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Why Do We Buy: an Analysis of Advertising in Cosmopolitan
Summary: The executives in charge of an ad may spend thousands of dollars and months of planning on one little page in a magazine. They use countless means to catch the consumer's eye, including sexuality, celebrity appeal, fantasy, comedy, and plain old creativity, all to make you buy their product. We had to take two ads out of the same magazine and describe them and how they seduce consumers
Magazines. Television. Radio. Billboards. Advertisements surround us in our everyday lives; there is almost nowhere you can venture without their presence. As noted author on advertising psychology James Randolph Adams once remarked, "Advertising is the principle reason why the business man has come to inherit the earth" (Richards 1). This is strikingly true, if you were to say "the golden arches," how many people would know what you were talking about? Almost everyone, that is how much advertising has affected our lives. How do these promotions become so integrated in our society? By the way it is advertised. The executives in charge of an ad may spend thousands of dollars and months of planning on one little page in a magazine. They use countless means to catch the consumer's eye, including sexuality, celebrity appeal, fantasy, comedy, and plain old creativity, all to make you buy their product. Though both...
This section contains 1,687 words (approx. 6 pages at 300 words per page) |