Advertising and Free Channel Stations
There are many obvious reasons why advertisements and advertising in general is a boon to the society:
It enables a company to promote its product to the general public.
It provides jobs. People who design the ads make an income, and job offerings are made through advertisements.
It allows the people to choose what they want to buy and want to scorn at.
It provides a source of entertainment.
It helps circulate money to the society. Advertising companies pay other companies for showing their advertisements, therefore allowing these companies to offer “free” services to the public. Without advertising companies, we would not have a free yahoo or Gmail account, and also “free” channel stations like ABS-CBN or GMA-7.
It engenders creativity by “forcing” companies to male good and worth-to-look-at advertisements in order for potential costumers to be attracted to the product(s) and/or service(s) they are selling/offering.
It encourages a competitive marketing atmosphere, thereby helping keep commodity prices down.
In lieu of these are also reasons why advertisements are bane:
They can be interpreted as unwanted graffiti, appearing in places where they shouldn’t. This is evidenced by users infuriated with pop ups and pop-unders when visiting sites, and sites that offer an advertising-free environment when users upgrade to a “premium” or “exclusive” account.
They violate a person’s security by the use of targeted advertising, where advertisements are flashed according to a person’s preferences. This type of advertising frequently, though not always, are based upon the data collected by third party companies, such as search companies and electronic mail companies, which uses the data fed to them by users, such as search data and scanned e-mail contents, in order to display to the user the right advertisement. This type of advertising has received a lot of criticism and objection, for in the process of collecting data, privacy of the user is obviously
It enables a company to promote its product to the general public.
It provides jobs. People who design the ads make an income, and job offerings are made through advertisements.
It allows the people to choose what they want to buy and want to scorn at.
It provides a source of entertainment.
It helps circulate money to the society. Advertising companies pay other companies for showing their advertisements, therefore allowing these companies to offer “free” services to the public. Without advertising companies, we would not have a free yahoo or Gmail account, and also “free” channel stations like ABS-CBN or GMA-7.
It engenders creativity by “forcing” companies to male good and worth-to-look-at advertisements in order for potential costumers to be attracted to the product(s) and/or service(s) they are selling/offering.
It encourages a competitive marketing atmosphere, thereby helping keep commodity prices down.
In lieu of these are also reasons why advertisements are bane:
They can be interpreted as unwanted graffiti, appearing in places where they shouldn’t. This is evidenced by users infuriated with pop ups and pop-unders when visiting sites, and sites that offer an advertising-free environment when users upgrade to a “premium” or “exclusive” account.
They violate a person’s security by the use of targeted advertising, where advertisements are flashed according to a person’s preferences. This type of advertising frequently, though not always, are based upon the data collected by third party companies, such as search companies and electronic mail companies, which uses the data fed to them by users, such as search data and scanned e-mail contents, in order to display to the user the right advertisement. This type of advertising has received a lot of criticism and objection, for in the process of collecting data, privacy of the user is obviously