Sunday, May 4, 2008

Emotions in Advertising

"Advertising is an art of manipulating the emotions of the people".
Products have rationales, brands have emotionales. This was one of the most important learning that I had during my post-graduation. Thanks Sumit!!, for putting this into my head.
Unfortunately, most people do not differentiate between a brand and a product. What is fastrack selling? Watches, accessories....no. Fastrack is selling fashion.
What is the brand Reliance all about? It's about ambitions and dreams. Tata is selling trust, volvo is selling safety.
Advertisers, apart from being creative, are the experts in exploting these emotions of human beings. Advertisers know that selling a product to the consumers is difficult but selling emotions is not. Remember Hutch (Vodafone) pug!!

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

I completely agree.. with the increasing clutter in the marketspace and the cut-throat competition among various brands..the one which rules the head of the consumers would emerge victorious.

Sampada said...

Donno much about the ad-world..but as a consumer, i agree that selling emotions is what works nowadays...i bought a Titan because it personifies style (even Rani can look stylish wearing a raga..ha!)..salt means Tata as it is desh ka namak..a complete man would always wear Raymonds (to hell with the quality - that is never mentioned)..and so on..

Anonymous said...

Sumit Roy zindabad :)

Anonymous said...

Great work.