Advertisements are communicative devices whose primary purpose is to provide information and targeted customers so that they will ultimately purchase their product. Ads, however, also teach society to value what they do not need, by manipulating the buyer’s mind with convincing evidence that their longings for certain experiences will be fulfilled only with the purchase of a particular product. For instance, an advertisement from SuperBike, a motorcycle magazine, attempts to sell the unique AquaTrax produced by Honda by appealing more to the “ I am me” buyers through the two specific selling-strategies of power and adventure.
The AquaTrax
Jan
20
2012