Influence of Television Advertisement on the Buying Habits of Consumers

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One function of the mass media which is becoming increasingly important in the modern world is the economic functions of advertising. The mass media perform this function for the people by bringing together buyers and sellers through advertisements. Again, the world is fast becoming a common market place of ideas. Many multinational companies have come to realize that people have the same basic needs and desires. Consequently, they have heeded to calls for global marketing and can promote their goods and services using advertisements. An advertisement is defined by the Advertising Practitioners Council of Nigeria(APCON) as a ‘communication in the media paid for by an identifiable sponsor and directed at a target audience with the aim of transferring information about a product, service, idea or cause.’ According to Benson Eluwa (2005), ‘Advertising is a form of non-personal method of communicating information which is usually paid for by a sponsor through various media’. These definitions can tell one that advertising is a persuasive communication, because it tries to persuade the reader, viewers or listeners to take to the sponsor’s point of view and also take some appropriate actions towards an object of advertisement. In an industrial and free competitive market economy, where the interplay of economic variables dictates the market, the problem of survival of business becomes a very nightmarish one for producers and manufacturers. The singular desire of manufacturers become how to create awareness and market for their goods. Advertising is then one strategy that fulfils the desire completely. The desire to be buoyant in business and to increase profit has given advertisement an irrevocable reputation. Advertising is not undertaken by management just for fun or to keep products or services. It is principally involved in persuasion or advocacy even apparently

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