Ulta Beauty Magazine Advertisement Analysis

Bus 130 Project

Marketing is a social and managerial process by which individuals and groups obtain what they need and want through creating and exchanging products and value with others. One of the key steps of marketing is being able to identify and classify the potential market through different segmentation such as through demographic, geographic, psychographic, etc. The basis for segmentation of the Ulta Beauty magazine advertisement is clearly shown to be a combination of different categories. First, the advertisement is segmented psychographically. A psychographic segmentation approach involves an understanding of consumer’s lifestyle, interests, and opinions. Ulta Beauty’s was able to understands that many of their consumers would

Although Ulta Beauty’s is a beauty supply stores that carries all-ages makeup and hair products, their advertisement that is filled with fun fonts and bright colors scheme often attract millennials into viewing their magazine Since millennials have one of the highest purchasing power with the sum of $733 billion dollars, it became many companies’ specific target market such as Ulta. Despite Ulta’s artistic graphic aspects of the advertisements, the advertisement itself targets many millennials due to its captivating word choices such as “most loved brands” or “sale”. Millennials are like other generations, because we are always looking for values. We want to be part of the exclusive sale and get the exclusive

This became their way of offering a value proposition that will help differentiated from other companies. Any returning customers or members of Ulta’s loyalty program, are often rewarded with exclusive offers and points for purchases made at Ulta’s Beauty Stores and on Ulta.com (Ulta.com). This allows Ulta to have a competitive advantage against other beauty supply companies. A competitive advantage is an advantage over competitors gained by offering greater customer value, either by having lower prices or providing more benefits that justify higher prices. Ulta’s coupon discounts, became a way for the company to promote multiple benefits that are affordable and sometimes distinctive. Ulta’s winning value proposition is by offering the same for less, which is offering similar products at a much reduced