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Comparative Advertising Essay

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INTRODUCTION
Comparative Advertising is the bread and butter of modern advertising. It is a method of promoting one's product by bringing out the flaws of a particular competitive product. It aims at not attacking the product itself, but any competitive brand manufacturing the same product. The comparison can be on the basis of price and quality. If there is a comparison with regard to price, the cheaper rival will stress on that fact and try to bring to fact that the consumer is getting the similar product at a lesser price. The factor that the brand will bank on is the price.
On the other hand, if the comparison is made on the basis of quality, then automatically the brand will try to portray that the quality is far superior to the other brands. The basic criteria that has to be kept in mind is that the comparison has to be malicious and untrue. The statements made to promote one's product had to be false. It has to be for the claimant's good and not the defendant's.
Comparative Advertising, is basically a method adopted to promote one's product. It also stands to be negative advertisement for the other brand in question. The USA, UK and India have always had different approaches towards …show more content…

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