Arguments for and Against Advertising Advantages

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Arguments for and against advertising Advantages * Advertising provides information to consumer who may not otherwise discover the product. * It increases sales, which leads to higher production and possibly more jobs. * Competition is encouraged through advertising, which should again result in lower prices. * T.V and newspapers are subsidised through their advertising revenue. * Employment is created in the advertising industry. Disadvantages * Higher prices can be the result if advertising is unsuccessful because increased sales revenue does not cover advertising casts. * It can lead to exploitation. Advertising can tempt people to buy what they do not need or cannot afford, or encourage them to buy products that may be harmful. (E.G Alcohol), but which have a tempting, advertising created image and appeal it. Can also encourage people to want more materials possessions, and its appeal may be an emotional one, rather than a rational one. The different methods of advertising * Informative advertising. * Persuasive advertising. Informative advertising is designed to increase consumer awareness of a product. Examples include the classified ads in the local newspaper, new share offers, grants available to firms and entries in the yellow papers. It is usually argued that this type of advertising helps consumer to make a rational choice as to what to buy. Persuasive advertising tries to convince consumers to purchase a product, often by stressing it the more desirable than any others do. It is argued that this type of advertising distorts consumer buying, pushing them to buy, in reality almost all advertising is persuasive to some extent. Very few major campaigns aim to be entirely informative. There are many different mediums that advertising can come from. These are- Television, National newspaper, Regional newspaper, Magazines, cinema, Radio, Posters, Internet. Here

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