Everywhere we go advertisement controls most of all goods and services bought within the United States. Whether it’s driving a car to the airport, seeing a movie or simply turning on the television advertisement is unavoidable.
Advertisement is becoming a big issue with the younger population today. Almost all cloth advertisement promotes young sex with their product. All of the most popular cloth lines do it, including American eagle, Abercrombie, Hollister and that’s just three. If you see their poster advertisement it is a guy without his shirt on and a young girl drooling over him. Most cigarette ads try and make their product colorful and cool which obviously isn’t for adults but for kids that don’t smoke yet. I do not know is cigarette ads are still legal but in old magazines the ads clearly target the younger population.
It’s not just with the younger population but also the middle aged population too. That male enhancement commercial is honestly is the biggest joke I have seen, how insecure do you have to be? But with clever advertising they make the commercial with a bunch of couples together and everyone in the commercial besides ‘Bob’ and his wife aren’t cool and their wife’s are depressed, but Bob and his wife are the happiest people in the world because of enzyte, the natural male enhancement pill. And they go further on in the commercial to limit one per household making it seem everyone is buying them and they are limited. Just another clever play on getting guys to buy this product.
It’s not all the advertising companies fault, it is us. We see that commercial and we think we need whatever they are selling and the ad companies know this so they come up with ways to trick the viewer on thinking they need it.
Don’t get me wrong I am all for advertising, life alert and commercials that that promote products or services that can actually help someone are great and if all advertisements would be completely honest about what they are selling, today’s society would be a little better.
Jon Missant
So, should we decide that some things are OK to promote and some things aren’t? And, yes, cigarette ads are still legal in magazines.
Who gets to make the end all decision on what ads are okay? Life alert is trying to scare some senior citizens into buying thier product by showing another old person who has fallen and cannot get up. Almost all advertisements are researched and placed in a way to target and audiance and get inside thier heads. Everything from the color of a car in a commercial to the hair color of the driver is reseached, all to attract certain audiances. Almost all companies are guilty, even the “honest” ones.
-N. Krol