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Who Is Bandwagoning Really Leads Successful?

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In our poster we chose to include advertising techniques such as bandwagon, glittering generalities, and name calling. On the poster as can be seen we included a girl holding up a can of coconut water and a table with can of coconut water. In the article, “Leads Successful Petition for Seventeen Magazine to Portray Girls Truthfully” Bluhm writes on Seventeen Magazine vowing on being able to “celebrate every kind of beauty” as to use photographs of real girls and models (Bluhm 1). We wished to be able to bring the idea of a drink for everyone to want and desire, giving the feeling that buyers should buy this to find something they all like and enjoy. This technique called bandwagoning, used to be able to motivate people towards a product they would enjoy. Likewise, another …show more content…

We wanted to be able to give more pizzazz to the drink by including words like “refreshing”; So buyers won’t miss out a “drink of a lifetime”. This technique is called glittering generalities, which is a way to get buyers to see “good” labels displaying how the product is presented in a positive way. Finally, we chose to include in the top left corner of the poster a pile of red cans near a trash can. In the article, “Marketers and Mean Girls” Brandwashed conducted a poll stating that “112,000 teenagers in thirty countries, just under half of all teenagers factor in the brand when making purchase decisions, with Nike, Lacoste, Adidas, Sony, and Apple being the most popular among the boys, and Zara, H&M, and Roxy among the girls” (Lindstrom 2). We wanted to give the impression that the other brand of coconut water weren’t popular and so buyers shouldn’t buy a product that isn’t

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