Advertising is
of the things that has become prevalent in our society
and its all-encompassing nature has been
exacerbated by our reliance on modern technology
. I do believe in the power it has when influencing
’s purchasing decisions.
, it is important that it must be done right to be able to unleash its full potential.
, I will be looking into the aspects of advertising that has made it so powerful.
thing that
benefit from
is the internet. Many big technology companies
as Google, Facebook and Amazon collect data from our browsing habits
as the websites we visit, the items we click on and the duration we spend on a website.
data is more commonly known as cookies. With
data, they are able to create a personal profile for each individual and use that to personalise and tailor
.
, if
was shopping for handbags online, all they would see in the advertisement ecosystem would be handbags. It is
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them powerful as they make you more likely to buy things.
,
nowadays use a variety of techniques to elicit various emotions by depicting different situations and selling the upsides.
, a recent Heineken commercial capitalised on the Euro 2020 tournament to show a group of friends having fun while drinking Heineken and watching football to make more consumers interested in buying their beer over their competitors’. Another advertisement for diapers used a scene of a mother easily changing her baby’s diapers and heaving a sigh of relief using
particular brand.
would have made parents more likely to buy
brand to reduce some of the stress they experience when taking care of a baby. These are just two aspects of advertising that have made it so powerful in influencing ones purchasing decisions
.
, when advertising is overdone and done in
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wrong way, people no longer pay attention to it and may even boycott the product
being advertised. The important thing with advertising is that it has to be done with the correct frequency. Too few
may not result in the desired outcome of increasing purchases.
, too many
will shun people away.
is advertising on the popular video-sharing platform, YouTube. Nowadays many videos have multiple
in the middle of the video and in many
these
cannot be skipped.
results in viewers being unhappy with the
and creates a negative effect for the company as lesser people will buy their products.
,
have to be properly placed for them to be effective. No
wants a page full ad taking up their screen when they are reading news or browsing other websites. Another thing that advertisers have to keep in mind is designing the advertisement correctly.
is a notable culprit for not designing
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correctly.
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years ago where Kendall Jenner, a famous celebrity, handed a white police officer a can of
. The ad
involved imagery of the Black Lives Matter movement where they were protesting police brutality. Wanting to promote a message of peace and unity,
faced a huge backlash as they were called out for trivialising the movement. More recently,
suffered when Cristiano Ronaldo, the famous footballer, moved two bottles of
away from the camera from their well-placed product placement spot during a press conference in the Euro 2020 tournament. Ronaldo moved the bottles as he did not want to promote
to his fans, a product that he himself does not consume.
action caused
to lose approximately $4B USD in the stock market.
, when advertising is not done correctly, it has a negative effect on its success.
All in all, I still believe that advertising is extremely successful in persuading us to buy things. When it is done correctly, like the company Apple
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has branded themselves and their products as meant for creatives and game changers, it has a lot of power.
, many companies like Google and
(the newspaper) sustain their search engine and newspaper respectively via
. These instances give
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success in influencing our purchasing decisions. For if they were not powerful, they would not be kept in use even
.