As I continue to sift through countless site on the web about advertising, I came across one that particularly interested me. Wonder Cafe, a site based out of Canada, is all about religion. As my blog continually discusses controvresial advertising, this site is particularly fitting. Wonder Cafe has developed and advertising campaign that is intended [...]
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When Religion Meets Advertising
April 10, 2007Dove’s Campaign for Real Beauty
March 22, 2007Back in early February, I posted about the portrayal of women in the media. At that time, I had heard of Dove’s Campaign for Real Beauty, but knew very little about it. Sure, I had seen the commercials of women “loving the skin their in,” but when someone posted a comment on my blog about [...]
Diesel Ad Campaign
February 8, 2007In attempt to grasp viewer’s attention, advertisers often push the limits on sexuality. On the same wave-length as my last post about women in the media, beauty, or sex, sells. It is as simple as that. Researchers today argue that the average American is exposed to around 3,000 advertisements each day. For an advertisement be [...]
Portrayal of Women in the Media
February 7, 2007Everywhere we turn, advertising is telling people, women especially, what it means to be desirable. Many of these messages share a common theme: women must be “beautiful.”. Women have always been measured against cultural ideals of beauty, but advertising often uses sexism to make images of “ideal beauty” more prevalent and increasingly unattainable. Twenty years [...]
Another Opinion About the Superbowl
February 7, 2007Ok, so I’ll have one last post about the commericals in the Superbowl. As I was looking at some other blog posts about the commercials, I found some rather disappointed viewers. One particular blogger put a lot of energy into saying how bad the commercials were this year. I thought a lot of them were [...]
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