Analysis Of Advertisements R Us By Melissa Rubin

Commercials airing on the television or radio, the billboards on the side of the freeways trying to grab your attention to buy their product, even while scrolling through various social media platforms, we go through our day to day lives with advertisements all around us. In Jack Solomon’s essay, Masters of Desire: The Culture of American Advertising, he states that the main purpose of all these advertisements is to show us our unhappiness within the American dream. He goes on to describe the differences in these advertisements which are known as the populist ads and the elite ads. Solomon's description of the contradiction between populism and elitism very much affects the way advertising and media is portrayed in American society.

During the era after World War 2 ended and before the Cold War began, advertising started to become increasingly popular. Companies would use ads to persuade the consumer into buying various goods or services that were being advertised. These propaganda agencies used a “you should buy it to fix your problem” mentality. The ads in today’s society target certain age groups with a variety of aspects that might interest them into buying a product because they, the consumer, want to fit in and be a part of something.

I will begin with the commentary “Advertisements R Us”, by Melissa Rubin. I agree, somewhat, that advertising is a way to hook the consumers. Of course, that is how they expect to sell their product. When a company wants to market their product, they will advertise it to appeal to a variety of consumers. They will try to convince the consumers that they must have the product they are marketing.

Advertising in the media has been a dominant feature in American culture since the early 20th century, connecting products and lifestyles as well as services and states of mind to tell society that happiness and satisfaction can be purchased. It promotes a worldview that stresses the individual and private life while being mainly about selling, telling us that the market relations of buying and selling are the appropriate forms of social relation, overall promoting a culture of consumption. The belief system of capitalism is most associated with advertising because of their values of freedom and independence. Advertising relates to ideologies of the media concerning the worldview of the powerful and contradictions that dispute the worldview. Most ads feature dominant ideology, displaying glamor and power while normalizing the upper and middle class to make the people subconsciously or consciously feel the need to buy things. Normalization also applies to advertising as many ads continuously depicts a similar message to emphasize what society should think is 'normal.' Advertising however, likes to use humor and irony to depict the same massages of freedom while contradicting what society holds as 'normal.' Southern Comfort's ad campaign and slogan 'Whatever's Comfortable' features an ad containing a heavy set man in a speedo cruising down the beach. This ad is relevant to individuality and private life and is depicted ironically through the perspective of the middle class

There are a lot different types of sitcoms, and other types of advertising out there in this day in age. The one ad that fell upon my eyes, and pulled me enough its way to persuade me to write a paper on is a Tommy Hilfiger Advertisement. This advertisement is a true way to show how much advertisement has become demoralizing, and appealing to the eye. “They sell values, images, and concepts of success and worth, love, and sexuality, popularity and normalcy”. (Kilbourne, 178)

Advertisements are part and parcel of our lives. Perhaps, they are one of the most decisive and, at the same time, imperceptible factors moulding and channelling our “purchasing habits,” so to speak. On the face of it, advertisements promote products and services; they create demand by dint of inducing and increasing consumption. Yet, the ways in which they convey their messages have a profound effect on all aspects of our lives: our happiness, our culture, family and interpersonal relations, business, stereotypes, wealth and status, individuality, and so forth. According to Leiss et al. (1990: 1), advertising is ‘a “privileged form of discourse”’, in that it can attract our attention,

Consumer Culture is at the root of all social, political and economic development of western cultures for the past three hundred years. Advertisements become a key role in creating ideological messages and meanings. In a consumer culture and capitalist economy, advertisement becomes a tool used by corporations to influence the minds of the buyer. When a company produces an ad or commercial, their main objective is to get the viewers’ attention in order to sell the product. Many different methods are used to lure an audience in; tactics may include print or commercial ads, to either inform or to target individuals into consuming goods. There have been constant debates surrounding females in advertisements and the ways in which women are defined through their constructed identities. Society plays a heavy hand in constructing individuals gender roles, and in turn many of our identities. Women during the 1950s and onwards have been a byproduct in advertising campaigns, their roles were limited and became repetitive overtime.

People have responded well for its schemes very much. It created good brand image on the mind of the new users.

As of today’s society, popular culture is growing, although, in order for our community to be any well-liked culture, advertising and marketing have to take part. When reading What We Are to Advertisers by James Twitchell and Men’s Men and Women’s Women by Steve Craig, people will realize that the main audience for advertising and marketing is what causes the “popular” of the culture to develop. In What We Are to Advertisers, the article examines that advertising is to not only label a product but to also label the consumer as they circulate all over this “pyramid” of social groups. For Men’s Men and Women’s Women by Steve Craig, his point of view is not about society purchasers as an entity, but about the main audience and how

As of today’s society, popular culture is growing, although, in order for our community to be any well-liked culture, advertising and marketing have to take part. When reading What We Are to Advertisers by James Twitchell and Men’s Men and Women’s Women by Steve Craig, people will realize that the main audience for advertising and marketing is what causes the “popular” of the culture to develop. In What We Are to Advertisers, the article examines that advertising is to not only label a product but to also label the consumer as they circulate all over this “pyramid” of social groups. For Men’s Men and Women’s Women by Steve Craig, his point of view is not about society purchasers as an entity, but about the main audience and how

We are constantly being bombarded with media messages about what to buy, what to think, the new trends and latest style. However, these advertisements not only sell us products but they also sell us ideas. These ideas influence how we think about the world, and how we construct decisions. Everyday advertisers will make contemplative decisions on what visuals, texts and sounds best represent a product. Most advertisements are designed to reach a specific audience- defined by age, gender, class, interests and other factors. By deconstructing a media message, it becomes more apparent as to who created the message and who is intended to receive it. Through deconstruction a media message can be exposed; showing the values and biases of the

In 2013, UN Women launched an ad campaign that revealed the prevalent and rampant sexism and discrimination against women worldwide. Memac Ogilvy and Mather Dubai, the creators of the advertisement, placed authentic Google search text boxes over the mouth of the woman pictured, as if to silence her voice. By using a Muslim woman in a hijab, real searches via Google, and highlighting the true, subconscious feelings and attitude of the audience, the advertisement attempts to expose the negative biases towards women, ranging from stereotypes to blatant denial of their rights.

The speech titled "Advertising's Overdue Revolution" is a very interesting read. I will attempt to break the speech down into a number of main themes discussed by the author. I will then examine each of these themes and decide whether or not I agree with the points presented. On the issues that I have a difference of opinion, I will examine why, and try to support my argument with relevant facts.

During the 1950s, cigarette companies around the nation clawed at consumers to buy their product through advertising. This could be from ads in the newspapers, to commercials between your favorite television programs. Cigarettes were the thing to do during this time period, and were sometimes considered “healthy”. Advertisements for them showed up just as often, if not more, than we see advertisements for prescription drugs today. The two ads I chose to analyze target a wide variety of people and choose interesting strategies to convince the consumer to pick up a pack of their product on their next trip to the grocery.

Advertisements are ubiquitous in our current society. From billboards near highways to commercials on TVs, they vary in many different ways. Some of them are simple and easy to understand, while others try to convey a plethora of information in the shortest amount of time possible. Despite their variations in forms and style, all advertisements are crafted with a common goal: to convince the audience of something. Many people believe that to convince someone of something, it requires factual evidence that logically leads them to a particular conclusion. In fact, in language, to prove something is true, sometimes it only requires the audience to believe in the speaker’s utterances. As a form of communication, advertisements often use this strategy to accomplish their goals. In a recent political commercial regarding gun rights, it attempts to convince the audience implicitly to not vote for Hillary Clinton in the Presidential Election in 2016, which entails the audience should vote for the alternative candidate, Donald Trump. Instead of providing factual evidence, the commercial manipulates both communicative and natural meaning of sentences to establish credibility and induce certain beliefs that force the audience to conclude not voting for Hillary Clinton and voting for Donald Trump.