Companies believe that spending that little extra money to capture a pre-teens attention is well worth it. Stated in, “Tweens’ Knowledge of Marketing Tactics Skeptical Beyond Their Years”, “Estimates suggested that marketers spend more than $17 billion in their attempts to influence more than $150 billion in annual spending attributable to children and preteen” (Freeman & Shapiro, 2014, p. 2). Companies are spending more money towards the pre-teen age group on advertisement because they know that tweens are more vulnerable to spend their money on the products. Tweens are in the age group where they want to go to the mall with their friends and hang out and when they go to the mall they are going to be tempted to buy something they like. If the tweens saw the product on the television and try it out, they may come to realize that they actually do enjoy the product, so they decide to buy but the company’s
Companies believe that spending that little extra money to capture a pre-teens attention is well worth it. Stated in, “Tweens’ Knowledge of Marketing Tactics Skeptical Beyond Their Years”, “Estimates suggested that marketers spend more than $17 billion in their attempts to influence more than $150 billion in annual spending attributable to children and preteen” (Freeman & Shapiro, 2014, p. 2). Companies are spending more money towards the pre-teen age group on advertisement because they know that tweens are more vulnerable to spend their money on the products. Tweens are in the age group where they want to go to the mall with their friends and hang out and when they go to the mall they are going to be tempted to buy something they like. If the tweens saw the product on the television and try it out, they may come to realize that they actually do enjoy the product, so they decide to buy but the company’s