The CW’s Niche The CW has aired Gossip Girl, Vampire Diaries, and Supergirl which are loved and widely known by a dominant audience of women. The channel has gained a strong name within the TV network throughout the years and still upholds a large audience. A niche appeals to a specialized group of people, such as a targeted specific audience. The CW is an ad-supported niche content provider, that has upheld the reputation of being watched by mainly women ranging from ages 18 to 34. The network lures in advertisers targeting women because of its shows that portray female protagonists in different scenarios. Advertisement companies that mainly target younger women use The CW for promoting new products. These companies strategically place their …show more content…
According to Potter, a media platform targets and produces messages by looking at the audiences “appeal to existing needs and interests” (Potter 69). The CW took their niche into account when partnering up with different beauty companies to promote empowerment through women. Covergirl partnered up with The CW’s new show riverdale, which gave each female character a different product that matched their variety of personalities. The CW and Covergirl want to reach out to the audience to “be encouraged to try different techniques to play up their personalities, moods, features” (Steinberg “CW Taps Cover Girl”). According to the network’s senior vice president of integrated marketing, Barbra Robin, they are hopeful that through this advertisement, they can attract more advertisers that target a female audience, in order to create “more stories.” Gina Rodriguez, who stars in Jane the Virgin, says "art tears down misconceptions and opens eyes to the beauty of our differences. We can't all be the same, but we can learn a lot about what we are not through art" (Crupi “CW UPFRONTS DIARY”). The CW was able to promote this message by partnering with Dove in order to create “The Campaign for Real Beauty,” that uses all women of different shapes and sizes, rather than a typical TV model. The Dove brand had their commercials during Gossip Girl because they wanted to promote beauty in all ways by using The CW to target a younger audience, since it’s demographic is usually women over 35 (Steinberg CW's 'Cwinger' ). These ads were presented to promote women to be who they feel they want to be, rather than what a typical women feels they need to be. The advertisements were strategically placed in the different shows in order to be able to speak to The CW’s niche that they have so strongly
the CW: On Monday nights at 9:00pm on the CW the popular show 90210 comes on. The show is popular among high school and early college students but also appeals to the target audience which makes the CW’s 90210 a direct competitor. Even though 90210 is not a comedy is has been around for, going on, six seasons and has viewer loyalty.
Recently American Eagle’s lingerie brand, Aerie, completely changed their advertising campaign to AerieReal. The AerieReal campaign consists of only un-retouched and no Photoshopped models. Before the AerieReal campaign, Aerie used models that were retouched and Photoshopped to make the models appear skinner and “more attractive”. The AerieReal campaign’s focus is to defy what other lingerie brands, such as Victoria’s Secret, sell in their advertisements. Aerie is trying to challenge the message of true beauty is only if you are skinny by saying that “The real you is sexy”. Aerie is accomplishing this by changing their advertisements in the hopes that girls will grow up to be socialized with a more positive and inclusive message, defy gender roles associated with women, and lastly, confront stereotypes of white and colored women.
The Cover Girl ad from March 2011 includes a picture of Queen Latifah in a beige like colored background with her green eye shadow on. Queen Latifah has small brown eyes with very long and luscious black eye lashes. She has a big and beautiful smile with shiny white and straight teeth. Queen Latifah also has a nice pair of small, gold, round dangling earrings in her ears. The word “Cover Girl” is displayed in big and bold green letters across her forehead, all to help improve her the way she looks. Queen Latifah is written in small green letters underneath in the right-hand corner right underneath the word “Cover Girl”. This picture of her is from her head to her shoulders, just enough for the viewers to focus on Cover Girl’s product, which is the makeup. You cannot really tell what type of shirt she is wearing in this photo but the little piece of frill coming off of her shoulder matches pretty well with the whole color scheme of the ad. She also has her hair pulled back into a long pony tail to also help show off their product even more. This advertisement by Cover Girl effectively uses logos, ethos, and pathos to convince the viewers to buy Cover Girl products.
The objective of this campaign was to get their customers to buy Dove over another brand but the claim was to prove that all women are uniquely beautiful in their own ways. So in other words, show the attractiveness but at the same time they showed how companies deceive their customers. The Dove Evolution Commercial starts off by showing an average looking woman with no makeup on and natural hair. Throughout the commercial, they fast forward, more and more people come and start doing the woman’s hair and makeup. After this appearance, they begin taking pictures and select one that meets their standard. But they’re not done yet, they take that picture and photo shop it. They change the size of her neck, face, and make her skin look smoother than ever. This shows how companies can use any image and change it into something totally different from the natural self. The product who is a gorgeous model appears nothing like the average woman they showed in the beginning of this commercial. This is called the compare and contrast method, a strategy Dove used the most to show the differences and similarities of something. They first show a natural woman and then after editing, they showed a completely fake person because it looks nothing like the original. Companies who do this deceive society just to gain their revenue but the sad thing is they don’t care
Advertising is everywhere, it’s online, billboards, magazines, and the most popular television. Different advertising are mostly targeting towards a certain gender, age, or interests. Covergirl advertising is mostly targeted at women, and is also seen in every place you can think of. You most likely could go up to any girl and ask her-what is the Covergirl slogan? Easy, Breezy, Beautiful, Covergirl. Covergirl has done a great job at advertising there make-up products. Covergirl has branched out to every type of advertising there is. They have commercials, bill boards, online ads, there in many magazines, and they are also being promoted on the poplar show America’s Next Top
In addition, Covergirl also uses pathos. We know they target women because it is makeup. The products they advertise are for every woman and age in the audience. It makes sense, the older celebrities are to get older women and younger celebrities get younger women. In majority of the ads out there the companies try to diversify their product to get more sales. For example, Covergirl uses Ellen DeGeneres, Rihanna, Sofia Vergara, Queen Latifah, and Drew Barrymore to appeal different consumers. The diversity helps bring a lot more money in, rather it focusing on one set group. It helps a lot because many women have some insecurities and don’t really feel proud of their appearance. Their products also help with self-esteem. Many adolescents and adults only feel cute when they are using the products like mascara. Women may suffer from peer pressure. Their friends may threaten to stop hanging out with them because they aren’t wearing makeup. Covergirl can help with that to make women feel loved and welcomed with the people around them, but most importantly with themselves. It makes sense, the older celebrities are to get older women and younger celebrities get
Jean Kilbourne is an advocate for women and is leading a movement to change the way women are viewed in advertising. She opens up the curtains to reveal the hard truth we choose to ignore or even are too obtuse to notice. Women are objectified, materialized, and over-sexualized in order to sell clothes, products, ideas and more. As a woman, I agree with the position Kilbourne presents throughout her documentary Killing Us Softly 4: The Advertising’s Image of Women (2010) and her TEDx Talk The Dangerous Ways Ads See Women (2014.) She demonstrates time and again that these advertisements are dangerous and lead to unrealistic expectations of women.
In the ad there is the custom of bright colors that is used in a soft way lot to get some kind of interaction and effect with the audience and the product itself because it “confirms that purchasing intent is greatly affected by colors due to the impact they have on how a brand is perceived”(Ciotti) meaning “colors influence how consumers view the "personality" of the brand.” (Ciotti) And from the looks of the personality of the brand it was known that Cover Girl has been out for a long time and knows what makes it a popular makeup brand that has made color affects a big part of their brand they used in their advertisements and
The most important challenges for a new television network include advertising, settling on a target demographic, building a distribution system, and market the new brand. With the case of CW, dividing the responsibilities between the former WB and former UPN networks was also a major challenge, in addition to deciding which shows from each network would continue. Distribution is the primary concern, as it’s important for the network, especially a new one, to reach as much of the country as possible. Finding affiliate stations and distributors was crucial for the CW to start off successfully. Fortunately for them, they were able to secure many of the former UPN and WB stations and distributors and broadcast to 95% of the country,
One will see a white female with pouting red lips and the very petite body that resembles a thirteen-year-old girl. The extremely artificial women and the heavily photo-shopped pictures in these ad’s create a norm and make those women who look differently, feel insecure of who they are and make them feel as if they are less of a woman, for example they tend to over represent the Caucasian, blonde with bright eyes, white complexion and a petite body. This is an unattainable beauty for most women, which has caused many to develop issues such as eating disorders, depression and the very much talked about these days, anorexia.
In most commercial advertisements on television, women show more skin than men. Commercials use women to sell sex because it attracts more attention than men showing their bodies. For instance, Britney Spears, a singer whom many teenagers admire, appeared in a music commercial for Z100, the number one radio station in New York. Z100 promotes commercially hot music in modes such as pop, rock, and R&B. In Z100’s new commercial, Britney Spears is wearing a beige outfit consisting of a tight tube top and small shorts that accent her chest and buttocks. After talking for a moment, she starts dancing with her back facing the camera. Viewers are visually drawn to the shape of her body. As spokesperson for Z100, Britney Spears is being used as a marketing tool to attract men and increase ratings. Z100 could have had a popular male in its commercial. Instead the company’s executives chose a popular woman known for her hourglass figure because men prefer to look at young, shapely, nubile women.
Redbook magazine are devoted to selling products ranging from shoes to shampoo. The entire magazine only has only 210 pages. Approximately 6-8 min of every half hour television show is produced by ad agencies. Americans are bombarded with advertisements. We see them everyday in many different forms and through different mediums. Advertisers study America’s population through a systematic breakdown and analysis of our likes and dislikes in relation to our differences. These differences include gender, sexual orientation, economic status, location, race, ethnicity, and more. Advertisers have substantial knowledge of what appeals to each of these demographics and how these demographics will respond to
In the competitive market America has today, all companies strive to be the number one choice for consumers out of all their competitors. To achieve this goal, companies use various strategies in their advertisements to appeal to the public. The company, Donna Karan New York (also known as DKNY) is one of the millions of companies that works rhetorically in its advertisement for its Be Delicious perfume. With sexual innuendos, symbolism, attention grabbing images, the creation an image of beauty, and the indication that one will be unique after using the product, DKNY effectively advertises its Be Delicious perfume.
These roles for females represent what the advertisement industry believe buyers deem as the real world. As Goffman asked," What messages about women have been given to society through magazine
Many young women in today’s society struggle with confidence and their body image. This is a huge problem in society and many people have spoken out against the influence of media on women’s body image. However, it continues to be a major problem and more can always be done to raise awareness about societies unrealistic expectations for women’s beauty. Dove’s Choose Beautiful campaign was started to promote the self-esteem of women and encourage them to see their beauty, however there are some criticisms, including the company using this campaign to increase their sales. Dove is selling a product with the expectation that confident, beautiful women will purchase it, however people still have the ability to resist the ad industry.