Introduction
Advertisement is a communication style associated with widespread diffusion capacity to entrench into society’s discourse unrestrictedly. Adverts are powerful in terms of influence, as the mechanism has an aptitude, which creates a culture with the ability to stretch beyond global boundaries. Almost everyone can witness the power of this phenomenon, whether through the TV, newspapers, or directories, and appreciate its persuading power. Through their power of publication, which falls in the category of persuasion, information and reminding, advertisements ensue whereabouts of a brand to the target customers unlimitedly.
How It Is Used to Educate the Public
Car Brands Through Directory
The aim of an advert is to persuade, inform, and remind the public or customers of a brand. One of the best ways to pass a message across is to utilize directory mechanisms. A directory is a type of advertisement in which the business comfortably lists the category and names of a product. The main agenda in this regard is to ensure the public receives as much knowledge about a product as possible.
Besides being a strategy that helps marketers make money, advertisement forms a culture, too. If forced to meet the desires of the consumer, the technique has direct consequences for their lives (McCabe, 2009). The modernity makes this approach demand an effective and comprehensive of its various elements and components for customers to appreciate a product. Through its vision, the design sends messages to all people, making them have similar concerns and adhere to the same beliefs and interests as a company does. Knowing about a product, for instance, the Chevrolet car, as seen in the picture, makes a customer receive a message filled with ideas similar to the companies. When everyone acquires information about this car in the same form, it causes a unified culture considering their belief will be of the similar approval.
The Chevrolet Car
This picture was located in Global Brands’ directory because the channel makes a good advertisement strategy. The company can as well utilize yellow pages, an online store, to target customers through a directory mechanism. From the advert, for instance, the car is at position three globally as per Global Brand’s information stated in the advert with aspects such as durability and reliability being some of the main considerations to its rating. The product is currently sold in more than 100 countries and still maintains a perfect car brand value worldwide (“Car Brands-Top 20 in the World,” n.d). In terms of safety and reliability, the car became 23rd universally in 2019 while maintaining its title of the most dependable vehicle (“Car Brands-Top 20 in the World,’ n.d). Economically, from its presentation and advert, as stated in Global Brands, the brand attracts customers who want a reliable car, with reliability and safety being the major concerns.
Advertisement Through Television
Television is a valuable channel for communication considering it as a popular platform for advertisement. For businesspersons who serve large market sizes, this platform is suitable because of its unique sound and light feature, which when used, easily persuades the viewers to want to buy it. This commercial communication mode has as well been mentioned in Barthes’ explanation. According to Barthes’ revelation, an image should persuade customers in making them understand its placement (Lanir, 2019). This picture alone, for example, shows a car without prints on the picture and thus signifies the originality of the car (Lanir, 2019). However, the viewer considers the message in a connoted way, associating the information provided to the trademark’s socio-cultural state.
The picture shows a clear image of a car, considering customers do not require extra analysis to identify it. The image creates aspects of realism, hence meeting Barthes’ argument as written in his article titled “The Rhetoric of The Image – Roland Barthes (1964)” (McCabe, 2009). The author exposed the essentials to ignoring the need for other information besides what occurs in the customer’s view. It means once buyers are able to comprehend an object, they easily realize its identity just from its visual reality. This technique is most commonly used in TV commercial communications. In Barthes’ analysis, the concept of displaying images to create a specific comprehension of the object is noted meaningfully, and the same concept has been utilized in advertising the above (Nissan) car. When a picture is decoded, it helps a customer understand it from both the placement and composition effortlessly (Lanir, 2019). Beyond this conception, however, the commercialization of an object can be categorized as a linguistic dispatch with iconic messages (Lanir, 2019). The Nissan advert offers viewers value and meaning considering its iconic view.
The Honda through a Newspaper
A newspaper is a type of advertisement media with the ability to network a brand to a wide range of customers. This type of communication utilizes a paper, with proper classified listings put under headings in sections. In most cases, when this advertisement channel meets the right consumers, the platform becomes useful and can give proper results. On Global Brands’ newspaper, this Honda intended to attract more clients the same as Chevrolet. In the context of durability, as stated in Global brands, the advertisers disclose this product to be consistent. The source reveals that the car is among the top ten cars rated for their reliability and technology (“Car Brands-Top 20 In the World,” n.d.). From this message, it is arguable, that the main purpose of this advertisement was to attract buyers by persuasion in the process; it educates all the interested consumers. A car brand is an example of an advertisement, which not only confines the principle of building brand awareness but also realizes Barthes’ concepts positively. Through persuasion, the strategy managed to utilize a car in marketing and explaining the uniqueness of the product; in the event, the statement becomes economical in characteristics. The objective is to show the entire process of communication in guaranteeing an increase in sales volume through messages which create a product’s specific comprehension.
Global Brand’s product message works to direct a viewer or serve as an anchor in revealing the intended meaning. From the picture, however, customers can easily appreciate the image’s perceptual and cultural allusion simultaneously. However, a proper understanding of the pictures (Nissan, Honda and Chevrolet) requires the customers to have interpretational ability. This means the connotation of a message, which is a picture, will always direct the target population to avoid sticking to the literal image but instead to its extended communication. Global Brands being the main advertisers use luring messages to educate the potential buyers. Importantly, the marketers were keen to adhere to the promotional principle, which entails passing information to the target audience about a particular product.
Conclusion
In conclusion, advertisements are used to educate the public through three main techniques: persuasion, information, and reminding. Through TV, newspapers, and directories, marketers find it possible and easier to meet their esteemed clients. Individuals will only comprehend the availability of a product when they understand the brand. As Barthes explained marketing strategy, the sellers can have a message with “signification,”. By sharing Chevrolet, Nissan and Honda adverts, the manufacturers were utilizing the adverts to make more sales from the brands.
References
Car Brands – Top 20 In The World. (n.d.). Global Brands. Web.
Lanir, L. (2019). Roland Barthes: Decoding images and image rhetoric — explained.Medium.com. Web.
McCabe, H. (2009). Traces of The Real. Web.