The reality of advertising is right under our noses and in front of our eyes. Wherever we are or whatever we are doing, the fact is we are likely to be surrounded and influenced by advertisements.
Shakespeare advertised his plays, of course, but not in the commercial
sense we know today. For more than a hundred years, though, commercial
advertisements for products and services have been vying for the
attention of the consumer. Those businesses found that the bigger and bolder the claims they made, the more people bought their products and chose them over the competition.
The fiercely competitive businesses of advertising and marketing were born. Today those businesses alone are worth billions and even trillions of dollars. They infiltrate and influence every purchase we make and many we do not even intend to from our early ages through to our retirement homes and even our burial plots. We are literally bombarded with advertising for products that we do not even need from......
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