Prescription drug ads

The problems with the pharmaceutical industry began early on with cocaine tooth drops. Drugs ads have been present for just as long as that to encourage people to seek medical advice to buy their product and fund their costly research and development. In the early 1700s and 1800s drug company’s were advertised in papers in ways that were exaggerated or deceptive. In the Twentieth century drugs were separated by two classes, “Medical drugs” and illegal drugs. By the 1900s the FDA issued ad regulations that required a “true statement of information in brief summary relating to the side effects, contraindications, and effectiveness.

Superbowl Commerials

The Purpose for these Super Bowl commercial ads are overall the same purpose for all ads, To sell the product or idea. The commercial ads show both sides of the perspective in the Wendy’s vs MacDonald’s commercial, but in the tide commercial ad there was only one stance. The Content in these commercials were pretty effective to me to get my attention, mostly because they were entertaining.