Marketing Communication Mix ADVERTISING SALES PROMOTION PERSONAL SELLING PUBLIC RELATIONS DIRECT MARKETING SPONSORSHIP ON-LINE MC What is advertising? The paid form of impersonal presentation. The advertising is a persuasive process by which the users of products are sought through communication media. CREATIVE. SIMPLE. INTERESTING. GOOD APPEALS-SUITABLE MEDIA x TARGET GROUP. THE LESS - THE BETTER Selected specific forms of advertising: cooperative advertising, social advertising, indoor advertising, subliminal advertising. Cooperative advertising Indoor advertising • Advertising located in public covered territory (trains, planes, public transport, shopping centers, consulting rooms, ...) r Subliminal advertising • Subliminal stimuli = "below threshold", are any sensory stimuli below an individual's threshold for conscious perception. • Visual stimuli may be quickly flashed before an individual can process them, or flashed and then masked. Audio stimuli may be played below audible volumes, masked by other stimuli. • Some research has found that subliminal messages do not produce strong or lasting changes in behavior X a recent review of functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) studies shows that subliminal stimuli activate specific regions of the brain despite participants being unaware. r Subliminal advertising The advertising industry has been accused of many things over the years. Among them, witchcraft. Whether it s called "subliminal advertising" or "hidden persuasionr the gist of the accusation is always the same. Advertisers are charged with sneaking seductive little pictures into their ads. Its daimea that these pictures can somehow get you to buy a product without your even seeing them. Consider the photograph above. According to some pe