Advertising – Its Evolution, Significance & Effect

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Advertising – Its Evolution, Significance & Effects Advertising is the commercial promotion of goods, services, companies and ideas, usually performed by an identified sponsor, and performed through a variety of media. Marketers see advertising as part of an overall promotional strategy. Other components of the promotional mix include publicity, public relations, personal selling, and sales promotion. And advertisements are the representatives of their brand and producers which work for promotion of the product just like a salesman.

As we see the ads, we may also be able to “see through” them to broader social and cultural realities. We can note three contexts for these documents. First of all, they are selling tools and reflect the business needs of the corporations that pay for them. Posing the questions about purposes and methods will give us insights into the role of advertising in business. Second, advertisements are cultural indicators, though distorted ones. Finally, bear in mind that ads emerge from a professional culture of the advertising industry and suggest the aspirations and anxieties of the men who create them.

Advertisements are all around us today and have been for a long time. In this project report I am giving an overview of advertisements as historical sources and a brief history of advertising, questions to ask when interpreting ads as historical evidence, what the language of advertisements contain, how they work and what they work and also giving the effects of advertisements on the mind of people and also the society. Here I am giving a brief description of the impact of advertisements, changing ways of it and also informing that how they are the representatives of an era and what can be the future of advertisements in coming years. On basis of all these facts I am going to build a conclusion and also framing my opinion. 

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