Media+effect+on+Adolecents,+Advertisments

​ Advertisments Ads for products. Teenagers these says can be easily influenced by advertising. If they see the latest technology in an ad they will sometines immediately want to go out and buy it. E.g. the newest Ipod, the newest game or gaming system. Ads are very influential to teenagers. They can be sucked in to buy the newest technology straight away.

They advertising company's suck teenagers in and get their attention by playing modern music if it is on TV or radio. They use pictures and words to attract their attention in magazines they use body image, peer acceptance and coolness. Marketers also love advertising foe teens because they know they have a lot of money to burn.

Advertising works best when it makes someone feel insecure or bad about their appearence or bad that they don't have something. Teens are easily sucked into this. The advertisers act as if the product is the solution to their problem. They try to tell teens they arwen't good enough the way they are. This can have a big impact on peoples lives.

__ Subliminal Advertising __ Teens are very suseptable to subliminal advertising. If they see someone on TV smoking or drinking then they will want to doo it to. Subliminal advitising is what the alcohol and tobacco company's do to convince teens to start smoking or drinkin so they can make more money. Tody alone. In the USA, 4400 teenagers will start smoking. Many of them were lured to cigarettes by subliminal advertising. Subliminal advertising is also used to convince teens to buy the latest products. The use of tobacco in PG movies in 2003 increased 82% to try and convince teens to smoke.