques to target a certain audience.

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

Advertising is a persuasive communication attempt to change or reinforce one’s prior attitude that is predictable of future behavior. We are not born with the attitudes for which we hold toward various things in our environment. Instead, we learn our feelings of favorability or unfavorability through information about the object through advertising or direct experience with the object, or some combination of the two. Furthermore, the main aim of advertising is to ‘persuade’ to consumer in order to generate new markets for production.