TV Commercials

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This paper establishes that advertising has a very fundamental and valuable contribution in as much that it fuels economic and social progress. The writer argues that advertising stimulates economic growth through creating new desires, thereby increasing the demand for goods and services. This paper also states how advertising allows consumers to make informed purchase decisions. It concludes that advertising revenue enables affordable, mass access to popular television programming, such as news and talk shows, which then leads to information, knowledge, and debate on issues of social concern.

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"Though a simplistic definition of the advertising discipline is "a commercial communication from an identified sponsor, which uses various commercial platforms, such as newspapers, radio, TV, billboards, satellite, Internet, to connect with an audience, e.g. customers", the importance of the function is really seen in the role it plays in economic and social development. Advertising stimulates competition among providers of goods and services leading to the development of higher quality products, a better standard of living, increased consumer demand, employment generation, and incremental government revenue through sales tax and more taxable income. Advertising also increases consumer welfare, as it allows buyers to choose the product or service that best meets their needs, based on the information provided. The importance of the advertising industry in economic and social development is further reflected in the fact that advertising revenues are a significant source of finance for media, educational programming, and entertainment. Newspapers, magazines, cable, satellite, broadcast services, and the Internet depend on advertising support to keep their prices affordable (The Liberation of Advertising Services, Nov. 2002)."

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