Characteristics

MASS COMMUNICATION ECM 4(1+3)

Lesson 13: Advertising

Characteristics

  • Advertising has been the tool of businessmen for centuries, to assist them in selling of their goods.
  • Advertising is dynamic. It changes with changing markets, changing life styles, changing methods of distribution and changing techniques of communication.
  • Advertising has grown into an institution performing essential social and economic functions.
  • Advertising communicates about a wide range of choices and facilitates the selection process.
  • Advertising also contributes substantially to consumer education.
  • The audience’s predispositions, their attitudes, beliefs, motives, and values largely determine the media they select.
  • Advertising as a medium is used for creating awareness about social problems.
  • Advertising campaigns by government and social organization dealing with importance of literacy, adult education, drug abuse, family planning etc.
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