Poll: Does advertising affect you ?

[morkinva]

Are you influenced by advertising? This includes Tv, radio, print, and outdoors. I think the total amount spent by advertisers is something in the neighborhood of 100 billion dollars (dr. evil eat your heart out).


edit>> the amount above is annual spending.

 

[NikPreviousAcct]

Very rarely. So no.

nik

 

[tweakmm]

I dont really watch TV, listen to the radio(simply because of all the damn commercials,I prefer a nice mix tape/CD) or pay attention to banner ads on websites

 

[Evadman]

Not really.

I'm thirsty. I need to quench my thirst without gimicks. I think I will have a sprite. 'scuze me, brb.

 

[geno]

No, it doesn't.... now, brb, heading to MickeyD's for a delicious, juicy, all beef Double Quarter-Pounder with cheese extra value meal, Super Sized!

 

[Wallydraigle]

Absolutely. When you think it doesn't the advertisers have done their job well.

 

[SinNisTeR]

almost never.. so no

 

[HappyPuppy]

No. I make a point of avoiding products based on their advertising. The more they advertise, the lower it goes on my list. This is especially so in regards to movies. The more a movie is hyped, the more I know it is going to blow.

 

[morkinva]

Haha -- you're right, apparently it's working because these folks believe they aren't influenced. May I say, respectfully, that you folks are deluding yourselves. Think about it -- 100 billion dolars, and they continue to spend it -- why? Because it works on the idiots and not you? Too funny !!

 

[BlueApple]

Of course it does, I don't see how it couldn't affect someone in todays society.

 

[Anubis]

you should make a choics that says advertising negivitly affects you. because personally i dont by anything that someone is trying to push on me. i buy what i want and thats it. i really dont think people go and buy things they randomally see on television. and along thoes liens some things dont need to be advertised. like tampons. we all know what they are and used for no need to show them on TV simple as that. theres a hole list of things like this but im not gonnaq go on buy i have to get back to work on my therotical physics paper. tthen im gonna get wasted cause physics is killing me

 

[Cyco]

In reality I believe that everybody is influenced by advertising although some may not know it. The only way you can't be affected by it is to never had been introduced to any media.
At least that's my 2c..and if you act now you too can have an opinion.
-Cyco-

 

[Ornery]

Are you using advertising interchangeably with marketing? I believe good marketing affects us all, even if only indirectly. Great marketing leaves competition in the dust, even if it's actually a better product. Pretty soon we all have less choice. We're all "affected" in the end.

 

[Spike]

hmmm, I think advertising helps me stay abreast (yes, I said a-BREAST) of what is currently availible but if I am going to buy something for myself I do research

 

[johneetrash]

it affects most people, if not everyone, subliminally. or so they say

 

[CrazyHelloDeli]

It only effects me when it somthing thats important to me. For instance, movie adds work on me if its a story that sounds interesting(LOTR for example). But things like beer adds have no effect on me, because I dont drink.

 

[morkinva]

I suppose I am using marketing and advertising interchangeably. So long as they are spending money to get you to buy.

I agree with Cyco, you cannot escape it. I think its the subliminal ones that get you... the ones you hear in the background while you're doing something else, the one you glance at on the highway but don't mentally process that are the most effective.

 

[N8Magic]

Yes.

It allows me to know when new products have been introduced on to the market. What I don't care for is when the same ad is aired EVERY commercial break. :|

 

[AreaCode707]

In terms of brand recognition, sometimes. If I'm buying something I'm unfamiliar with - not a big purchase, just something at the grocery store or something - I'm probably more apt to go for the name I recognize than otherwise, unless there's a significant price difference. Even with cars, the cars that most people will investigate buying are the ones they recognize.

 

[mithrandir2001]

Excessive advertising turns me off. Targetted advertising turns me off. I'm turned off to Pepsi because it is the beverage my generation is "supposed" to drink. Bah.

I'm a real buster, an advertiser's nightmare: I have lots of disposable income, but am well able to tune out advertising. I don't watch much TV and I only listen to noncommercial radio. I block out pop-up ads when I surf on the net. That's not to say that I am not product loyal - I am a Honda fanatic. But I did not become a Honda fan through advertising, but through product. Advertising is fluff and smoke-and-mirrors...I buy based on what's the best for my dollar.

 

[Sir Fredrick]

Almost anyone who voted no is a fool.

Do you drink pepsi, coke, or some generic soda? Most of you drink a well known, BRANDED soda. Not because it tastes better, though you probably THINK it does.

 

[toant103]

YES.

ehehe

 

[AdamDuritz99]

<< Very rarely. So no.

nik >>



Ditto!



<< Almost anyone who voted no is a fool.

Do you drink pepsi, coke, or some generic soda? Most of you drink a well known, BRANDED soda. Not because it tastes better, though you probably THINK it does. >>



I drink water. Sams Choice ususally. Occasionally Dr. Pepper, b/c it taste great. If you think imatation DrP taste the same, then your taste buds are tellling you a lie. Advertisment effects everybody once and a while, that's granted. But there are many of us peeps that are hardly ever effected. Why are we fools for that?


peace
sean

 

[b0mbrman]

Marginally, I'm sure I am...

 

[MikeO]

If by affecting you mean do I buy some product after (or because) I see it advertised, no it really does not affect me. I can't remember the last time I would have bought a product because of I saw the ad.

Yes I do occasionally drink Coca-Cola. Would I drink it if it weren't advertised at all? Yes. My other choices are Pepsi and Classic Cola (a local finnish product I believe) and both of those aren't as good as Coca-Cola, that's why I drink Coca-Cola, not because it's advertised.

For me it works the other way, more they push their products on me, less I want to buy them..




<< Haha -- you're right, apparently it's working because these folks believe they aren't influenced. May I say, respectfully, that you folks are deluding yourselves. >>



Care to explain how I'm deluding myself?



<< But there are many of us peeps that are hardly ever effected. Why are we fools for that >>



I don't get it either