Advertising and how it has affected society.

Fred D'Amico

Topic: How advertisers influence their consumers.

Take a look around. Notice anything? If you didn't, it is because you are so used to looking at it everyday that you become immune to it. What is this "It"? ADVERTISING.

Advertising is all around us. On TV, magazines, newspapers, internet, billboards, the radio, and even on vehicles. Why do these advertisers show their product so frequently? What are they trying to do? How do they accomplish what they are trying to sell? Who are they trying to sell to? What are some of the techniques they use? These are the questions you have to ask yourself.

First of all, when trying to sell a product, advertisers have to figure out the location of where the product will be most popular, the age and gender of the population they are trying to sell to and how often those people are going to use that product.

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