Number 1:
Every time I watch television, I at least see two or three Orbitz commercials. Orbitz is a travel agency online in which you can find cheap flights, hotel rooms, and package deals. A lot of people in today's society want to travel to getaways to get away from their everyday lives. I totally agree. I'd love to travel to see the world and everything there is to offer. Orbitz would definitely pop up on my feed a lot because I'd always be looking at different places to travel to. In 2010, Orbitz reported a net income of $9.7 million. It really is a good site to get fair prices for airline tickets, hotel rooms, rental cars, package deals, etc.
Number 2:
I also see a lot of Coca-Cola commercials. As a soda fan, Coca-Cola is definitely one of my top picks. I drink at least one can of Coca-Cola a day. I feel like it is almost an addiction to me. I crave it with any of my meals or even if I am just thirsty. I don't really drink water (yes, I know this is bad) so I tend to go with juice or soda. There is always a case of Coca-Cola in my pantry. In 2006, the Coca-Cola Company spend about $2.6 billion in advertising. This includes commercials, billboards, labels on other products, etc. Since then, costs of advertising have increased. For a thrity-second advertisement during the Super Bowl, it costs $3 million. Revenue for Coca-Cola rose to $7.51 billion in 2010.
Number 3:
I LOVE jewelry!!!! I especially love diamonds! Zales is the perfect representation of a jewelry advertisement that would be on my feed. I love going shopping for jewelry whether it be for a birthday, Valentine's Day, Christmas, or a "just because." I have so much jewelry I don't know what to do with, but I still love to get new things. Diamonds are eye-catching, and I love to see them sparkle. Zales is located in 48 states as well as Puerto Rico and Guam. In the first quarter of 2011, Zales had revenues of $327 million. (Zales Corporation) I definitely love bling!
Number 4:
Can I just say "WOW!" I am really into sports bikes and sport cars as well as exotic cars. The Audi R8 is actually my dream car that I plan on having by the time I retire. I love driving motorcycles and definitely love speed. I believe that car ads as well as motorcycle ads would always pop up on my feed. I love just looking at exotic cars and seeing the different creations that car manufacturers have produced. From January to November 2010, Audi sold 1,003,900 cars. Over 1 million motorcycles are also sold each year. Motorcycles are a huge addiction to me. If I had the money, I would probably buy a few just to have different ones to ride all the time.
Advertisements are shown all the time in our daily lives. We cannot escape them unless we turn off the television, the computer, and do not leave our houses. Billboards are everywhere. There are always commercials in between television shows. There are also many banners that screen across the homepage of our innernet sites. If there was a feed, the advertisements that would be shown would be of the types of things we like or like to do. If we constanly search something, advertisements will start showing similar products, places, etc. When your mood changes, the advertisements on the feed change as shown by the characters in Feed.
I think it's really cool that you picked all things that we see every single day. To me even though they are popular today, these companies are the top grossing companies in the world and aren't going out of style anytime soon.
ReplyDelete"Orbitz is a travel agency online in which you can find cheap flights, hotel rooms, and package deals..." This quote just made me giggle because I bet 10 dollars you didn't even have to look up the definition it just came to you. In my post most of the information I already knew, except dollar amounts of course, and that kind of scared me. We know everything about companies and remember catch phrases like they're nothing but I can't even remember the names of characters in a book I read last week.
I just got done commenting on Ashley's post and she did the same response about the advertisements on her own Feed. I actually did it as well. Just like I told her, it's crazy because none of our advertisements seem to overlap. They're all different! It just makes me think, again, about how chaotic the Feed would be! There are so many companies and advertisements floating around out there. What would stop them from popping up in your Feed? Even if it wasn't something you were interested in! For example, we can't decide which commercials we want to come on in between our favorite shows, so I'm sure the same concept would be true with the Feed. I just feel as if the Feed would be incredibly overwhelming. I forget if they mentioned anything in the novel about "filing" any of the ads into a "junk" folder or something of that nature, but I definitely think that something like that would be necessary to keep us sane if the Feed actually existed one day!
ReplyDeleteI noticed you said that you were really into sports bikes and sports cars, and drinking Coke (I love it too), and it made me think that we as the consumer just continue to encourage and aid the fact that these companies continue to advertise everywhere. We spend our money to buy the stuff which they turn around and spend to make sure we continue to spend...circle of consumer life. The hard thing though is, how would we fix this? How do we stop spending when we need basic things like clothes, transportation, and food?
ReplyDelete"We cannot escape them unless we turn off the television, the computer, and do not leave our houses. Billboards are everywhere. There are always commercials in between television shows. There are also many banners that screen across the homepage of our internet sites."
ReplyDeleteI never really stopped to think about just how much advertisements are pushed onto us until I read the quote listed above. Ads are constantly flashed before us and, at least in my case, the more I see something the more I begin to like/want it. Its crazy that this is where we're at now and it really makes me think. Is this really what I want to be like?