Propaganda Techniques in Advertising 💥
WHAT IS THE PROPAGANDA ⁉
✏PLAIN FOLKS
✏GLITTERING GENERALITIES
✏TESTIMONIAL
Forms of testimonial
Polictical ads: lend star appeal to the presisential campaign
Capitalize on the admiration people have for a celebrity to make the product shine more brightly
Using vague term and strong affirmative overtones words
Ads for politicians and political
Using attractive-and-slippery-words and pharse
✏TRANSFER
Corporations : sponsor prestigious shows on radio or TV
Political ads: wrap in the flag
Improve the image of a product by asociating it with a symbol most people respect
✏BANDWAGON
✏CARD STACKING
folksy, warmhearted
Make buyers feel that all corporations have the same values they do
It means inviting normal people to advertise for products " Buy me or vote for me. I'm just like you"
Definition
Why it succeed?
Convince buyers to do something because many other people do it
Ex: slogans, print, Internet pop-up ads, commercials, billboards, trademarks, logos...
systematic effort to influence people's opinons
✏NAME CALLING
Stir positive felling in people
Buyers accept the products without thinking very much about what the words mean
Ex: freedom, democratic, all-American, progressive, Christian, justice
buzzwords
high- sounding but empty phrases
Ads for consumers goods
evoke good felling
vague but comforting phrases
Negatively charged names are hurled agaist the opposite side or competitor
Arouse feelings of mistrust, fear and hate in the audiences => damage opponent
Using in political ads and product ads
Prints and television ads
Selling movies
Newpapers ads for film
Pitching- books
reach educated, influential audiences
improve public image
Ex: Mobil: Masterpiece Theater
Guft Oil: National Geographic
increase patriotism and integrity
EX: the Stars and Stripes
Washington Monument
Polictical ads: convince voters that the candidates are average people, common citizens
suppress or distort evidence
tell half-truths
oversimplify the fact
set up a false target to divert attention
Forms of card stacking
weasel words
unfinished claim
words that slip right past us but make diffirent between reality and illusion
Ex: help control, most comparable...
scientific-sounding claim
vague claims
Ex: Oh, what a feeling
A taste of success
Ex: 400% quieter
The ingredient doctors recommend
People have deep desire not to be different
Buyers tend to fell comfortable doing what other do
Examples
"Follow the leader. He is on a Honda"
make buyers to belive the messengers being sent