It has been argued that interdicting all advertising methods and platforms offers great advantages to the community due to its ineffectiveness or sometimes, it could even be damaging . From my perspective, it seems undeniable that the society may not only benefit but also tolerant the weaknesses from this trend.
On the one hand, the act of promoting products or services plays a crucial role in promoting economic activity; therefore contributing to the development of a country. Taking McDonald’s commercial campaign: Cow makes the world go Moo as an example, the brand uses the animal to represent where the “real milkshake” comes from. People will be driven to the ad and they think the more they drink Mcdonalds milkshake, the healthier they get. And this results in a sevenfold increase in milkshake sales, data shows that about 40% of the milshake were sold in the very early morning. Forbidding advertising can reduce a brand’s reputation; therefore, no brand’s information, products exaggerating will be informed to the consumer. This can serve to reduce purchaser’s expenditure on shopping. On top of that, it would appear to the bar that less promoting services also has drawbacks on our society. It is likely that people with occupations relevant to the advertising field would go unemployed due to the ban on what they are working on.
On the other hand, no advertising is symnonymous with no exaggerating products features out for buyers to be affected by, individuals is now hard to differentiate goods from different competitors in the market. They would just probably select items to fulfill their requirements without being extra careful about the truths in which the products have been exaggerated or not. Additionally, we are living in a consumer society where even the young are conscious of famous names such as Lego or M&Ms. Because of this, many companies targeted consumer are kids and in order to increase their sales, these manufacture bombard children with colorfuf and entertaning ads which kids think that those are good shows TV shows. Hence, kids may experience with products and services that are harmful to their health of not appropriate for their age.
To conclude, after carefully considerate of the arguments articulated, it is my conviction that prohibiting advertising can be a double-edged sword for the community. Each individual should be wary of advertisment they witness.