A Consumer Eyes

Hello Internet and Readers,


This post is mainly to talk about what I see around me for ads, how often I see them and how I feel about advertising in general.

As a Marketing and Advertising student I love what advertising is and what it has become over the decades. But I haven't always felt that. As a young adult living in the city I am forced into the world of advertising and have grown up around it. I always felt that advertising has been corrupting me into buying peoples product and affecting my decisions I didn't necessarily hate it but I just thought nothing of it didn't care and didn't want to succumb to their brand/product. But as years went on and living in the city I found them really cool and how they would promote themselves in different ways and learned that it really is everywhere you go. You cannot escape advertising and that's not a bad thing. Now a days when I see an advertisement I judge it thinking to myself how are you going to get me interested in your brand/product I start to accept it. This is the reason for me wanting to get into the industry. 

Living in the city I have seen countless and countless advertisements. For those of you who do not live in the city its hard to explain how many I see but for you who do I'm pretty sure you know how I feel. Now I have traveled outside of the city and seen more rural and suburban areas and there are very different advertising there and very less of it to which is to be expected. Now from seeing countless ads in the city I have had my fare share of good and bad ads. In the city for most parts the ads are either really good or really extreme and not extreme in terms of extreme advertising but more risk taking with creativity. They include all major and small brands and companies from Mcdonalds to Pepsi co. to even a convenience store down the road and surprisingly they have all been good or at least decent I haven't seen a bad ad in the city in a while. Maybe I am not looking in the right places but I don't think I want to. Now my parents live by the lake way outside from the city and I do visit the area from time to time and my experience with advertisements there is that they are very different and not in a good way. Now I get it I am not the target audience at all for these ads but still from a consumers point of view many of the ads are for a high class lifestyle or for farms but even those are done so poorly either they are to simple or too confusing. The two places for ads are very different. So I stay in the city for my advertisements thank you very much hahaha.

Thanks for reading! Please comment down below you experience with advertisements in your area I would like to know! :)

Feeling loopy and sincerely,

AoM's Michael Rosales