Wednesday, April 18, 2007

Internet Generation

With the explosion of Internet around 1994, each day there are more people living together with Internet. A coming generation is growing up with a new technology and, as we have seen in class, new habits and behavior patterns are being created. This allows companies to change the strategy of approaching the audience. Now, they react easily and quickly to Web-oriented advertisement and to those commercials with a high level of technologic information. The selected audience realize that the company is talking to them, and the response to the ad is positive. As an example, above there's a commercial made to force people stop smoking; as said before, the advertiser knows who is the part of the audience they want to target: young people that have just started smoking or that want to try it. Because they know these people have grown up with Internet, they have chosen this kind of artistic approach to reach them..Well done!

2 Comments:

Blogger Theresa said...

I agree, this ad is quite clever in demonstrating its message to its intended target audience. It is always interesting to see how advertisers adapt their ads to the web in order to reach their audiences through means and images they can relate to (i.e. the cigarette/loading image in that ad), or through popular websites that people frequently visit. The web’s ability to cater to every individual’s interests is beneficial for both users and advertisers because users can get the content they want and advertisers become less ‘annoying’ for users because ads are relevant to their interests.

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Blogger Tof said...

Internet is trully the best way to communicate nowaday (bigger, faster, stronger :)
The problem is now about credibility. Even if I spend much more time on the Internet than on others media (gathered), I am still more sensitive to "real" ads. It's not only because I don't have a full faith in Internet, but alos because when I'm on a page, I look to the content. Ads bore me, I close them, cut sound, block pop-ups, etc...
Being fun is not enough, the ad really has to be attractive to catch me (much more than on tv)

12:08 AM  

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