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James B. Twitchell's 20 Ads That Shook The World

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According to James B. Twitchell’s, “20 Ads that Shook the World,” advertisers will situate their campaign around special events like the Super Bowl or holidays like Easter. This grants companies the opportunity to market their products, increase revenue, and target their audience’s imagination. Anthropologists would refer to this strategy as syncretism, or “…the merging… of two or more categories in a specified environment into one…” (Dictionary.com 1). With a decrease in sales during the winter months, Coca-Cola created the Santa Claus that we still know and love today, and is recognized as one of the most groundbreaking advertisements that changed the world. In 1822, Clement Clark Moore was the first person to establish the idea of Santa Claus when he wrote his daughters a poem called “The Night Before Christmas.” Moore depicted Santa to look an elf-like …show more content…

He was crafted onto Hallmark cards and also was the Santa that was seen in The Santa Claus with Tim Allen and the Miracle on 34th Street. Similarly, people dress up in costume as this form of Santa in department stores, and he even became a representative for the Salvation Army. Additionally, Gene Autry sang “Here Comes Santa Claus” which also later sparked the production of reindeers into the Christmas scene too. In conclusion, Coca-Cola’s Santa Claus basically preserved and shaped the image of Christmas that still exists today. This advertisement complimented the brand because it is the type of campaign that can be slightly modified, but still be used each year during the holiday season. Likewise, with the help of these advertisements being displayed every year, consumers will make the nostalgic connection between the joy of Christmas time, the importance of giving, and the happiness that Coke can bring to anyone of any

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The little girl is the focal point and driving point of the ad bring forth each event from asking her mother about the cereal to putting the cereal on her father’s chest; its all about her actions and reactions from the that push the point of the ad identified later with the word love being displayed in bold. The camera is always following the little girl and emphasizing her emotional response to all that happens from her look of curiosity to her big grin as she runs off out of the scene. Without her there is no ad because she is the part of family that people love the most. That unconditional love without any need for understanding or reason, and the audience’s recognition of this is what the advertisers wanted. According to Matt Rosenau (2012), advertisers draw on the emotional response of their audience purposely creating an emotional appeal and associating a positive emotion to the product even if not naturally associated.

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