Sunday, April 29, 2012

Ads and College Students


A lot of Ads are directed at a younger audience, more specifically, college students.  A couple of examples that come to mind are 5 hour energy and Axe body sprays.  They have two different ways of attracting the younger demographic to their product. 5 hour energy uses the fact that there is not enough hours in the day and that college students are constantly bombarded with school and work. They make it seem like no college student can make it through the day unless they have the wonderful product known as 5 hour energy. Axe uses the more popular method. Sex. Every single Ad that they I have seen about them is geared toward gettin me some. (pardon my French) My favorite slogan that they have is “how dirty boys get clean”. A lot of products do similar things, one that comes to mind is red bull. Not all, but several of their advertisements are very sexually suggestive in nature. These are just a few of the several products put in our face every day. Ads are necessary for us to know what is available to us, we just have to remember not to let ourselves believe everything we see on these commercials, We need to make sure to research things and not use things blindly.

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