Ethics in Advertising

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“The impact of unethical campaigns on consumer behavior" Advertising has a great influence on the way people understand themselves and the world around them as well as all the fundamental values and behavior (Foley 1999, p. 220), thus advertising campaigns are considered to be an effective tool, aimed at a particular target market or audience for the purpose of increasing sales or raising awareness of a product or service (http://www.qfinance.com/dictionary/advertising-campaign). Companies use the different techniques to sell their product to consumers and, unfortunately, sometimes these techniques turn out to be at odds with the ethics. The purpose of the companies making ads is to attract more consumers to the product, the more unusual and distinctive the advertisements are the more clients you have, but sometimes such ads lead us to face one of the most acute problems - unethical campaigns. The topic of unethical campaigns is tricky, cause in spite of the work of governmental regulations and legislation, as well as advertising self-regulatory organizations which control advertisements to be in line with the set rules, sometimes it’s not easy to differentiate between ethical and unethical advertising, as it is difficult to draw the line between the two (p.383 Advertising Management By C.L. Tyagi, Arun Kumar) and sometimes it happens so that ethical issue understanding is different for different people, nations, thus it makes it possible for unethical campaigns to overwhelm the market and influence the customers of all age groups. However, the most vulnerable group at which advertisers target are children and teenagers, cause they are more susceptible and among the most sophisticated watchers of advertisings, but it doesn't mean that advertisers neglect other watchers. In order to make the listeners more familiar with the notion of unethical campaigns, we have

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