Blog # 6

What do you think? Discuss product placement in TV shows and movies as an effective/ineffective means of advertising, especially to teenagers.

Well i thought it was interesting, don't really want to buy a drill but i think that it could end up being more effective if people did advertisements like that because you don't really know you are being advertised to. It is a blinding thing, without even thinking about it they are advertising to you. normally in a commercial you know they are so you don't listen or you turn it off, but if it is presented to you like that then you are already watching and you don't really look at it like an advertisement. i think if they put it in certain shows and things teenagers would want anyways many of them would want to buy it, so i think it would be effective.

Blog # 5

We are discussing magazine ads and commercials in class, but not the ads found online....As you spend time online--checking your email, looking at Facebook/MySpace, randomly surfing the web--observe the ads on various sites. What do you notice about the different types of ads? How do these differ from print/TV ads? How are they either more or less effective than the more traditional ads that we're analyzing in class. Blog about your observations!

As i was checking my email i noticed that there were many ads on things that are shown on tv. i got many car ads, also lots about new shows and things that are going on with celeberties. they are different from tv. ads because most tv. ads show products that are trying to be sold plus new shows that are on. they become very repetitive and people just end up muteing them or not watching them. i think that ads that are shown on the internet are more effective because you see them and they look interesting and you might want to see more, but if they are on tv. people usually just mute it without even thinking about it and so if you see something interesting online you look at it, but if on tv. and muted you totally just miss it. i think that internet ads are more effective.