Community Discussion (Week 4) - Advertising

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WEEK 4 - ADVERTISING

Here's a very interesting topic that I think you guys will enjoy.

Discuss Advertisements
How do advertisements & the media affect everyday life?
Do you find advertisements to be intrusive? Consider all of the adds you find in public places such as hospitals and even public schools.
What do you think is the most affective form of advertisements? Do magazines and newspapers reach out to more people than radio or tv? And what about the internet?
Should there be more censorship placed on advertisements? (Think beer or cigarrette brands, etc)
Do you think false advertising exists? If so, to what extent?
Do you think the advertising market as a whole (including graphic artists, business communications, webmakers, large companies) is growing or shrinking?

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I recommend everyone watch the movie "The Greatest Movie Ever Sold" The Spurlock film provides a great view of the inner workings of advertising and the commercial market.
 
My phone plays advertisements. About two times a day, when I wake it up. It just. Plays. An ad. For like 5 seconds.

And I just.

What.

Why.
 
How do advertisements & the media affect everyday life? : Advertisements are almost all false, that's why any smart person should know that pretty much everything is fake. All those creams and makeup and whatever does not really work in the least. All they do is promote.

Do you find advertisements to be intrusive? Consider all of the adds you find in public places such as hospitals and even public schools. : My school is homophobic, and they typically advertise fundraisers and stuff like that. I haven't been in a Hospital since I went with my mother a long time back ( tragic event ), but typically public places advertise they're own benefits.

What do you think is the most affective form of advertisements? Do magazines and newspapers reach out to more people than radio or tv? And what about the internet? : Nobody likes Internet ads, I think overall the radio is the most effective, maybe just because I listen to the radio a lot.

Should there be more censorship placed on advertisements? (Think beer or cigarrette brands, etc) : No. Beer especially not, Cigarettes maybe, just because those can cause more permanent damage ( despite my uncle being virtually brain dead from alchohal ).

Do you think false advertising exists? If so, to what extent? : Of course it does. All creams are fake. Every single Police scam over the phone is fake too.

Do you think the advertising market as a whole (including graphic artists, business communications, webmakers, large companies) is growing or shrinking? : Growing as new technology does.
 
6-Dimension said:
My phone plays advertisements. About two times a day, when I wake it up. It just. Plays. An ad. For like 5 seconds.

And I just.

What.

Why.
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6-D and I have the same phone, and I can't even believe that that's a feature. And the worst part is, it just shows up, even if you haven't tried using any apps or anything.
Advertisement is apparently taking up everything now, and I used to just think that was hippies being terrible.
 
That's another thing to think about:

Ads on phone apps and YouTube videos and stuff.
 
Advertising is all about throwing your name around. Forget the convienence of people. You want money? You let people put ads on your stuff. You want to get known? Force your ads on others. The more intrusive, the more it gets imprinted on your target group. It's a simple corporate trick. You mad over this stuff? I suggest you get an adblocker.
 
I've been adblocking since, well, I had my computer. If I want to support something, I'll support it in my own way, like donating to webcomics and kickstarters and such. Many of the people I know do as well. Not to say this is how everyone is, quite far from it, but I do think it's interesting in its own way.

As far as elsewhere, I guess I just ignore them subconsciously, because I can't think of too many places where I see/hear them anymore. Movie theatres, I guess. I don't watch a lot of TV and when I do it's usually recorded, so we fast-forward through commercials. I don't listen to radio except on my 2 minute drive to work. I have a "special features" Kindle version, but I never have it on wi-fi unless I'm buying a new book, so if it goes into energy save mode, I only see the "get on your wi-fi to see more ads" page.

I'll agree that advertising in general is probably going up, since it's so easy and cheap to do online ads. Though, I will say, as someone who used to work in printing, that the physical medium side of advertisement is definitely decreasing, especially for small- to medium-sized businesses (at least in the US). Printed advertisements statistically have an incredibly low rate of return, so in a slow economy, it's simply not feasible for many of those business to keep running ads.
 
TV advertisements work really great, especially on widely watched channels, like CN, CNN, Nickolodeon, Disney, NBC, CBS, and MTV. Since the majority of the world owns TVs and some sort of network (TimeWarner, Direct TV, etc.), it's a great way to advertise many things.

I believe radio ads are a close second because, again, lots and lots of people own radios, whether it be a stand-alone radio or part of their automobile or even on their phone, and listen to them nearly every day. The types of ads would be different, focusing on audio effects, not visual, but usually have the same effect of advertising what they want to be sold.
 
PDC said:
How do advertisements & the media affect everyday life? : Advertisements are almost all false, that's why any smart person should know that pretty much everything is fake. All those creams and makeup and whatever does not really work in the least. All they do is promote.
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I would not say they are all false per se. Inaccurate or misleading as well as overly euphemistic would be better suiting descriptions.

6-Dimension said:
whenever i see someone with chrome but not adblock i'm sorta just like

what's the point
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Compare the statistics of Chrome and AdBlock downloads. I am pretty sure there are more downloads of the former that the latter. Therefore, your described reaction is just overly dramatic.
 
Renoir said:
Compare the statistics of Chrome and AdBlock downloads. I am pretty sure there are more downloads of the former that the latter. Therefore, your described reaction is just overly disappointing.
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what

are you

do you speak english

are you a wizard

that doesn't even make any sense at all lol

Of course there are more downloads of Chrome than Adblock. Because not everybody who has Chrome has Adblock. My point is that if you have Chrome you should have Adblock because the presence of Adblock is one of the features of Chrome, and a major argument as to using Chrome. Why would you have Chrome if you don't use Adblock. That is what I was saying.
 
There's a Community Discussion!?! Well let's give this a try then.


safariblade said:
Community Discussion
WEEK 4 - ADVERTISING

Here's a very interesting topic that I think you guys will enjoy.

Discuss Advertisements
How do advertisements & the media affect everyday life?

Advertisments are every where you look there are billboards
TV's and tons of other electrical devices (Radio,Computer,Phones)
Sure there are ways to encounter less of them but they'll must likely you'll Still see a bunch of them anyway.


Do you find advertisements to be intrusive? Consider all of the adds you find in public places such as hospitals and even public schools.

Some advertisements can be intrusive especially
When they start popping up in places you don't expect
(YouTube) and While some advertisements can be intrusive
and delay you from doing important things.I actually enjoy
seeing a new product advertisement every now and then.


What do you think is the most affective form of advertisements?

Tv and Radio. All most everyone has a one or the other. If they
Watch live TV I can almost guarantee they have seen/heard one.

Do magazines and newspapers reach out to more people than radio or tv? And what about the internet?

I think magazines and newspapers offer you the option of if you want to read them.I can guarantee
you that because of this some people just choose to make them waste their money skip over them.This obviously means they will have less people see their ads and that's not what the company wants so radio and TV would be more effective because usually you can't just skip over them.


Should there be more censorship placed on advertisements? (Think beer or cigarrette brands, etc)

I think it's fine just make sure no Cigarette or beer commercials end up on the same station as Seasame Street.

Do you think false advertising exists? If so, to what extent?

False advertising defentitly exists. You really can't trust anything they say. Just make sure you can return anything you buy.


Do you think the advertising market as a whole (including graphic artists, business communications, webmakers, large companies) is growing or shrinking?

I think they're growing and probably will keep growing as new products keep coming out.
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Advertisments are a nessacary evil and they're going anywhere anytime soon. Unless Of course the mayans were right and we all get destroyed at the end of the year.
 
Renoir said:
I would not say they are all false per se. Inaccurate or misleading as well as overly euphemistic would be better suiting descriptions.
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Well, I see you're "overly euphemistic" about advertising. Being inaccurate is to be wrong (false), and misleading (which includes using euphemistic language) is not true to begin with; to be misleading is to present a false interpretation of the facts.
 
Artemis said:
If I want to support something, I'll support it in my own way, like donating to webcomics and kickstarters and such.
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Couldn't of said it better.
It annoys me when websites say something like

"Disable Adblocker if you support this site."

I'm not supporting the site by seeing a gif telling me to shoot iPhones.

I don't mind advertisements on TV, as I could just as easily get a drink or do something else. It's a break, it's useful. But when something pops up in front of me when I am trying to read something or watch a video and there is some stupid smiley pack download then I just think what's the point? It's like an advertisement taking up four, fifths of the screen while a program is on. One of the many reasons I love Skype and not MSN.

I also never think advertising actually works. Everyone I know actively searches for something if they are in need of it, rather than waiting for an ad to come along to tell them to buy something they don't need. The only form of advertisement that I think may work is something like...advertising a game on a video game website. Mostly, advertisements are just out of place. So putting a relevant ad in the right place might entice someone to check it out.

However, if something is marketed correctly. You can almost guarantee it to sell well.
 
How do advertisements & the media affect everyday life?
All advertisements do is make people want want want. They're not interesting one bit, and a lot of today's problems can be blamed on them.

Do you find advertisements to be intrusive? Consider all of the adds you find in public places such as hospitals and even public schools.
Yea. We'll often times devote our time/money to things, only to get advertisements in return. I can understand advertisements in newspapers/magazines because they have their own add sections/pages. Road signs and other adds that don't get in our way also aren't an issue. However, adds on online video streaming websites, television, and email are intrusive since we can't exactly avoid them.

What do you think is the most affective form of advertisements? Do magazines and newspapers reach out to more people than radio or tv? And what about the internet?
Television is the most effective form of advertising. Simply because people watch lots of television and it seems there's an advertisement break every 5 minutes.

Should there be more censorship placed on advertisements? (Think beer or cigarrette brands, etc)
If censorship means removing them altogether, then yea, I'm for it.:p

Do you think false advertising exists? If so, to what extent?
Yes, it does. I remember being a curious 5 year old on the internet, and doing online surveys for free $500 gift cards and stuff. Boy, did I get a lot of phone calls from places like Weight Watchers, Target, etc. They all told me to not click on online advertising. Lesson learned lol

Do you think the advertising market as a whole (including graphic artists, business communications, webmakers, large companies) is growing or shrinking?
Growing. I have seen more advertising these past few years then ever before. This can be blamed on two things: more electronic devices for them to advertise on and greed.
 
^The economy would crash and burn without advertising. Censorship is one of the worst things to do. (Nor would it ever be done)

Other than your normal annoyances (mainly for those who don't use adblock) on the internet, advertising has not become significantly intrusive. Until it becomes significantly intrusive, it is just a product of our capitalistic society.
 
Nigel said:
Already happened.
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There are different levels of crashing. Removing the concept of advertising to today's global economy would cause it to further plummet by massive levels.
 
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