Let's Talk Advertising!

About me: Tuan Nguyen - I was a quiet kid in high school, sticking to my core group of friends, putting video games before school every day of the week. When my glory days of H...

Say no to the cartoon violence effectively - Since 1950s, watching cartoons in televisions has started to become normal in the daily life of children. The great popularity of cartoons made some schol...

Lost Blog ix - a reflection - I really wanted to take this class to see how it could apply to graphic design, as I am majoring in design studies. Unfortunately, life gave me a rough ti...

- Since the class is over I thought that I would write one last blog because I dont know if i had missed any. I feel that i am walking away from this class a...

Reflection - This class was, despite my preconceptions, a lot of fun. I learned a lot about how advertising actually works and how advertisers think in order to get the...

Typewriter Nostalgia Campaign - For our advertising plan, we decided to focus on attracting the younger generation by advertising the product at places where our generation like to do the...

Reflection - This class has definitely opened my eyes regarding my surroundings. I have learned about the bias in our media and how to avoid it and not be sucked in by ...

Reflective Blog - Adv 91: This has been the most informative class I have ever taken on a topic that I am truly intrigued by, advertising. I have taken classes that have obv...

Tobelrone - Our group decided 3 social media networks to use to make a campaign for Tobelrone chocolate. We based our campaign around the christmas holiday season. We ...

Creative Advertising. - I really like seeing creative advertising because it shows that they put more effort into getting the consumers attention. Instead of following everyone el...

A Day in the Life of Laura - It's 2:30 pm on a Wednesday Laura, a mother of three has just finished grocery shopping and is beginning to unpack the large brown paper bags. She unpacks ...

Toblermany - For our Toblerone campaign we chose to use 3 significantly different forms of media. We wanted to focus on a contest that involved people submitting entrie...

Interruptive Advertising - To me interruptive advertising is just annoying. I hate when I am about to watch a YouTube video and I have to watch a 20 second advertisement ab...

Creativity in advertising - Creative advertisements become very persuasive due to the fact the you the consumer or viewer of the brand remember what you saw in the ad. It is normally ...

Interruptive Advertising - Advertising surrounds every aspect of our daily lives. There is not a split second throughout our daily routine in which we are not in the presence of some...

Gender Neutral Playhouse - The commercial shown in class about pink flowery playhouse was awful. It was stereotypical and radiated a message that girls should all stay in the kitc...

Jeep Commercial - The focus group for this Jeep was for adults about 50 years of age. In the commercial, a man about 65 years of age pulls into his son's home and gets out o...

Jeep For Seniors - For the Jeep Campaign workshop, I have decided to use Jeep Patriot as the model to advertise for seniors. The reason I chose the Patriot was because th...

Extra Credit- Ethics - The topic of this presentation was ethics in advertising. I was not sure of what to expect, but I was pleasantly surprised. One speaker began by explaining...

Harley Davidson: A brand community - 1. Do you believe brand communities like Harley-Davidson result in greater involvement with the brand? I do. I think that Harley-Davidson has successfully o...

Creative Advertising - With all the outlets of media we have today, there are so many creative advertisements to keep our short attention span entertained. The iPhone ads, althou...

Rose Petal Cottage remake - In class we watched a commercial about the Rose Petal cottage/playhouse product which is meant for girls only. This advertisement had visible stereotypes a...

The Future - As far as the future of Advertising, I see a burst of creativity and a great use of social media! As discussed in class, social media campaigns rely on shar...

Toblerone Campaign - Toblerone has these weird triangle shaped pieces that look funny in your mouth. So that was our instant idea. Our idea is to focus around the holidays...

Interruptive Advertising - Advertising is constantly interrupting our lives it feels like, but is it really being interruptive or is it simply a part of life we don’t always want to...

Effective or Annoying? - Interruptive Advertising used to be one of the most effective but it that still the case or does everyone just think its annoying? When we are listening to ...

Toblerone Campaign - For our Toblerone campaign we decided to use three mainstream forms of media: Pinterest, Facebook, and Youtube. For Pinterest we wanted our consumers to ...

creative new ways to advertise - There are many ways to make a brand stand out. You can create a very flashy ad that grabs people's attention from being so showy or you can make your ad be...

Update, Tweet, Blog, Repeat - Blogging right now I realize that this wouldn’t have been as easily possible a mere 10 years ago. Thanks to this blog site and other sites l...

Reflections on my thoughts in Adv91 - I really enjoyed this class overall because I learned the many different methods of advertising and how it can appeal to certain audiences. The presentatio...

Toblerone Campaign - Life is salty and sweet. Why not enjoy it at the same time. For our target audience of 20-30 year olds who enjoy cooking our campaign was centered arou...

Salty, Sweet, and User-Oriented - For Toblerone's new Crunchy Salted Almond chocolate, we created a social media campaign that emphasizes the dual flavors: salty and sweet. We decided o...

Consumer Behavior in Harley Davidson brand - q1. I do believe that the sense of community creates a deeper involvement in the brand; for one it is the motorcycle that unites the riders. Its the brand ...

Toblerone Promotional Ideas - The Toblethon  Toblerone is a great company that produces high-quality chocolate. We were asked to come up with a few things that we could use as promot...

Consumers love APPLE - Apple products are one of the many things in this world that consumers "have to have." People are addicted to the feeling of being the first person to have...

Social Media and its' future - Social Media today is becoming everyone's main source of contacting each other and sharing information. It lets you connect with so many people at lightn...

Toblerone Chocolate - Toblerone Chocolate Toblerone wants to step up in the social media aspect of marketing, and they put me and my group in charge. We wanted to create someth...

Toblerone - Our mission was to create a social media campaign for Toblerone aimed at young, cool, childless bay area people. And to answer Peter Griffin's question "i...

Workshop: Toblerone - This group, we made a social media campaign aimed at promoting the Toblerone candy. We are tasked with making a social media advertising campaign which...

NOSTALGIA MARKETING - Nostalgia marketing is a great strategy to use when wanting to appeal to your cutovers on a deeper level. Nostalgia allows marketers to dig deep into one...

Toblerone Campaign: #TobleroneArt - Social media is probably the most powerful tool brands can use to engage with their consumers. For our last in-class workshop, my group and I needed to dev...

Toblerone - During class we discussed how to advertise the new Toblerone Almond Chocolate to an audience using social media outlets. My group decided to start the a...

Social Media's Future - Believe it or not, I remember the days when I would not be able to use the internet because my mom was waiting for a phone call, the days when internet ac...

Consumer Behavior - In America, fitness exercises such as Yoga and Pilates are famous and popular; in addition, Billy's Boot Camp, military style exercise, also became popular...

Tolberone Holiday Campaign - Our group decided to use Facebook and Instagram for hosting a competition. The competition would be to take photos or videos of 'sweet and salty' moments t...

Toblerone - Toblerone is one of the worst candies on the market, but today in class we had to come up with a social media campaign to get our consumers involved. Speci...

The Future of Advertising - For most of the 20th century, brands primarily utilized print ads and television commercials to advertise to their consumers. Advertising has always...

Social Media - Social Media is today's way of spreading information like wildfire. The instant something is posted everyone knows about it. The public finds out about t...

Toblerone Campaign - For the toblerone campaign, my team decided that we should use instagram, Facebook, and YouTube for social media to create a holiday campaign for toblerone...

Toblerone Campaign - For the toblerone campaign, me and my team decided that we could use twitter, Instagram, and YouTube for social media to help attract our target audience t...

18- Toblerone (Workshop) - During group discussion, we discussed the history behind Toblerone and the significance of their logo. As it turns out, their logo reveals a bear on the ...

Interruptive Advertising - I detest watching shows on television sometimes. Commercials are okay and allow for bathroom breaks or to grab a quick snack in between. But when there's o...

Toblerone Social Media Challenge - To engage career-minded and college-graduated city dwellers, we chose Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook as our three main media channels. We wanted to cr...

Interruptive Advertisement - Interruption marketing is considered as an interruption of the consumer’s activities. This means that the consumer gets informed about products and servi...

Toblerone - Our group was assigned to create a campaign for Toblerone chocolate using 3 different social media channels. We wanted to focus on a campaign that is mor...

Toblerone: Bear in mind. - I attended the MAZE event at the beginning of this semester where I learned about the story of Toblerone. I never noticed that there was a bear in the logo...

#teamtoblerone - For the group assignment, we were assigned to create a campaign for Toblerone, that familiar triangular swiss chocolate with honey and almond nougat candy...

Toblerone Chocolate - My groups social media campaign is called "Tablerone Holidays". We decided that using pinterest, facebook and twitter would be the best for our campaign...

#TobleroneHolidays - Our groups latest workshop was focussed on the Toblerone chocolate bar. We were asked to create a social media campaign that targeted upper class and soph...

semiotic analysis - A simple yet profound commercial from Nike. In this ad we have a young, husky guy jogging down an open road.. What this commercial connotes is the idea ...

"Dietmar Dahmen" - Dietmar Dahmen was an awesome speaker/presenter. I had never seen anyone so active while doing a presentation. He sets a good model to how a presenter...

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