This essay is a critical analysis which supports the thesis that advertising requires creativity and should be regarded as an entertainment and art form. An in-depth look will be given into the various different persuasive and promotional functions of advertising, different perspectives of leading figures in the advertising industry, changing patterns in consumer behavior, the impact of digital technologies on media consumptions, advertising saturation and creativity as a gendered construct.
In today’s world, advertising and creativity essentially go hand in hand. Without creativity, advertisements lack that spark or x factor as some may say. Creativity is also seen as being increasingly important in a variety of other professions. Architecture
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As explained above, since creativity requires originality and effectiveness, an example for a creative advertisement would be the Coca Cola friendship machine advertisement. As seen in the video by Creative Guerrilla Marketing, (2011) it is an advertisement about the drink but with a twist; a regular advertisement would show a person inserting coins inside the vending machine and collecting his/her drink. But in this particular advertisement, the vending machine is a tall one and the coin slot is located right at the top which would make it quite difficult for a person with average height to obtain their cola. They brought in some creativity into this advertisement by showing friends lifting their other friends on their shoulders to insert the coins into the coin slot of the vending machine which in turn, brought all the friends a lot closer. This innovative idea garnered a lot of attention and eight hundred bottles of coca cola were purchased in a short span of only nine hours which is 1075% more cokes than those purchased via a regular vending machine. This example alone just proves how important and effective creativity is in
Do you ever watch the Super Bowl for its commercials? Have you ever bought a more expensive product because you had seen its advertisement? If the answer is yes, then you might have been a victim of today’s marketers. Jean Kilbourne, the author of “Killing us Softly” stated in one of her lectures, “The influence of advertising is quick, cumulative and for the most part, subconscious, ads sell more products.” “Advertising has become much more widespread, powerful, and sophisticated.” According to Jean Kilbourne, “babies at six months can recognize corporate logos, and that is the age at which marketers are now starting to target our children.” Jean Kilbourne is a woman who grew up in the 1950s and worked in the media field in the 1960s. This paper will explain the methods used by marketers in today’s advertising. An advertisement contains one or more elements of aesthetics, humor, and sexual nature.
In the short article by Steve Craig, Men’s Men and Women’s Womens, the author gives an important special to how television commercials portray gender to different audiences. He describes how an advertisers creates their attractive advertisement to appeal either male or females consumers.An advertisement that targets a specific gender to give interest to the gender to consume their product. Secondly, specific advertisement are played at select times to be seen by a specific set of people. But most importantly television programming is gendered by creating advertisements with considering their target audience needs and to give pleasure to their fantasies. I agree with this type of method to attract society to make money.
Newspapers, Magazines, Television, Online… advertising is everywhere. Within the myriad of advertisements displayed in front of viewers every day, there are appeals. Society neglects and overlooks these marketing strategies that toy with their minds, resulting in skyrocketing purchases after the release of an advertisement. In “Advertising’s Fifteen Basic Appeals,” Jib Fowles identifies the appeals he believes are implemented in advertisements. These appeals include sexual innuendos, powerful images, or comforting displays which draw the audience into the desired product. After analyzing the ads within the Vogue January 2018 edition, an extremely popular fashion and lifestyle magazine, the demographics can be determined as a market with expensive taste. The graphics are extremely feminine and contain Fowles’s previously mentioned appeals, like the “need for prominence.” Although not all of the fifteen appeals apply to these advertisements, Fowles’s list is still valid and does not need revisions as the readership of Vogue magazine is just a small sample of the population. Through the appeals of each advertisement, this clear readership is developed, rather than using all of the Fowles’s appeals and not addressing the correct audience.
For example a good commercial that uses creativity is the Kars for kids commercial. This commercial was utilized by a very creative person who knew that this song would get stuck in people's heads. You would also need to be ideal in knowing not to make your product sound to over the top while still making it sound amazing and like something that everyone will need/want.
Kilbourne demonstrates three major main criticisms of advertising. First, advertising objectifies people and objects for the purpose of sales. This critique promotes products as more important than people and exploits human deeds and desires. Kilbourne offers ample evidence to support her first criticism of advertising. For example, Kilbourne examines advertisement such as the Thule car-rack - which humorously places more value on sports equipment been a child's life - is evidence of the trend that advertising is “objectif[ing] people…trivializ[ing and exploiting] our most heartfelt moments and relationships. Every emotion [,person, animal, and natural phenomenon] is used to sell us something” (Kilbourne, 2006, 369). Second - according to Kilbourne - advertising promotes and perpetuates the unnatural passion for products rather than personal relationship. “Advertising corrupts relationships and then offers us products, both as solace and as substitutes for the intimate human connection we all long for and need” (Kilbourne, 2006, 370). Within this concept, advertising also commits ‘cultural rape’ by manipulating sacred symbols for their utilization as emotional leverage in advertising. Third, advertisements damage the personality and structure of culture. For example the Giwch’in tribe’s traditional culture was almost erased by the introduction of advertising through television. “As multinational chains replace local character, we end up in a world in which everyone is Gapped and Starbucked…[Thus] rampant commercialism undermines our physical and psychological health, our environments and our civic life, and creates a toxic society” (Kilbourne, 2006, 371), which robs individuals of cultural and personal diversity. Based on the evidence presented by Kilbourne, I strongly agree with all three of these
Professor Jeff Richards once said “Creative without strategy is called art, but creative with strategy is called advertising.” This quote is basically stating that advertisements use a lot of techniques and strategies to convince and persuade audience. Particularly advertisements use psychological feelings to persuade you positively or negatively towards a product. Advertising affects youth’s psychology by triggering feelings that make you want to buy their product.
It is nice to think of creativity as a skill I never thought of it that way. Clients often have trouble with change especially if the business has a long history in the area. I see it more often in small areas. In Myrtle Beach most locally produced commercials were flashy, corny, catchy, and tried to get a laugh out of the viewer.
Art and Design are important because they both make the world more sensible and a better place, they also bring a sense of enjoyment and make it easier to understand everything around us even more. Here we will discuss the role played by Art and Design in modern advertising.
Creativity is an abstract concept that is crucial as part of our advancements of mankind whether that be in the scientific fields with new inventions and research or in the artistic fields with new paintings and amazing portraits, but most people do not understand that the gift of creativity can be a crucial source of innovative ideas. As a result of the need of creativity, schools must include creativity as part of the daily curriculum that students learn. Students already spent seven hours a day at school, exposing them to a class that helps them efficiently and correctly use creativity would be beneficial to not only students but to all members of society. Places of education such as high schools must include classes in creativity in order to create
There is a mutually enriching relationship between art and advertising; they aid each other in the process of achieving its goals. Artists have incorporated tactics from advertising and have pushed boundaries. Advertisers have been inspired by art, particularly by fine art from the renaissance period with the advantage of saving the hassle of dealing with copy right constrains.
The term creativity is used for the purpose of describing the ability that is concerned with the process of creating something new or valuable. This ability allows a person to surpass the rules, practices, methods, forms or similar kind of activities that the traditional society may be performing at that time. Creativity is one of the most important things that have allowed the people of the society to move forward and urge for development. All the development that has been made in various aspects of human life can be directly connected with the creativity. All the industry leaders of the world have secured this place because of the level of creativity and innovation that they showed. They used this creativity for creating something new that has allowed them to develop completely new methods for this purpose.
This research is a quantitative, cross-sectional, exploratory and descriptive content analysis of selected advertisements from two different magazines published in August 2012 using the nine different creative concepts as main emphasis.
Advertising is one of the channels of social communication. The system of social communication provides not only the preservation and rebroadcast achievements of culture and cultural norms and everyday practices, but it is also a crucial part of the process of inculturation personality which is essential to the processes of social development as a whole. An important event in the evolution of modern mass culture was the so-called “visual turn” resulting from the multimedia revolution of XX-XXI centuries.This revolution led to the dominance of visual cultural forms, including outdoor advertising as a mass phenomenon culture.
The aim of this literary review is to look over the knowledge and ideas that have been established on the topic of what makes advertising effective, and to discuss their strengths and weaknesses, using a critical approach of it.
I have been always had a highly interest in advertising, graphics design and fine art everything, and I have considered which one is more powerful. Since college time, I finally have fallen in love with advertising, and the reason is that it is powerful than other design fields that means like a leader, such as leads you go to somewhere, do something, or buy something. From my perspective, advertising is a kind of medium between the creator and audience, and it is creative and it should be based on the art. Advertisements with a high level of artistic creativity contain aesthetically appealing literal, sound or visual elements. Creative activities have always drawn my attention, from a young age I would like to draw, cut, or paint. I am still practicing these skills. When I had these basic skills, I have understood what’s design. As a long time ago, I perceived the creative activity is the most important core in the advertising field that seems not only tell you simply how good the product is or just a blatant sales pitch, instead, it almost looks like a piece of art. In the future, I want to be an advertising designer who has a high level creativity, and I want to try to add art’s feeling into the advertising field.