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Advertising Appeals and Executions
(George E. Belch & Michael A.Belch)
Novrita Widiyastuti, S.Sos
Advertising Appeal
• The advertising appeal refers to the approach used to
attract the attention of consumers and/or to influence
their feelings toward the product, service, or cause.
• An advertising appeal can also be viewed as
“something that moves people, speaks to their wants
or needs, and excites their interest.”
• Hundreds of different appeals can be used as the basis
for advertising messages. At the broadest level, these
approaches are generally broken into two categories:
informational/rational appeals and emotional appeals.
Informational/rational appeals
• Informational/rational appeals focus on the
consumer’s practical, functional, or utilitarian
need for the product or service and emphasize
features of a product or service and/or the
benefits or reasons for owning or using a
particular brand.
• The content of these messages emphasizes
facts, learning, and the logic of persuasion.
Emotional appeals
• Emotional appeals relate to the customers’
social and/or psychological needs for
purchasing a product or service. Many
consumers’ motives for their purchase
decisions are emotional, and their feelings
about a brand can be more important than
knowledge of its features or attributes.
Advertising Execution
• Straight sell or factual
message
• Scientific/technical
evidence
• Demostration
• Comparison
• Testimonial
• Slice of life
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Animation
Personality symbol
Fantasy
Dramatization
Humor
Combinations
Advertising Execution
• Straight Sell or Factual Message: this type of ad relies on a
straightforward presentation of information concerning the
product or service. This execution is often used with
informational/rational appeals, where the focus of the
message is the product or service and its specific attributes
and/or benefits.
• Scientific/Technical Evidence: Advertisers often cite
technical information, results of scientific or laboratory
studies, or endorsements by scientific bodies or agencies to
support their advertising claims
• Demonstration advertising is designed to illustrate the key
advantages of the product/service by showing it in actual
use or in some staged situation.
Advertising Execution
• The comparison execution approach is increasingly popular
among advertisers, since it offers a direct way of
communicating a brand’s particular advantage over its
competitors or positioning a new or lesser known brand
with industry leaders.
• Testimonial: where a person praises the product or service
on the basis of his or her personal experience with it.
Testimonial executions can have ordinary satisfied
customers discuss their own experiences with the brand
and the benefits of using it.
• Slice of Life: This type of ad portrays a problem or conflict
that consumers might face in their daily lives. The ad then
shows how the advertiser’s product or service can resolve
the problem.
Advertising Execution
• Animated scenes are drawn by artists or created on
the computer, and cartoons, puppets, or other types of
fictional characters may be used.
• Personality symbol: developing a central character or
personality symbol that can deliver the advertising
message and with which the product or service can be
identified.
• Fantasy executions are particularly well suited for
television, as the commercial can become a 30-second
escape for the viewer into another lifestyle. The
product or service becomes a central part of the
situation created by the advertiser
Advertising Execution
• Dramatization: where the focus is on telling a short story
with the product or service as the star. Dramatization is
somewhat akin to slice-of-life execution in that it often
relies on the problem/solution approach, but it uses more
excitement and suspense in telling the story.
• Combination: many of the execution techniques can be
combined to present the advertising message. For example,
animation is often used to create personality symbols or
present a fantasy. Slice-of-life ads are often used to
demonstrate a product or service. Comparisons are
sometimes made using a humorous approach.
• Humor