Persuaders Video

First of all, I really really loved this video. I found everything about it interesting and helpful! I really the marketing and advertising field so I liked to see how the business is evolving. Certain parts that particularly grabbed my attention was how the evolution of technology has forced us to move ads in tv shows and movies. I thought, wow what if Starbucks could have only been so smart as to use their business in a tv show like Friends, it's genius. It's amazing how in the last 10 years, advertising has changed so much. I just overall really like this video.

As for Americans seeking some sort of identity through a brand, the video explains that there is a bigger and deeper meaning behind a product or a brand. Like Starbucks, they achieve the idea that Starbucks is a 3rd place, not home and not work. Also, marketers have studied why people join cults and then apply that to a brand. Like a certain identity that Harley Davidson riders have. What marketers do to try to persuade is just that, make their brand have a certain image or identity to them. They usually provide some kind of emotional appeal, or a bigi idea that most or all americans view as ideal, like the idea of love, happiness, health, beauty, etc.

According to the video, Axciom seems to have everyone's future figured out, and seems to have the solution as to how to get rid of clutter. My thoughts are that, if narrowcasting is working now, I dont see why it wont in the future. I think it's a very smart and advanced technique to targeting certain groups, and I guess I hope for advertisers that it will work. But just like the narrator says, we're all persuaders.