Thursday, 9 December 2010

CTS LECTURE 4 - Advertising in the Media

New media - media that works no through persuasion

  • Robin Wright - '118, 188' 'the future's bright the future's orange'
  • Wiliam Hesketh Lever (1851) auspicious year - founder of the lever bros - first to package sunlight soap - adding value to the product
    • Newspapers - advertising boom, abolishment of tax's 
    • Posters - golden age of the poster, colour printing breakthrough
  • colourful innovative advertising was crucial to Levers success
  • Sunlight Soap was amongst the first to go internationally advertised
  • made promotions interactive
    • collecting wrappers to send off for prizes 
    • boat rides with banquets and people demonstrating how good the soap is - social promotions
  • advocated truth - use it interestingly, the truth can be disarming
  • used the truth wisely focusing on the ways of society and the stereotypes of the time
  • psychology of advertising
  • creating new customers
  • new jobs in advertising
  • NEW MEDIA MODEL
  • viral advertising - advertisements being passed on via e-mail, word of mouth etc much like a virus
  • Tever Beattie: ideas - says the biggest idea since the wheel is the Internet  because it allows smaller ideas to circulate
  • viewer generate content
    • diet coke and mentos YouTube video
    • old spice viral ads
    • oasis NYC promotional YouTube video
    • Embrace life always where you seat belt YouTube video
  • The Third Screen
    • the mobile phone will become the most persuasive method of advertising
  • the impact of new media is up for debate - it effects the creativity itself
  • Hegarty and Beattie
    • Giant Hydra video - mass collaboration, bringing people together to make lots of ideas and nurture them
THINK ABOUT HOW NEW MEDIA CAN AFFECT YOUR DISCIPLINE.

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