Motion: “Advertising should be banned”
Advertising is present in our lives. Normally, we are not aware but we are influenced by it all the time. Advertisers know exactly what to do to attract our attention. We have a tendency to buy products that are well- known because we think they are top-quality products, although sometimes there are better ones with no well-known brand.
I think it would be very difficult to ban advertising, because it is a big business. People should know that what adverts say is not always true, companies are doing their best to sell their products so they will present them as the best of the world. We have to know what we really need and what we can afford, although sometimes it is difficult to control because of the mechanisms companies use. It is the case of emotional marketing: when people see certain colours, they can change their emotions or can symbolize things related to the colours. So in short, advertising plays with our emotions. This is why I think it should be banned. Adverts should be only a way to make us aware of the existence of a new product. What do you think??
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I have written in the motion “are women fashion victims?” about an article I have recently read.
The article is about the way our brain works with some very well-known brands. Human brain has a small part that makes us want to have things with those names on it. It doesn´t matter what, we just want them. And if we can´t afford them, we look for something smaller or insignificant. For us it´s a pleasure to be able to say “I have a Versace belt” or “I have just bought the new Moschino whatever”.
According to this theory, advertising is the way those companies have to influence and make us buy their products.
But banning wouldn´t be the solution. Maybe the way of advertising or the huge amount of adverts should be controlled
I agree with the idea that adverts should only be a way to make us aware of the existence of a new product,because it is not fair that some supermarkets simulate the smell of fresh bread to make you buy or the fact that some products such as chocolates or candies are at the eye-level or near the cash,but the thing is how can we ban adverts?Big companies would win,we are just pieces of their play.
That’s a very radical idea! I don’t think they should be banned, but their use should be reduced. Governments must establish a limit or it could become a problem.
In spite of what I said, it’s also people’s fault. We should be able to recognise that brands are just that, brands.
I think that banning advertising could be a good idea. If you want to know about a product existence, just go to the shop and try it. In my opinion thats better than been so influenced by people who only want to make money.
From my point of view, advertising shouldn´t be banned.This world moves a lot of money and as you can see, all is influenced by this type of publicity. For instance, football players earn a lot of money for put on a tshirt with the logo of adidas or another brand, and this happens in all sports.
Yes, advertisement make us aware of the existence of a new product, the advantages of the product, what is it and more. If advertisement didn´t exist, we couldn´t choose the best for us.I mean, I am not referring to brands in clothes, I am referring to the different mobile phone companies for example. We have all the information about them because advertisement exists, so we can choose what is best for us.
How hypocrite we are! Advertising shouldn’t be banned! We know about products because they are advertised, and we buy “quickly” because we know that we want to buy that famous brand! Imagine our lives if we will have to look every of the products in a shop!
I agree advertising shouldn’t be banned, but it must be under more strict control. I have heard about some ads that were retired because they were considered sexist and reflected a degrading image of women. But no one has noticed about the ads of children toys; when I watch them in the TV I always go really mad. They are very sexist: cars and action-man for boys, and barbies and small kitchens for girls. I can’t understand why there is so little control about this thing. Advertising not only plays with our emotions, it also plays with our education
About what GOOSE said, why are you defending advertising if you think that it is so bad? An advert is creted only for selling a product, not for educating children. In my opinion what you said is a point in favour to ban advertising.
Banning advertising is a hard decision for governments because of the huge power that companies have. If governments had to ban them I think they couldn’t do that. Companies put a great pressure on them.
Nevertheless, most people don’t complain about advertising. Actually, most of the times they don’t mind about them, so there’s no reason to forbid them.
I think that advertising should’t be banned. With the ads they are just letting us know which the products that are in the market are. You should be able to think for yourself if you want to buy the product or not. I’m not going to buy a product that i don’t want just because I’ve seen an advertisment, if I buy the product is because I’ve seen the publicity and I think that is the best one for me, but if there’s another similar product that has not so many puclicity and I think that is better than other that I’ve seen on TV or wathever I’would buy that one. People should’t let adverts influence them and should take their own decision and not just buying something because it’s suppose that it’s cool.
The problem is that an advert not only tells you that the product exist. It also tries to manitulate you, and maybe you don’t realise it. For example subliminal advertising, which has been banned, don’t give you any option to think if you want to buy or not, it just makes you feel that you need the product.
I don’t know if advertising must be banned but they have to be more careful about how they treat the different topics that they try to show to the public. Some publicity campaigns, as the Dolce & Gabanna ones, are too polemical because in some of their adverts scorn women or children. Then, they have lots of judgements.
Apart from that, adverts are related with being or not a fashion victim because they appeared on TV and they try to convince us to go to buy as if we were machines with subliminal and not subliminal messages.
Governments have to create stricter regulations in order to avoid the manipulation, the sexism and the racism.
Advertising shouldn´t be banned. First of all, you CAN’T do that, nowadays is a very important business that can not be deleted suddenly.
Secondly, you don’t NEED to ban them. This is here where we have a good and practical example or why Art classes are important: learning to read a picture/a movie/an advert… or whatever other kind of image (and what those images want to say), we will be prepared enough to choose the best option in our life as consumers, don’t worrying about the fashion brands.
It’s not true that advertisings can’t be banned as Pollock said. I often watch on TV some shocking campaign which talks about a difficult topic, such as anorexia, kids and violence…that are finally banned by justice because it can hurts the sensibility of a collective of people. It’s not so strange to find cases like that nowadays. In fact, this is the target of these types of campaigns. Make the more noise they can to be more and more notorious until their 15 minutes of glory were up.
But, this is not the general rule. There are many others advertising on TV that only show us the brand they are going to sell, and that’s all. In these cases, I think that the amount of information we have about new products should be decreased in order to watch a film without many blocks of publicity that are usually larger than the film itself if you watch them continuously. And, if you like watching TV commercials on TV, you can also watch thematic TV channels which talk 24 hours a day about advertisings in a weird and funny way. It could be sometimes more interesting than watch a comedy on TV, don’t you think so?
Why banning advertising? The main thing is that peope must be aware of what they actually buy or see.They must choose among the great variety of products taking into account the quality and not the marketing. A part from that, what about for instance sport teams, charity organisations who depends on the investement of advertising?