This document analyzes various advertisements and identifies the propaganda techniques they employ to promote their products. McDonald's advertisement uses bandwagon propaganda to convince people to join the billions of other customers. Coca-Cola's slogan employs glittering generalities to make people feel Coke will make things better without specifics. Burger King's advertisement uses card stacking by only highlighting some favorable stats about their fries. The pomegranate juice ad uses loaded words to imply the product can help people "cheat death." Finally, the popchips ad features a testimonial from Katy Perry implying the chips won't cause weight gain.
This document analyzes various advertisements and identifies the propaganda techniques they employ to promote their products. McDonald's advertisement uses bandwagon propaganda to convince people to join the billions of other customers. Coca-Cola's slogan employs glittering generalities to make people feel Coke will make things better without specifics. Burger King's advertisement uses card stacking by only highlighting some favorable stats about their fries. The pomegranate juice ad uses loaded words to imply the product can help people "cheat death." Finally, the popchips ad features a testimonial from Katy Perry implying the chips won't cause weight gain.
This document analyzes various advertisements and identifies the propaganda techniques they employ to promote their products. McDonald's advertisement uses bandwagon propaganda to convince people to join the billions of other customers. Coca-Cola's slogan employs glittering generalities to make people feel Coke will make things better without specifics. Burger King's advertisement uses card stacking by only highlighting some favorable stats about their fries. The pomegranate juice ad uses loaded words to imply the product can help people "cheat death." Finally, the popchips ad features a testimonial from Katy Perry implying the chips won't cause weight gain.
Words or Product/Idea Propaganda Phrases Used to Intention Advertised Technique Convince
Its main purpose is to tell
potential customers that they need to join the 99 “McDonald’s, over McDonald’s Bandwagon billion customers that 99 billion served” have embraced the brand and the associated products.
The poster gives the most
attention to the red bold circle that has “Drink Coca Cola” written. In a way, it seems the advertisement is giving a subtle command to make us drink Coca Cola.The slogan of this poster “Drink Coca Cola” Glittering “things go better with Coca Cola “things go better Generalities Coke” uses the loaded with Coke” word “better” to make people strongly feel the desire to buy the product. The slogan makes a promise that doesn’t tell us anything, and uses the word “better” as it has no specific meaning but only sounds good. With facts and figures, this advertisement looks rather pleasing with numerous statistics about the Burger King Satisfries. However, the three statistics are the only ones bolded with a bigger white font, as it is hard to read the actual and relevant facts about the fries. The crispy looking fries makes the viewers hungry to eat the fries right at the moment when they see the advertisement. The Burger King “Big Taste, Less Card Stacking advertisement uses Satisfries Fat” loaded words like less and big to only show the big and huge idea. They do not tell us how “big” the taste actually is. Although in the poster it says that there is “40% less fat” and “30% less calories,” there might be a hidden unhealthy factor that makes the big taste. This propaganda uses card stacking by leaving out details, presenting only some parts of truth and showing only the benefits of the Satisfries.
On the poster there are
the words “Cheat Death”. They are the only words that are bolded, meaning Pomegranate the advertiser wants the Loaded Words “Cheat Death” Juice customers to receive the message clearly that people who drink the pomegranate juice would be able to live longer. The popchips company used the famous singer Katy Perry as the person to be on the popchips advertisement poster since 2012. Katy Perry also had a chance to make her own flavored popchips. The small letters under the big title on the poster shows a quote from Katy Perry, saying “I curl popchips straight to my lips, good thing they don’t go straight to my hips.” This quote can show how popchips might be targeting people who are obsessed with their weight and appearance “I curl popchips because the quote includes “they don’t go straight to my lips, straight to my hips” which Popchips Testimonial good thing they suggests that your hips don’t go straight to won’t look fat. The quote my hips.” from Katy Perry and the picture of her showing her belly and hip can give an idea to the audience how even though people eat the popchips, people would not get fat. The title of the poster, “love. without the handles” and the pose of Katy Perry can show people’s muscles will stay the same even though they eat popchips. Katy Perry’s pose looks like she is exercising with popchips and the second sentence of the title, “without the handles” can directly show the viewers that popchips does not make people obese.