Appeals and Execution Styles
Appeals and Execution Styles
Appeals and Execution Styles
EXECUTION STYLES
Sanjeev Kumar
INTRODUCTION
Once the major selling idea/ big idea and the
advertising campaign theme has been agreed upon, the
creative team then turns its attention to determining
the specific type of appeal and execution style that will
be used to carry out the creative concept.
The focus of this lecture is on how the advertising
message will be executed and considers the various
appeals or approaches used to as well as the creative
execution styles that can be used to turn the appeal
into an actual advertisement
ADVERTISING APPEALS
Advertising appeal refers to the basis or
approach used in the advertisement to elicit
some consumer response or to influence their
feelings toward the product, service, or cause.
At the broadest level, these approaches can
be broken down into two categories or classes
which are informational/rational appeals
and emotional appeals
ADVERTISING APPEALS
Informational/rational appealsThese types of appeals focus
on the consumer's practical, functional or utilitarian need for
the product or service and/or specific reasons for owning a
particular brand.
Emotional advertising appeals - These advertisements whose
main purpose is to relate to consumers' social and/or
psychological needs for purchasing a product or service.
convey an image.
Both for emotional and rational appeals, different formats or
execution strategies and different types of endorsers can be
used
ADVERTISING APPEALS
RATIONAL APPEAL:
EXECUTION
TALKING HEAD
DEMONSTRATION
RATIONAL APPEAL:
EXECUTION
Problem solution: shows first a problem and next the solution the
brand can offer.
EMOTIONAL APPEAL
:EXECUTION
Humour :Humorous advertising can be defined as an appeal
created with the intent to make people laugh
Eroticism: Defined very broadly, an ad can be classified as
erotic if one or more of the following elements are present:
partial or complete nudity, physical contact between two
adults, sexy or provocatively dressed person(s), provocative
or seductive facial expression, and suggestive words or
sexually laden music, etc.
Fear :Fear appeal is negative appeal that cautions consumers
against a risk or talks about the ills of not using a product.
Agony: Help people get out of problem