Sunday, February 14, 2010

PETA ad


This PETA ad, “Here’s the Rest of Your Fur Coat” is clearly using shock tactics to call attention to the abuse of animal rights. This is a marketing tactic that evokes dissonance by violating out sense of appropriateness. The ad shows the consumers that behind every fur coat was a living, breathing animal who endured incredible suffering. The model appears to be dressed in a very beautiful night evening gown holding a gruesome accessory, the dead body of a skinned fox. This ad stimulates emotional appeal because anger is generated when one realizes that animals go through tremendous amounts of suffering just to be our fur coats. Even though this ad is shocking, it makes the viewer want to help the cause, therefore a sense of belongingness can also be seen in response to this ad.

Friday, February 5, 2010

LIfe Insurance Ad




This ad appeals to the need for immortality by assuring that even though personal circumstances are constantly changing, the “importance of life insurance hasn’t”. This is a very persuasive ad because none of us really wants to admit to ourselves, that one day, we could seize to live. The fear of growing old and dying obviously drives the life insurance industry. The viewer is made to feel that by purchasing life insurance, he or she will somehow obtain life after death in the form of financial security.