Types Of Advertising

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Types of Advertising In general, there are seven different types of advertising recognized by business ethicists. The first is pure informational advertising. Such advertising merely conveys straightforward information about the product that it is being used to promote. For example, if the product in question is a certain type of car, such advertising will present factual information about the car in question, such as its top speed, its costs, and its safety rating. The second type of advertising is deceptive advertising. Such advertising presents information about the product that it is promoting as though it were true information, when, in fact, the advertiser believes the information to be false. For example, were a certain brand of cigarettes to be advertised as being good for its smokers’ health when the advertiser believed that smoking it was in fact harmful, such advertising would be deceptive advertising. The third type of advertising that is possible is that termed “puffery.” Such advertising consists of hyperbolic promotional claims about the product advertised. For example, a hamburger chain might indicate in its advertisements that its staff are so customer-friendly that even its CEO cooks hamburgers there and interacts with the consumers, or the advertiser of a certain brand of soda might indicate through its promotional material that its soda is so tasty that even polar bears enjoy it. The fourth type of advertising is bombardment, or name recognition advertising. Here, advertisers attempt to expose as many consumers as possible to their advertisements for a particular product for as long as possible. The aim of such advertising is to establish in consumers’ minds that if they require a certain product, then they should buy the advertised brand of that product. This aim is achieved through advertising bombardment by establishing in
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