Advertising is a Waste of Resources

The previous comments have been heavily biased towards approval of the function of advertising, While it is true that it has the virtue of informing the public of products and their advantages over other products, one should never forget that the best advertisement is word of mouth.

When one consumer tells another of their good experience with a car or a shampoo, it is worth any amount of advertising.

And the money spent on advertising is nothing short of criminal. It has s deleterious effect in politics. When one candidate has unlimited resources, it almost goes without saying that his/her name will be more recognized, regardless of that candidate's worthiness. And it is a given that he will win the election.

Advertising also encourages overspending. Indebtedness is one of the major causes of marriage breakdown and suicide when one is sued in court for money that is owed everywhere for "goodies" that were not necessary. It is after all a cause of gambling - trying to pay off these crippling debts.

Advertising also diverts funds from improving products through research and development rather that just saying - "buy me, I'm best".

Creative people are seduced into advertising and while we may enjoy slogans like "You'll wonder where the yellow went when you brush your teeth with this toothpaste" - only a fool would believe that other toothpastes aren't just as good.

How much more worthy their lives would be if they used their talents in fine art, in writing or in teaching.

I was in Russia before Gorbachev, the breakup of the Soviet Union and the fall of the Berlin Wall. The lack of advertising was refreshing. In both the Moscow and St Peters burg Underground Stations the walls were covered in beautiful murals, real works of art.

While admitting that advertising has its uses, I think one should not forget thee disadvantages.

Yes, I do partially agree with the statement that advertisement is a waste of resources as an advertisement instead of being the mode of spreading information has just become a commercial propaganda. Whenever you come out of an educational institute people starts to distribute lots of pamphlets, you feel like a rain of pamphlet even if you don't want to take it. So this is somehow wastage to paper media which is also an environmental concern. This is just one example, there are much more. So we are in need to be judicial about the mode of advertisement.

Hello everybody.

I do not agree with Advertisement is waste of resources. According to my opinion advertisement is the best way to inform the new product and about company of the product. Through the advertisement, we know quality and price of the product.

Now we have resources for an advertisement like TV and News paper etc. These are a medium to inform the new product to us about the new useful product.

So advertisement is must important It is not waste of resources, It is use of the resources by the product.

Advertisement is waste resource because it is lie.

Good morning friends.

As per my knowledge advertisement is not a wasteful expenditure because through advertisement people I will come to know the product advertisement are educates customers increase profit.

It promotes the product word of mouth important tool for advertisement fame and name for company built's reputation.

According to me advertisement simply means awareness about a particular thing. It aware the society. Nowaday we can see on television there is myriad of advertisement by which actors aware the society. Its live example is vidya Balan. Government Aware the society about there schemes so that the suffering person know all about the scheme and take benefits from it. It is the best way to aware the individual about anything.

Hi friends, I am Deepika Singhal and I would like to put up my point in the above discussion that advertisements are not always bad for the society and are not just a wastage of money which many of you think it is.

As we all know people are being fascinated by these advertisements and they get attracted towards all the schemes and discounts which a company or a manufacturer provides to attract the customers which are not at all a bad thing to sell or tell about the companies products.

As we all know demand and supply go hand in hand with the customers and nowadays since there is a lot of competition in the market so the customer is the king for the products and products are even designed considering them only. So if companies are advertising for the benefit of customers and keeping in mind about their profit than what's bad in that?

Advertisement is a waste of paper money and time. Product is exaggerated and presented which is misleading to all. People get attracted and buy all sort of useless commodities. Huge amount of money is spent careless which could be used in improving quality of the product. Several quality products are weakened at sale of advertisement of wrong brands.

Hello friends.

Advertisement means providing adequate knowledge about some products to potential consumer. So that they are motivated to buy the products and services. With the help of advertisement a manufacturer can spread information about their product to vast area. Through this medium manufacturer tries to establish superiority of their product in comparison to other manufacturer product and increases the demand of product by the old as well as new consumer. THANK YOU.

Well advertisement is a promotional technique. It is the only mode of communication between the producer and consumer. So it is not a waste resource. Every things have positive as well as negative side. If I talk about the positive sides of advertisement then.

1. It allows the producers to promote all the good things about the product.

2. It allow the consumer to know about the product. Basically it educate the consumers.

3. Advertisement can directly attract certain section of peoples like kids or teenagers etc.

4. Advertisement is the only tool to fight the battle in the competitive market. That is why all the best companies in the world like NIKE, PUMA, Apple continuously invest on advertisement.

Disadvantages.

1. It is a costly techniques.

2. Some time it mis lead peoples.