Marketing

[civver_764]

Can you tell me what these deceptive practices are? For example, if I design a video game box to show graphics that aren't in-game, is this a deceptive practice?

I can give you a few examples: The lightning fast recital of the "catch"/bad news at the end of many commercials. Or the marketing of unhealthy products to children who don't know any better. Or the psychological abuse in ads where they imply that you're a worse person without their product.

But really it's whole idea behind marketing that bugs me. The intent is to sell a product at all costs, not to inform somebody of something. I guess though it's a natural by-product of our economic system, which I have many problems with. So I probably shouldn't expect it to go away any time soon. Nevertheless I still don't understand why people don't think badly of companies that are clearly misleading them.

 

[Borachio]

There's this on junk food marketing to children.

Marketers spend billions attracting kids to junk food they hope will become a lifelong brand attachment

In 2006, food companies spent $1.6 billion marketing products -- mostly soda, fast food and cereal -- to kids. That same year, fast food restaurants sold more than 1.2 billion kids' meals with toys.

 

[Quackers]

Whats wrong with eating a macdonalds once in a while? Lemme eat what i want food police!

 

[_random_]

Please tell me how I can get adblock!

Chrome

Firefox

Just be sure to disable it for http://www.landgrantholyland.com/

 

[Zelig]

Chrome

Firefox

Just be sure to disable it for http://www.landgrantholyland.com/

Opera

Internet Explorer

System-wide

 

[Glassfan]

Chrome

Thanks a bunch.

 

[Borachio]

Opera

Yeah, thanks. But does it work?

edit: yup. seems to. But now who pays for this CFC site?

 

[rugbyLEAGUEfan]

Whats wrong with eating a macdonalds once in a while? Lemme eat what i want food police!

Once in a while is not the problem and besides, Who's stopping you? The non-existent food police? Just because you can buy it doesn't mean Maccas should be able to promote their crap as healthy and it doesn't mean that concerned citizens can't discourage it's consumption, especially by kids.

Damn you Quackers, now I could smash a double cheesy and a sundae....

 

[Borachio]

http://www.newstatesman.com/2011/09/children-advertising-ban
Advertising aimed at children is particularly insidious, imo. Why do advertizers do this, when children don't have their own funds? The answer would seem to be pester power.

Sweden banned advertising on TV directed at children in 1991.

 

[rugbyLEAGUEfan]

http://www.newstatesman.com/2011/09/children-advertising-ban
Advertising aimed at children is particularly insidious, imo. Why do advertizers do this, when children don't have their own funds? The answer would seem to be pester power.

Sweden banned advertising on TV directed at children in 1991.

I'd imagine pester power to be doubly strong in the UK given that the alternative is essentially a turnip and pie based diet.

 

[Borachio]

I've moved on to celeriac now! And ratatouille.