Advertising in the case of the Benetton Group change the way the world viewed advertising. The Benetton Group used shock advertising to promote their products. Benetton did not use their products in the advertisement, …show more content…
Shock advertisements can be shocking and offensive for a variety of reasons, and violation of social, religious, and political norms can occur in many different ways (Stock Advertising, 1). This included someone own personal traditions, practice, beliefs, and themselves. Several of their product or service messages could be shocking or offensive to the public. Some effects on the consumers are the shocking content in an advertisement significantly increases attention, benefits memory, and positively influences behavior (Stock Advertising, 1). Studies show that more consumers are going to remember the shocking advertisement content over the advertisement that is not …show more content…
The fashion industry targets its image-oriented advertising into a brand than can match every type of lifestyle, such as Calvin Klein is hip, Ralph Lauren is rich, and Benetton is highly controversial. Advertising industry experts claim that image advertising is part of a master plan to get customers to "buy-in" to a lifestyle, first connecting through a psychological/aspirational level and then on a product level. Similarly, this has been achieved through advertising in the automobile industry.
Within the realm of image advertising falls the concept of emotional branding. Emotional branding, sometimes referred to as shockvertising, is a form of image advertising intended to sell images rather than the products themselves, by appealing to a customer's emotions. This targets other dimensions for attracting consumers, not through the functional aspects of products, but through the emotional aspects, which is what branding is all