Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Advertising Key Concepts
- Bill Bernbach
- VW ad: "Lemon", use of plain
background, playing upon
criticism/stereotype/deviation of
features of the car, simplicity
- BMW i3
- use of advertising
through someone's life
>> lifestyle branding
- attempts to remove
stigma/stereotyping of
electric cars (similar to
the Prius)
- "open ad/advertorial"
- ad in form of editorial content
- Christian Dior "Secret Garden"
- asserts "luxury" and
elegance of brand
- Versailles historically
maintains cultural
authority
- conspicuous consumption
- purchasing goods in attempt to enhance one's social prestige
- Bourdieu
- reinforces class position
(influenced by taste >>
habitus)
- Georg Simmel
- crowds are important to release identity
- alterity vs. annonymity
- consumption of objects allow people the opportunity
to refine themselves and place in society (social
groups)
- glamour/envy (Berger)
- advertising show us people who have been "transformed",
making consumer believe they too can be transformed
- state of being envied=glamour
- advertising isn't about pleasure itself, but
about the FUTURE buyer
- based upon happiness as judged upon by others
- glamour = the happiness of being envied
- Gustave Le Bon
- individual restraint is lost/released in crowds
- crowds=threat to social order >> mob mentality
- use of affirmation, images (story), repetition, exaggeration,
NOT logic (logic is lost in crowds)
- creating "illusion" of group/community for brand
- Pete Barry - Creative Strategies
- 1. before and after, 2. before only, 3. after only, 4. advice, 5.
knowledge, 6. empathy, 7. demonstration, 8. testemonial, 9.
heritage (history of company), 10. owner/staff, 11. product
positioning or repositioning, 12. comparison, 13. challenge, neg to
pos., 14. logic, 15. price, 16. honesty
- interpellant speech
- "frozen" speech
- The New Citroen
- "prostituted", spiritual,
exorcism, compared to
cathedral
- Paris Match, French Salute (Barthes)
- signifiers+signified=sign (black
soldier giving French flag a
salute)
- 1st completed meaning = signifier in 2nd system
- French imperiality = driver behind the myth
- piracy paradox
- idea that copying promotes
innovation and industry rather
than deter it
- stems from idea that customers must like product, but also be dissatisfied
>> purchase new despite tech not changing/improving
- "induced obsolescence"
- fashion industry benefits from
having styles rise/fall quickly
- popular in masses >> people to not want
anymore >> demand for something new
- Demassifying strategies
- classics - timelessness
- craft - nostalgia (ex: handwriting, handcrafted)
- counter/subculture movements - street cred, authenticity
- homology
- the attachment of subcultural groups to objects
- symbolic art of the product fits with the values of the group
- planned obsolescence
- producing goods that require replacement
- frequent changes in design
- new technology
- termination of needed additional parts
- Sociology of Hipster (Mark Grief)
- emergence of subculture
- "taste" (Bourdieu)
differing from traditional
society
- stickiness
- ability to keep consumers/viewers attention
- emotion, stories, etc.
- Beats "Game Before the Game"
- pre-game rituals of multiple audiences/groups of people (athletes, spectators)
- authenticity
- music = part of life
- beyond just a product
- storytelling elements
- use of GLOBAL athletes, celebs, people >> tap into global markets
- talkability (Molotch)
- ability to speak about attributes publicly
- visual rhetoric
- the way IMAGES combined with text influence/persuade
- ex: use of celebs
- shorter, peripheral delivery style
- affordances
- idea that perception drives action
- ex: buttons for pushing, knobs for turning