Advertising Theory

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Advertising Theory
The Tools of Persuasion

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Information (Marketing)

 product features (did you know?) improving brand recognition (now you know.)



Persuasion (Advertising)
  buy it! (don’t you know that you need it?) forming relationships (you know you love it!)

The Goals of Advertising

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Source

Message

Medium

Receiver

Feedback

The Elements of Communication

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Smart mediums allow contemporaneous input from senders and receivers.



Receivers may:
◦ select one message over another ◦ skip, replay, store a message



Senders may:
◦ identify receivers and their behavior ◦ focus or alter message

Interactive Communication Model

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“…the World Wide Web represents an interactive media with a greater richness of information as opposed to what can be found in traditional media (Evans & Wurster, 1997). Researchers have found that consumers are more active on the Internet and the World Wide Web than is the case with other media channels (Hoffman and Novak, 1996). During a Web session, the Web user is active and interacting with the material presented on the Website, a behavior that may impact advertising on the Web.”

The Internet

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+ + =

increased information flow increased ad intensity increased consumer awareness no more “sleeper effect.”

The sleeper effect identified by psychologist Carl Hovland refers to the "hidden" effect of a propaganda message even when it comes from a discredited source.

• Knowledge Bias: the presumption that a speaker has a biased view on an issue • Reporting Bias: the perception that the source has opted not to report certain facts How to Build Credibility?

A Compromised Source

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The first step in ad development is identifying, the target audience. An old rule of rhetoric dictates that you can’t begin speaking until you know who you are speaking to....