Thursday, October 31, 2013

Ad Campaign Research

Ad Campaign Targeted at 20-25 year olds:

Senador Volstead is a beer company based in Spain named after Senator Volstead, who decreed the start of prohibition in 1920. What they have done is created a hidden website, taking advantage of the speak-easy era of drinking in the US, and made it a kind of scavenger hunt to find the true alcohol related website. To find the site, all you have to do is resize your browser window, and it turns into a site that you can buy the beer from. It's an interesting mechanism that plays off of alcohol history to create brand recognition, and a very well designed (and very fun to find) website.

Link: http://www.senadorvolstead.com/eng/#/shop

Ad Campaign Targeted at 30-35 year olds:

In the US, Lowes is a store for homemakers, one that sells furniture and home making goods, such as rugs, and screwdrivers and the like. What Lowes did was create a series of Vine videos, for people that are about the age of their first home (30-35), that shows them tricks and tips on how to make things work well, and how to fix easy problems. The vine videos can be found under #lowesfixinsix, and at the link below:

Link:     http://lowesfixinsix.tumblr.com/

Ad Campaign Targeted at 60-65 year olds:

The senior railcard offered by the National Rail is advertised on its website as a way of visiting family for cheap. The website is easily navigated, something that would be of importance to that age group.


Link: http://www.senior-railcard.co.uk/



Monday, October 21, 2013

Male and Female stereotypes in advertising

Wonderbra - I Can't Cook



Yorkie - It's Just For Men


Clorox - Dads are as smart as house pets




Monday, October 7, 2013

Week 2 Lecture Notes

Commodity Fetishism

About different values of a commodity, and how they effect our view on them.

Use value vs Money Value

Use value is based off how useful an object is. Something with a high use value would be something that you use everyday, like a bicycle or computer.

An object with high money value would be something like a piece of jewelery, or in fact money, which has zero use value, and is 100% based on money value.

The two are balanced when deciding the value and means of advertising a product.