Difference between revisions of "Advertising overload"
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==Description:== | ==Description:== | ||
Advertising informs, infects, entertains, and annoys…sometimes all at a time! All over the world, advertising is sometimes considered as invasive. Due to the increasing amount of advertising, there are more and more people who are willing to do everything to be able to skip | Advertising informs, infects, entertains, and annoys…sometimes all at a time! All over the world, advertising is sometimes considered as invasive. Due to the increasing amount of advertising, there are more and more people who are willing to do everything to be able to skip as much adds as possible. | ||
Advertising overload is part of a broader problem called information overload. Due to especially the Internet, there's so much information available that it is very hard for people to figure out which information they need. | |||
==Enablers:== | ==Enablers:== | ||
* | * Knowledge of companies that advertising still works and that advertising is 'a weapon to fight against the competitors'. | ||
* Rise of new media like TV, internet, mobile devices | * Rise of (new) media like TV, internet, mobile devices. | ||
* People's increasing prosperity: they have more money to spend, advertisers know that | * People's increasing prosperity: they have more money to spend, advertisers know that. | ||
==Inhibitors:== | ==Inhibitors:== | ||
* | * Increasing ability of people to scan advertisements and focus only on the interesting ones. | ||
* Government's fight against spam. | |||
==Paradigms:== | ==Paradigms:== | ||
... | The increase of advertisements can result in different things. One the one hand it could be that people will be able to deal with the huge amounts of advertisements. On the other hand we already see that governments are making regulations to forbid spam etc. This will reduce the advertising overload. | ||
==Experts:== | ==Experts:== | ||
* | * n/a | ||
==Timing:== | ==Timing:== | ||
* | * Not possible to predict. | ||
==Web Resources:== | ==Web Resources:== | ||
*http://ciadvertising.org/SA/fall_03/adv382j/emilie/site3/ResistanceAdv.htm | |||
*http://brand.blogs.com/mantra/2004/05/advertising_ove.html | |||
Revision as of 21:45, 27 March 2006
Description:
Advertising informs, infects, entertains, and annoys…sometimes all at a time! All over the world, advertising is sometimes considered as invasive. Due to the increasing amount of advertising, there are more and more people who are willing to do everything to be able to skip as much adds as possible.
Advertising overload is part of a broader problem called information overload. Due to especially the Internet, there's so much information available that it is very hard for people to figure out which information they need.
Enablers:
- Knowledge of companies that advertising still works and that advertising is 'a weapon to fight against the competitors'.
- Rise of (new) media like TV, internet, mobile devices.
- People's increasing prosperity: they have more money to spend, advertisers know that.
Inhibitors:
- Increasing ability of people to scan advertisements and focus only on the interesting ones.
- Government's fight against spam.
Paradigms:
The increase of advertisements can result in different things. One the one hand it could be that people will be able to deal with the huge amounts of advertisements. On the other hand we already see that governments are making regulations to forbid spam etc. This will reduce the advertising overload.
Experts:
- n/a
Timing:
- Not possible to predict.