This document provides an introduction and overview of the book "Advertising and Promotional Culture: Case Histories". It summarizes that the book examines how advertising has developed and changed over time through case studies. Key points made include:
- Advertising has become integral to modern consumer culture and the way goods and services are distributed.
- Early advertising focused on product claims and reasons to buy, often linked to science. It communicated improvements to the individual through consumption.
- Advertising promises both individual fulfillment and a sense of belonging through brands as social identities.
- The book aims to understand contemporary advertising by looking back at its historical development and longer trajectories within culture.
Advertising has evolved significantly from its early beginnings. It started as oral announcements promoting goods and services, and developed into painted signs and notices. Over time, advertising expanded its reach through various media like newspapers, radio, television and the internet. Modern advertising is a major worldwide industry that aims to influence consumer purchases. It works by notifying people of new products and services, and creating associations to satisfy human needs and desires.
This document discusses advertising from multiple perspectives. It provides an overview of advertising, including its history, types, uses, and debates. Advertising is defined as a form of communication to persuade audiences about products or services. It has both positive and negative impacts on society. While advertising can increase awareness, sales and economic growth, it can also promote materialism and overconsumption. The balance between necessary and unnecessary advertising should be considered.
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Advertising has existed for thousands of years and was used to promote wares in ancient markets. It became more prominent in the 19th century as retailers began advertising products and prices. Advertising agencies developed to meet industry needs and professionalized over time. Advertising is now pervasive across many media channels and is designed to attract attention and stimulate desire for products. While it supports economic growth, critics argue advertising is often intrusive, deceptive, exploits children, and can negatively impact culture by promoting materialism. Regulations aim to protect consumers by restricting certain ad content and influence.
The document discusses the concept of postmodern marketing and its relevance to creative and media industries, using the advertising industry as a case study. It begins with an overview of postmodernism and theories of postmodern marketing, focusing on symbolic meaning, customization, identity, and playfulness. It then analyzes examples of contemporary advertising to identify evidence of these postmodern marketing traits. While advertising began as a modernist practice, the document argues it has evolved elements of postmodern marketing to continue appealing to audiences in a postmodern world.
Advertising can provide benefits but also harms. It informs consumers and encourages economic growth, but sometimes provides misleading information or creates unrealistic wants. It may use women, children, or morality to sell products in ways that disrespect or manipulate audiences. While advertising has a role, communicators and advertisers should prioritize high standards, avoid false claims, and respect audiences.
Advertising has influenced culture and traditions by promoting new products and lifestyles. Images in advertising set standards for ideals around beauty, success, and happiness. While advertising aims to influence consumer behavior, it also plays a role in shifting cultural norms over time related to gender roles, family structures, and consumerism. Some argue this has negatively impacted well-being by promoting materialism and unhealthy ideals, though others see benefits from exposing people to new ideas and options.
Advertising has evolved significantly from its early beginnings. It started as oral announcements promoting goods and services, and developed into painted signs and notices. Over time, advertising expanded its reach through various media like newspapers, radio, television and the internet. Modern advertising is a major worldwide industry that aims to influence consumer purchases. It works by notifying people of new products and services, and creating associations to satisfy human needs and desires.
This document discusses advertising from multiple perspectives. It provides an overview of advertising, including its history, types, uses, and debates. Advertising is defined as a form of communication to persuade audiences about products or services. It has both positive and negative impacts on society. While advertising can increase awareness, sales and economic growth, it can also promote materialism and overconsumption. The balance between necessary and unnecessary advertising should be considered.
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Advertising has existed for thousands of years and was used to promote wares in ancient markets. It became more prominent in the 19th century as retailers began advertising products and prices. Advertising agencies developed to meet industry needs and professionalized over time. Advertising is now pervasive across many media channels and is designed to attract attention and stimulate desire for products. While it supports economic growth, critics argue advertising is often intrusive, deceptive, exploits children, and can negatively impact culture by promoting materialism. Regulations aim to protect consumers by restricting certain ad content and influence.
The document discusses the concept of postmodern marketing and its relevance to creative and media industries, using the advertising industry as a case study. It begins with an overview of postmodernism and theories of postmodern marketing, focusing on symbolic meaning, customization, identity, and playfulness. It then analyzes examples of contemporary advertising to identify evidence of these postmodern marketing traits. While advertising began as a modernist practice, the document argues it has evolved elements of postmodern marketing to continue appealing to audiences in a postmodern world.
Advertising can provide benefits but also harms. It informs consumers and encourages economic growth, but sometimes provides misleading information or creates unrealistic wants. It may use women, children, or morality to sell products in ways that disrespect or manipulate audiences. While advertising has a role, communicators and advertisers should prioritize high standards, avoid false claims, and respect audiences.
Advertising has influenced culture and traditions by promoting new products and lifestyles. Images in advertising set standards for ideals around beauty, success, and happiness. While advertising aims to influence consumer behavior, it also plays a role in shifting cultural norms over time related to gender roles, family structures, and consumerism. Some argue this has negatively impacted well-being by promoting materialism and unhealthy ideals, though others see benefits from exposing people to new ideas and options.
This document provides an overview of advertising, including its aims, effectiveness, definitions, and persuasive nature. It discusses how advertising aims to attract attention, build desire, and obtain action from consumers. Advertising persuades by appealing to psychological and emotional needs, associating products with desirable values and lifestyles, and creating symbolic images. The document also covers media selection, planning, and scheduling, discussing the various media channels available and factors to consider when determining ad placement.
This document provides an overview of advertising, including its aims, definitions, and persuasive techniques. It discusses how advertising aims to attract attention, build desire, and obtain action from consumers. Advertising persuades by appealing to consumer needs and desires, and by associating products with positive values, images, and lifestyles. The document also covers different media used for advertising, factors to consider in media selection/planning/scheduling, and the history of television in India.
The document discusses the evolution and purposes of advertising. It traces advertising from ancient and medieval times, when it was conducted primarily by word of mouth, to the modern era. Key developments included the growth of print advertising alongside the development of newspapers and magazines in the 15th-18th centuries. In the 19th century, the advertising industry emerged alongside growing business, and advertising expanded through various media like television, radio, and the internet in the 20th century. The document also outlines several common objectives of advertising, such as informing and persuading buyers, building brand image, and assisting sales.
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“...Our DNA is as a consumer company - for that individual customer who's voting thumbs up or thumbs down. That's who we think about. And we think that our job is to take responsibility for the complete user experience. And if it's not up to par, it's our fault, plain and simply. “ Steve Jobs.
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This paper mainly deals with the concepts and issues surrounding the matter of consumption. Consumption is a complex social phenomenon, in which people consume goods or services for reasons beyond their basic use.
A consumer society is one in which the entire society is organized around the consumption and display of commodities, through which individuals gain prestige and identity. Given the above context, globalization brings about diverse trends, cultural differentiation and cultural hybridization (Pieterse, 1996).
The term “consumer culture” refers to cultures in which mass consumption fuels the economy and shapes perceptions, values, desires, and personal identity. Consumers do not make their decisions in a blank moment.
Their purchases are highly influenced by cultural, social and psychological factors. Therefore, a customer’s want has to be identified and his expectations must be matched with the other economic and social factors.
The world is moving and changing at a pace that is both positive and negative in a way. Britain is an exceptional example of this ongoing situation. London is now more diverse than any city that has ever existed. Altogether, more than 300 languages are spoken by the people of London, and the city has at least 50 non-indigenous communities with populations of 10,000 or more. (www.statistics.gov.uk)
People are changing from time to time, so do their tastes and preferences. Marketers are always concerned about cultural shifts and keen to discover new products or services that consumers may want. Understanding the ingredients and drivers of global consumer culture is the key to gaining insight regarding consumer behavior. In a diversified country like UK, culture not only influences consumer behavior but also reflects it. Marketing strategies are unlikely to change cultural values, but marketing does influence culture.
This document provides an overview of advertising and media planning. It defines advertising and discusses its key features, objectives, functions, types, history and criticisms. Advertising is defined as a paid, non-personal communication to promote an idea, good or service. The document outlines the economic, social and ethical roles of advertising and examines it as a communication process. Criticisms of advertising relate to its potential negative impacts on society through promoting materialism or harmful stereotypes. The document also analyzes advertising as a marketing tool to communicate brand messages across different media platforms.
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Advertising has existed in various forms for thousands of years. Early forms included stenciled brick advertisements from Babylon, town criers in medieval times, and painted signs in ancient Rome and Egypt. The printing press was a major development, allowing mass production of flyers and posters. In the 19th century, the growth of newspapers, railroads, and telegraph networks facilitated nationwide advertising. The development of radio in the 1920s and television in the 1950s further expanded advertising's reach into consumers' lives. Advertising has become more scientific over time through audience research and testing to evaluate effectiveness.
The document discusses the history and evolution of advertising from ancient times to present. It defines advertising and outlines key developments such as the introduction of advertising agencies in the 19th century and new mediums like radio and television. The document also covers different types of advertising like TV, radio, print, online and product placement. Emerging trends discussed include the rise of internet advertising and user-generated ads, as well as challenges of legal restrictions and customer indifference.
The document provides an overview of advertising as a component of marketing promotion. It discusses the origin and history of advertising from ancient times through the modern era. Key points include:
- Advertising has existed since ancient civilizations used signs, town criers, and trademarks to promote goods and services.
- The development of the printing press in the 15th century increased advertising potential through posters and pamphlets.
- Modern advertising emerged in the late 19th/early 20th century alongside mass media like newspapers, magazines, radio, and later television.
- Advertising is now a major business and an integral part of marketing strategy, using various media to promote products, brands, and ideas.
Advertising is a form of communication used to encourage or persuade an audience to take action regarding a commercial offering or political/ideological issue. The purpose is usually to drive consumer behavior or reassure stakeholders. Advertising messages are paid for by sponsors and viewed through various media like television, radio, newspapers/magazines, outdoor displays, direct mail, and digital platforms. Spending on advertising in 2010 was estimated at $142.5 billion in the US and $467 billion worldwide.
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I discuss the concept of collaborative industry data, dynamic third party data, predictive modeling and using data to target hyper-niche audience segments.
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Since 1996, The New Single Copy has been the publishing industry's leading source of news, data, and information about publications, the retail marketplace, and the changes brought on by digital delivery technology.
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3. The campaign shows how global capitalism and consumerism can undermine cultural and social norms through dominance of commercial culture on a global scale.
This document provides an overview of ethics in marketing research and advertising. It discusses several key points:
1. Advertising promotes consumerism but can also undermine personal autonomy by exploiting human desires. It faces criticism for being deceptive, manipulative, and for promoting excessive consumption.
2. Ethical principles for advertising include respecting truthfulness, not exploiting human weaknesses for profit, and respecting social responsibilities regarding issues like the environment and materialism.
3. The benefits of advertising include communication, raising standards of living, and product differentiation, but it also faces ethical pitfalls if it misleads consumers or fails to tell the whole truth regarding products.
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3. Contents
List of Figures vii
Acknowledgments ix
1 Introduction: The Strange Cases of Advertising 1
2 From Production to Consumption: The Rise of
Patent Medicines 11
3 Building Consumer Culture: The Department Store
and Mail Order Catalogue 31
4 Formation of the Advertising Industry:
Camel Cigarettes and Marketing Controversial Products 45
5 Traditional and Ambient Advertising:
Targeting Children through Cereal 65
6 Volkswagen and the Creative Revolution 85
7 The Meaning of Design and the Design of
Meaning: The IKEA Experience 107
8 Globalization and Advertising: The Case of Nike 129
9 Advertising and Politics: Selling Presidents as Soap 149
10 The Institutionalization of Branding and the
Branding of the Self 173
11 Advertising and Social Action: Dove and Real Beauty 191
12 The Prosumer in Consumer Culture: YouTube and
Annoying Orange 211
Conclusion 229
References 239
Index 255
4. 1
Introduction: The Strange Cases
of Advertising
This book is about advertising. It addresses through rich case histories how
advertising has developed and changed over time. Advertising is an interesting
phenomenon. It is clearly a form of media and communication, but it also
identifies, often in the most creative way, how economic motivations work
their way through our media forms. Moreover, perhaps more than any other
media and communication form, advertising has had to adjust and insinuate
itself into the new spectrum of how media works in the era of online and
mobile culture.
In contrast to a great deal of recent scholarship in media and communication
which has focused on change and transformation (see for example
Merrin 2015; Gauntlett 2015; Turner 2015), our study looks for the longer
trajectories of how advertising’s varied messages have been incorporated into
culture. In the ever-changing media and culture-scape, it is vitally important
to identify what has appeared in the past and how that patterning of media
helps us understand what is developing in the present. All is not new, and it
is important to not allow the overextended discourse of innovation to overwhelm
our understanding of what parts of our cultural activity have a longer
arc, have occurred in previous eras and have perhaps informed the constellation
of newness that we allow to envelope our interpretations.
This book’s intention is to look backward in order to make sense of contemporary
advertising and consumer culture. Through a series of “case histories”,
Advertising and Promotional Culture explores how advertising has become a
twinned discourse to modernity. This twinning to the future-oriented focus of
modernity – to notions of progress, change, and transformation – describes how
advertising has always been a way of communicating some sort of instability
5. Advertising and Promotional Culture 2
couched in terms of a pathway to a new level of satisfaction and fulfilment. We
see this through concepts such as T.J. Jackson Lears therapeutic ethos, which
posits that the quest for self-fulfilment is the motor of consumer culture, or
Wolfgang Haug’s work on commodity aesthetics, which posits that seductive
sensory appeals promise to satisfy unfulfilled aspects of the self.
Although advertising’s intentions are simple – at the most basic level advertising
is the expansion of sales of good or services – the way that it achieves this
objective through its various messages and its connections to the living people
of markets is complex and reveals a great deal about the way particular cultures
and societies situate value. Advertising and Promotional Culture: Case Histories
investigates these complexities through what we would call a deep structural
analysis of the commodity sign: how a particular commodity form/product is
expressed, promulgated, made new, and thereby integrated in some manner
into the very fabric of everyday life. Histories of advertising usually point to it
rivalling the oldest profession in terms of its ever-presence, but our work here
underlines its increased deployment in the last two centuries. So, yes, a town
crier advertising the pamphlets of the eighteenth century and the ancient
realm of the agora and the bazaar are defined by competing voices connected
to an array of products that are desgned to lure the consumer, but there is a
qualitative difference in this earlier practice of what could be called forms of
promotion and what now is understood as advertising. As much research has
explored, the growth of advertising is wedded to the emergence of a consumer
culture that some describe as a definable “anthropological type” of society
(Leiss et al. 2005). The case histories in this book trace this development
from the mid-nineteenth century in order to explore the key transformations
from a producer-oriented to a consumer-oriented society. They identify
the breakdown in the relation of both the production and distribution of
goods and services that defined more traditional societies (a term that in and
of itself generalizes to too great a degree the pre-nineteenth century relation to
production). They also highlight how cultural meaning and communication
become central aspects of consumption by the end of the nineteenth century.
As we discuss in Chapter 2, by the mid-nineteenth century the Industrial
Revolution, which facilitated the “democratization” of goods, expanded the
realms of choice and consumption available to the middle classes in both
Europe and the United States. In this context, advertising developed as a
form of communication and became an industry in its own right in order to
make goods more appealing in a competitive marketplace. The production of
desire became a central principle that guided advertising. While advertising
agencies initially arose in order to help advertisers place their ads in newspapers
and magazines, they quickly expanded to include copywriters to craft
6. 1 Introduction: The Strange Cases of Advertising 3
the persuasive language of ads, and then graphic artists to produce alluring
images. The centrality of the advertising agency, and the range of functions
and services it provides, has continued to grow into the twenty-first century as
advertising has become integral to the way goods and services are distributed.
The significance of this growth, expansion, and normalization of the advertising
industry cannot be underestimated in its importance in understanding
contemporary culture.
As advertising developed from the nineteenth to the twentieth century,
several functions emerged that are still relevant today. We will see in our discussion
of patent medicines, as well as other case histories we explore in the
book, that much early advertising focused on the product and offered the
consumer a reason for buying. Although advertising was clearly a discourse of
persuasion, in a cultural milieu marked by the growing authority of science
and medicine, advertising claims were often linked to the rational discourse
of science. The re-expression of science through advertising often produced
bizarre and overly bombastic claims that appeared in cigarette advertising as
much as cereal promotions, drawing on the original puffery of patent medicine
advertisements.
Beyond the seemingly rational reason for buying, advertising also communicated
some aspect of the future via its persuasive tenor. Throughout its
more than 150-year-old history, advertising has operated as an affirming discourse
of the near future, a way of incrementally changing the status of the
individual for some form of improvement. Because advertising’s fundamental
work is on transforming a potential consumer into a purchaser of a product
or service, individual advertisements often herald what the individual can
achieve through possession, whether the literal health benefits of a patent
medicine or the symbolic attributes associated with a brand image. As we
explore advertising’s transformative discouse of the self throughout the book,
one of our central themes concerns how advertising both creates and promises
to fulfil desire for self-transformation through some form of consumption. As
we move from brands as material symbols of production to brands as configurations
of aesthetic, emotional, and social qualities, we see how they become
resources for the construction of personal and social identity.
While advertising promises individual fulfilment, it simultaneously
addresses the desire to belong. Klingman (2006, 56) writes, “a brand is both
a personal and social identity, an expression of who we think we are and with
whom we want or expect to be compared”. Similarly, as Thorstein Veblen’s
original work in the early twentieth century on the “leisure class” and the
cultural game of emulation first analysed (Veblen 1970), the desire for recognition
and status, displayed through commodities, was essential to the
7. Advertising and Promotional Culture 4
formation of consumer culture. Advertisers’ techniques were designed to draw
on the cultural codes of reputation and prestige and somehow insinuate their
product into how those codes were maintained or replicated. Reputation and
prestige, however, are transformable codes. By the latter half of the twentieth
century, rather than differentiating consumers by hierarchies of class,
advertisers began to segment markets into increasingly niche groups of consumers
defined by taste and “lifestyle”. Prestige became associated with an
array of goods for youth subcultures that bore no relation to the styles of the
economic and cultural elites. For example, hipster style established a wholly
different repertoire of prestige, from the choice of dress to the patterns of cosmetics
that helped define what was significant and valued. While jeans were
once a durable working-class staple, frayed, shredded, or torn jeans became
hipster fashion statements that could cost hundreds of dollars. What is key
here is how prestige, status, and value become determined by structures of
emulative belonging.
In contemporary consumer culture almost every activity becomes a signifier
of one’s lifestyle and identity, so that consumers both express their desire
for belonging and achieve recognition and social status through their shared
affinities for products and brands. We refer to these as brand tribes: groups of
consumers who share interests and tastes based around a product. In a global
economy, consumers become members of a clan who are linked by brands
rather than nation state. Members of a brand tribe do not buy products as
much as they buy signifiers of a lifestyle or identity in order to increase social
recognition and prestige. This new tribalism is another of the central themes
that motivates our work.
Further, advertising from the nineteenth to twenty-first century has
increasingly worked to engage consumers through participatory experiences.
In the early stages of industrialization and mass production, consumers would
seek out products and advertising would provide information about their
attributes
and benefits. But in a marketplace of competing, often similar, products,
advertisers recognize the need to foster brand loyalty and connection
through some kind of investment of the self. Testimonials and endorsements
provide one kind of participatory experience, while trade cards for cigarettes
and department stores, or box tops from cereal packages, also encouraged
consumers
to actively engage with a product. Similarly, it is a truism that
consumers who build their own IKEA products feel more atttached to them
than if they had been purchased already assembled. We examine the different
forms of participation in early advertisements as they move towards the
co-creation of meaning and the eventual blurring of the lines between consumer
and producer,
so that we end with the prosumer who is simultaneously
8. 1 Introduction: The Strange Cases of Advertising 5
a producer and consumer of meaning. Members of tribes express their identities
through brands, but simultaneously help to produce and amplify the
brand’s meaning by participating in brand experiences – whether purchasing
a branded piece of apparel, posting a message on a brand’s website, liking a
brand on Facebook, or even sending a viral video on to a friend. Consumers
and brands mutually constitute one another, though we note in Chapter 12
that practices of brand management channel the production of value in the
service of the brand. Throughout the book, we return to this theme of participatory
engagement as it has evolved from the nineteenth century to the present.
Finally, advertising functions in all of its diversity as an attention-shifting
form of communication, an element that perhaps is its most enduring characteristic.
A billboard on the side of the road is designed to draw your attention.
Similarly, a television commercial, if it is cleverly constructed, pulls you away
from the programme you are viewing into the 30- or 60-second narrative
orbit of its advertised product. An attractive model in a fashion magazine likewise
draws your eye into a closer study of the hair product or cosmetics being
depicted.
Online culture with its pre-content ads and its pop-ups serves as a remarkably
similar form of distraction and attraction to these earlier forms. Because
advertising is by design and focus all about attention, its past forms of attracting
our eyes not only define contemporary advertising in many ways, they
also help us understand other dimensions of the attention economy (see
Goldhaber 2006). For example, even the presentation of news, which has
traditionally been considered a discourse whose primary aim is to inform
rather than persuade, is increasingly similar to the discourse of advertising.
Major online news sites currently focus on producing “click-bait”, which are
small, attractive, image-rich, and alluring stories to pull the online reader into
further stories. Similarly, information moves in what are now called “listicles”,
where “facts” are organized into top-10, best and worst lists for any type of
content. Social media serves as a further passage to the news as Instragrammers,
Pinteresters, Facebook wall and feed climbers, and Twitter users attempt to
attract attention with phrases such as “if you are only going to read one story
today, read this”, or “you are not going to believe this story”. Like advertising,
these rely on techniques designed to attract the attention of “friends” and “followers”
who, when interlinked, define the new audience and the new market
of online culture. Both advertising and promotion inform this new culture
of attraction and provide the basic interlinked communicative techniques of
both distraction and attention. We explore this final theme by examining how
advertising seeks to capture attention by blurring the categories of advertising,
9. Advertising and Promotional Culture 6
news, art, education, or entertainment. In so doing, advertising, to borrow
from the infamous words of Guy deBord (1967), “has attained the total occupation
of social life”.
Organization of Chapters
This book makes the past of advertising and promotion legible in the contemporary
moment through a comprehensive reading of its forms of communication. Advertising and
Promotional Culture: Case Histories takes 11 case histories of advertising and promotion and
explores in-depth the way that they form the meaning of the product itself – its sign value – and
have informed the organization of advertising as a nineteenth to twenty-first century
privileged discourse.
Each of our cases positions the significance and importance of various
approaches to advertising differently: collectively, the case histories allow us to address many
theoretical positions and weigh their value in making sense of advertising in contemporary
culture. Our case histories provide parallel and overlapping maps of how advertising and the
advertising industry works. Thus, you will find that our case histories are not contained by a
single campaign. For instance, our study of cigarettes in Chapter 4 maps the advertising
industry’s relationship to selling tobacco over more than a century and then isolates one of its
most provocative campaigns in the 1990s. We have also made very direct choices about our case
histories so that they are designed specifically to explain the position of advertising in the larger
fields and operations of promotion and marketing. These various promotional pathways
appear in our case history of Annoying Orange in Chapter 12, but also in the ambient approaches
to advertising privileged in selling cereal to families in Chapter 5, a case that studies 70 years of
presenting a range of products. Similarly, our study in Chapter 11 of Dove’s efforts at social
activism also points to how advertising campaigns are rarely contained within the text,
images, and graphics of display ads and commercials. Each of our case histories is structured for
two related purposes. First, through individual case histories we have tried to stitch together a
valuable reading of advertising from the nineteenth century to the twenty-first century.
Thus, you will see that in general, the case histories at the beginning of the book – the
development of patent medicines and the birth of the department store, the marketing of Camel
cigarettes, and the ambient advertising of children’s cereals – have origins in the nineteenth
century and then move into the twentieth century. The case histories of Volkswagen, IKEA, and
Nike that
10. 1 Introduction: The Strange Cases of Advertising 7
follow describe the rise of multinational corporations in the mid-twentieth
century, though they also have precursors and have continued to advance well
into the twenty-first century. The final group of case histories – which explore
presidential politics, self-branding, commodity activism, and the YouTube
prosumer – are analytically focused on the contemporary as advertising has
become inextricably related to identity.
Our second objective was to use the best case histories to explain a particular,
peculiar but important, aspect of advertising. One of the most interesting
elements
of advertising is its very ubiquitousness. However, in its very particular
dimensions of cultural and social activity, we see some very specific
and innovative developments emerge in advertising. There is no question that
one of the fascinating elements of patent medicine advertising and promotion,
for example – which we explore in-depth in Chapter 2 – is that the
practices helped define the emergence of consumer culture itself. In a similar
vein, our case history in Chapter 3 on department stores further identifies the
naturalization of the experience and pleasure of shopping as these megastores
attempted to produce a sensorium of attractions to lure the individual into
the possibilities of transformation through buying and consumption.
Because our study in Chapter 4 focuses on cigarettes through the long
history of Camel, conceptually it has two objectives. First, cigarette manufacturers
happened to be one of the earliest adopters of advertising agencies to
make their products move nationally and, ultimately, internationally. This case
history allows us to focus on the industrial organization of advertising with
all its various creative and research subsidiaries. Second, the case history of
Camel cigarettes points to techniques of innovation that have been used more
broadly in advertising. Cigarettes are a product with a very tainted history –
after all, from its earliest incarnation, smoking was seen to be unhealthy; yet
cigarettes have consistently circumvented waves of negative publicity and regulation
through clever marketing and advertising. This case history explores
those techniques with its focus on the Camel brand over many decades.
Chapter 5 uses the complex relationship between children and advertising
to build a case history of understanding what we are calling “ambient
advertising”. Ambient advertising refers to techniques of promotion that
surround a product with activities that enrich the experience of the product
itself. Through the example of children’s cereal advertising and promotion, the
case history explores the way that products become part of popular culture. In
addition, from the first decades of the twentieth century to the present, cereals
have been linked to children’s health and betterment. Paralleling this form of
promotion was the effort to make cereals a form of play for children through
the creation of promotional products and toys, the development of characters
11. Advertising and Promotional Culture 8
and shows, and the incredible focus on children themselves as the primary
market for the family’s food-buying practices.
Chapter 6’s case history involves the car manufacturer Volkswagen. The
case history is a study of how advertising in the middle decades of the twentieth
century became self-reflexive of its own industry and outwardly linked
to new trends in popular and political culture. The selling of the VW Beetle
is a beautiful case history in how difference in a product is linked to differences
in a culture and generates potential attractions in a segmented mass
market.
Via the case history of IKEA, Chapter 7 focuses on the relationship between
design and advertising from the mid-twentieth century to the present. IKEA,
the Swedish furniture company, has developed a sophisticated conceptual
understanding of its wide array of products as distinctive from all other furniture
products because of their design features and IKEA’s business practices.
IKEA is notable for designing a unified corporate image and product. It has
developed both a look and a sensibility about the superiority of their product
through the inherent culture and ethics of their designs.
Behind the case history of Nike, Chapter 8 considers the relationship
advertising has to globalization. Expanding markets is one of the essential
motivations of capitalism, and the discourse of advertising is essential for the
transnational movement of goods and services as advertising works to construct
its allures through these new markets. As a sport shoe and clothing manufacturer,
Nike has used the transnational nature of sport to move products more
and more widely. Interestingly, Nike has also recognized that globalization
can mean that the design and advertising message of a given product can be
divorced from its manufacturing source. The case history demonstrates how
advertising has helped situate brands in cultural spaces that express the ultimate
ethical sense of sporting objectives as the other possible ethical messages,
for example, how Nike products are manufactured, become minimized.
Chapter 9 works to identify how advertising has become a naturalized
partner of politics. With political elections, in some way or another a form
of promotional campaign, politics has represented one of the most innovative
spaces in advertising as a form of communication. The case history maps
how advertising has been both limited and structured into international politics
and then focuses on the advertising history of American President Barack
Obama’s two presidential campaigns. What this case history underlines are
two developments that are endemic to advertising: the massive amount of
effort that has focused on market research and the considerable transformation
of political advertising in its integration of online forms of promotion in
concert with other media campaigns.
12. 1 Introduction: The Strange Cases of Advertising 9
Chapter 10 investigates the expanding world of brands and branding.
Via its case history of perfume promotion, the chapter reveals how branding
works in contemporary culture, how it constructs a new system of value
beyond other forms of financial value, and ultimately how it has led to the
adoption of self-branding as one way to promote the self in the contemporary
world. Perfume manufacturing has been increasingly focused on personalizing
fragrances through attaching them to celebrities and their partially preconstructed
personas. This model of self-branding that the perfume industry
has drawn from the wider entertainment industry has now been expanded
to the way that much of online culture is currently constructed. Many individuals
engage with the world by self-branding; it is an accepted form of
identity,
as promotional culture normalizes what might have in the past been
seen as an inappropriate presentation of self.
Our last two chapters deal with more current developments in advertising.
In the latter two decades of the twentieth century, an anti-consumer
movement that targeted specifically advertising emerged, generating protests
from the well-known Adbusters magazine to the graffiti-like interventions
on advertising billboards throughout the world, both of which aggressively
tried to alter the meaning of ad campaigns and challenge consumers to
think of the other political and cultural ramifications of consumer culture.
Advertising is an incredibly adaptable discourse and, in the early part of the
twenty-first century, products increasingly appropriate resistance to consumption
and define themselves in terms of “commodity activism”: through the
purchase and support of particular products such as fair trade coffee or the
hybrid electric car, consumers feel that they have made ethical and responsible
purchases that contribute to social change. Chapter 11 looks at how Dove, a
brand deeply connected to the beauty industry, repositioned itself as a socially
responsible company whose array of products reflected a new “anti-beauty”
beauty campaign that tied purchasing a product to female empowerment.
Our last case history in Chapter 12 identifies the new level in which products
and consumers establish some sort of close and affective bond in the era
of online culture. One of the interesting developments in the twenty-first
century has been the encouragement of consumer-generated online content.
The array of videos on YouTube reflect this self-generation; but they also identify
how products and services have insinuated themselves into the forms of
communication and exchange that are part of Web 2.0. This new variation of
advertising, promotion, and consumer culture has fostered a culture of prosumption,
where consumers are simultaneously producers of media content.
Our case history of the YouTube webseries Annoying Orange explores both the
monetization and activation of online “prosumer” structures to demonstrate
10 Advertising and Promotional Culture
how advertising has adapted to our shifting attention economy in the digital
age in ways that work in the service of brands.
Through these 11 case histories that span from the mid-nineteenth century
to the present, Advertising and Promotional Culture: Case Histories illuminates
how advertising has adapted to changing cultural, political, economic,
and technological environments. Advertising simultaneously represents
constancy (in terms of how an enduring attention economy has defined consumer
culture since the nineteenth century) and change (in terms of how
13. advertising obsessively provides a discourse of the new and innovative). Each
case history can stand on its own in terms of how it helps reveal some major
aspect of advertising. Nonetheless, there is a strength in reading these case
histories in a connected way to help identify the recurring patterns and directions
in advertising. Whatever way you engage with the subsequent chapters,
these case histories will develop our understanding of how contemporary
consumer culture has functioned and flourished in a codependent way with
advertising’s sometimes bizarre, distracting, attracting, powerful, innocuous,
and alluring discourse.
To extend our work even further, we have made a concerted effort to pull
all of these various exemplifications, strands, and theories together in our
book’s Conclusion, as it ambitiously and perhaps provocatively identifies how
the particular and peculiar advertising and promotional pathways these case
histories have privileged now operate in contemporary culture. Here we reinforce
the four main themes that animated our case studies and provided a
link from past to present. We describe how individual chapters address each
of the following: how advertising imagines the future through the promise of
transformation, how tribalism/market segmentation creates a sense of collective
identity organized around a product, how advertising builds engagement
through participation/prosumption, and how the blurring of advertising,
news, art, education, and entertainment characterizes the attention economy.
All of these themes can be traced back to the origins of consumer culture, and
while they have adapted to accord with new technologies, they remain central
foci for understanding the contemporary milieu and future directions for
advertising. For both the advertising practitioner and the scholar of advertising,
we are hoping our case histories provide insight into the often overlooked
links between our past forms of advertising and promotion and what is often
perceived as our inchoate present moment.