A Research Paper on The History and Development of Online Advertisement
In the beginning of the Internet era, users did not encounter much advertising as they slowly scrolled the infinite pages of the Internet. Now in the midst of an ever- evolving technology based society, the world of marketing and advertisement is making a strong effort to stay up current with the heavy use of the Internet in society. Online and social media advertisements are rapidly changing in an attempt to keep getting their products in front of the public at any opportunity possible. This paper will discuss the history and development of the origins of advertising, the present state and role of advertising in social media and online, and future of the online advertising market, this paper will also examine how these advertisements have developed to stay up with our fast paced life styles.
Before the use of Internet advertising, companies and advertising agencies had to stay up to date on potential locations they could use as area to post ads. With the development of the Internet this allowed a seemingly endless number of possibilities and space for companies to post advertisements that could potentially reach a large audience at just the click of a button. Internet Advertising began with the use of spam mail or junk mail, which is defined as “disruptive messages, especially commercial messages posted on a computer network or sent by email.” (http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/spam) The first
Since the mid to late 1900’s, the advertising industry has taken off and found new ways to persuade consumers to purchase products. As is the case with most things nowadays, social media has been a monumental part in the above mentioned forward progression the advertising industry has faced. Therefore, given the modern day advances of technology, social media and advertisers have found it increasingly more easy to join forces along the journey of fusing consumers into one massive cache. However, regardless of new advances, analysts have made an abundance of shocking discoveries that besmirch advertisers and their work in recent decades. As Jack Solomon wrote in his article, “Masters of Desire: The Culture of American Advertising”, “if
Back to the 70’s the biggest campaign was using sodas, like 7UP's "Un-Cola”, Coca-Cola and Pepsi. We also see more advertisement on television and marketing teams looking at trends to see how and why such campaigns worked and which were flops. Moving into the 80’s and 90’s we see that computers are slowly starting taking over advertisement. It isn’t until the 2000’s when we start to see more and more marketing strategies and in the 2010’s we see that platforms such as Google, YouTube, Facebook, and Twitter start to influence and branch out to different
Sherry Turkle made an interesting point in her article called No Need to Call. That point was with new technology we have developed new ways to socialize with our friends, and family. I believe that with this new technology there has arrived new ways to advertise products, places, shows, movies, even people as well. We all have seen ads on websites we visit. Some ads are on the sides of websites, some are even in the middle of them.
The period of 1870 – 1917 was changing times for Americans. Buisnesses were on the rise, unquestionably the most important changes were the nation’s rapid industrilization and urbanization. More people were starting to focus more on their image, women were wanting more of a role than just raising the children and doing dishes, children were being brougt up as young adults and the main thing everyone was becoming all about money and fame.
Adverts have been around for hundreds of years, and have since developed hugely as technology has enabled us to advance even more. Adverts have developed from illustration with text in the early 1700’s to large high definition photograph/illustration on billboard or TV advertisements with high definition. (Adage, website, 1999) Advertising in the 21st century doesn’t just stop at billboards and TV advertisements. We have now gone onto using every space available to us to advertise, we are surrounded by adverts, or even advertisements surrounds us. Its endless, everywhere we go, we see adverts posted on a wall or on websites that we visit.
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
Social media is not new. Facebook has been around since 2004, YouTube since 2005, and Twitter in 2006. What is new is how social media sites like Facebook, YouTube and Twitter are affecting the way businesses market their products and services. Never before in our history have consumers been able to communicate so effortlessly with each other and with the businesses they frequent. Never before have businesses been able to interact and react to customer feedback so quickly and efficiently. However, just because businesses have the ability to use social media for their marketing and advertising efforts, does not necessarily mean they should. This paper intends to
The purpose of this essay is to understand how over time advertisements have changed and evolved with the times. Also. Its purpose is to understand how companies advertised in the face of adversity. Companies change the way they advertise with the changing times. These companies have to know how to get the attention of the people they are focusing on, therefore they have to know what the people of the times want. If someone is willing to dig deep into an advertisement and read between the lines they are likely to find a lot more meaning than simply the words that are written or the pictures that are illustrated.
Advertising has steadfastly served the print business for a long time, and was connected to the Internet with each desire of achievement. Web promoting started with Center and Siegel 's in well known Green Card Lottery message on the Usenet website in April 1994 and was followed in October by publicizing arrangements for AT&T, MCI, Sprint, and Volvo on Hot-wired lastly the thought got on. The Advertisement developed in advancement, and today there are Static, pivoting, looking over, enlivened, streak and interstitial standard promotions all which are intended to create movement, expand brand mindfulness and produce leads and deals. Web organizations were established on publicizing incomes, and for a few years the organizations flourished.
Advertisements are a huge part of our everyday lives. We see different types of ads everywhere we look; while watching television, listening to the radio, riding on the bus and even walking around your school campus. It seems like the whole world is being flooded by advertisements.
Despite the fact that we’re already in the 21st century, society continues to show signs of progress and development strongly leaning towards the direction of advancement, constantly evolving. This pattern is no different from the world of advertising, as it has also evolved through the years and quite recently an unexpected technological innovation took the world by storm. It made such a tremendous impact that eventually led to the transformation of traditional marketing, and it’s no other than social media that we all learned to love.
Advertisements work in such a way that we grow to envy those we are not; they exploit our perceived flaws by displaying a person who is the living and breathing version of who we wish to be. John Berger in his book, Ways of Seeing, explains that publicity works by convincing his reader that advertisements use envy to entice the public to buy products: “Publicity persuades us...by showing us people who have apparently been transformed and are, as a result, enviable” (131). Though Berger published his book in 1972, his arguments about envy and publicity still hold truth, perhaps now more than ever. Furthermore, the more present advertisements are in our everyday life, the more envious our society becomes. With the power of envy, those who fall under its spell become choiceless, and therefore powerless. Berger also argues in his book that there is a correlation between the number of advertisements we see and the less freedom Americans possess. However, Berger believes that capitalism hides this powerlessness with the illusion of choice: “Publicity helps to mask and compensate for all that is undemocratic within society” (149). This idea Berger has relates not only to the advertisement of products, but also to present-day politics. Withheld information creates power using envy which is used in both advertisements and the US government. As more envy is created with modern day technology, and we become more immersed into social media, the further we stray from democracy.
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.
Advertising is the best method for businesses to convey their products to the consumers because they make it look good through their eyes. The internet is being used to advertise also as
Acceleration Media CEO Tony Sousa claims the world of media is changing at an unprecedented rate as technology disrupts the established business models for publishing and advertising, as consumers change the way in which they consume information, services and entertainment (Sousa, 2013). Mass media advertising as we know it today is perishing. Advertising agencies have had to restructure their advertising models to accommodate a harsher advertising climate. This forces brands to formulate effective ways to reach their customers. The main factor contributing to traditional advertisings’ impending demise is the invention of new forms of technology, namely the internet. The creation of the internet has resulted in the fragmentation of media and markets. Media fragmentation is the breaking up of large audiences into smaller audience fragments due to the increase of media choices available (Tuten, 2008). Advertising has to spread further, covering a multitude of channels to gain the same exposure (Rust & Oliver, 1994). Media platforms provide endless benefits,