Communication 2327 - Mercado, Luis: Advertising

3000. That's the number of marketing messages the average American confronts on a daily basis from TV commercials, magazine and newspaper print ads, radio commercials, pop-up ads on gaming apps, to pre-roll on YouTube videos and native advertising on mobile news apps. These commercial messages are so pervasive that we cannot help but be affected by perpetual come-ons to keeping buying. Over the last decade, advertising has become more devious, more digital, and more deceptive, with an increasing number of ads designed to appear to the untrained eye to be editorial content. It's easy to see why. As we have become smarter at avoiding ads, advertisers have become smarter about disguising them. Mara Einstein exposes how our shopping, political and even dating preferences are unwittingly formed by brand images and the mythologies embedded in them. Advertising: What Everyone Needs to Know helps us combat the effects of manipulative advertising, and enables the reader to understand how marketing industries work in the digital age, particularly in their uses and abuses of Big Data. Most importantly, it awakens us to advertising's subtle and not so subtle impact on our lives-both as individuals and as a global society. What ideas and information are being communicated to us - and to what end?

Writing copy is often assumed to be a natural talent. However, there are simple techniques you can employ to craft strong written content with ease. This new, expanded edition teaches the art of writing great copy for digital media, branding, advertising, direct marketing, retailing, catalogues, company magazines and internal communications.Using a series of exercises and up-to-date illustrated examples of award-winning campaigns and communication, Copywriting, Second Edition takes you through step-by-step processes that can help you to write content quickly and effectively.Including insightful interviews from leading copywriters, as well as illustrated case studies of major brands that explore the challenges involved in creating cutting-edge copy, this book will provide you with all the tools you need to become a confident and versatile creative copywriter.

CREATIVE STRATEGY IN ADVERTISING provides everything you need to be successful as an advertising professional in today's fast-changing media environment. Focusing on the idea that good advertising always starts with an understanding of people and an awareness of their needs, the text advances through the creative process step by step. It focuses first on the creative person, and then on strategy and problem solving. Complementing expert instruction with extensive examples of layouts and ad copy, this book gives you all the necessary tools to create winning advertising strategies.

This guide offers invaluable assistance to those who wish to start or have already embarked upon a small business enterprise. Utilizing a step-by-step approach, it takes users through a process of planning, establishing, growing, maintaining, and even exiting a small business. Includes, Marketing and advertising -- Your marketing plan -- Four P's of marketing -- Where to find marketing research -- Write your marketing plan -- Marketing activities -- Competitive analysis -- Identify your competitors -- Data gathering -- Monitor the competition constantly -- Analyzing competitive intelligence -- SWOT analysis -- Competitive advantage

Can advertising be a force for good? How can a brand use advertising to earn the trust of an audience? Demonstrating a brand's corporate conscience or making audiences aware of its charitable or philanthropic activities is one of the great creative challenges an advertising agency can be given. Here is a collection of outstanding and effective campaigns that communicate the socially responsible nature of leading brands, products, and public organizations today. Deftly organized into ten chapters--Transparency, Connection, Simplicity, Collaboration, Passion, Creativity, Contagiousness, Generosity, Insight, and Full Commitment--it both inspires through great work and explains the principles involved. Over ninety campaigns in a full array of media channels are featured, and each is accompanied by a detailed commentary on the work. Including interviews and insights from leading advertising strategists, the book provides a comprehensive overview for professional advertising creatives, brand strategists, or anyone who works with a brand that values truth, trust, and responsibility.

Marketing Plans That Work, Second Edition, is a practical and insightful step-by-step guide to successfully preparing and executing a marketing plan. The book combines the very best of current practice with necessary theoretical and technical background. This new edition builds on the first edition's success by including new examples, the latest techniques, and new chapters on marketing strategy and e-commerce. It also adds technology to its focus in response to today's need to enhance sustainable competitive advantage. Marketing managers and business executives developing marketing and e-business strategies, especially those integrating new marketing technologies, will profit tremendously from this book.

The special Tenth Edition of this powerhouse bestselling text maintains its tradition as the most comprehensive, up-to-date guide to the music industry. Includes chapters on the marketing plan -- SWOT -- The elements of a marketing plan -- Digital marketing -- Record distribution -- Digital distribution -- National Association of Recording Merchandisers -- Marketplace research -- Understanding the consumer -- Research topics -- The Charts -- Demographics.