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Record Nr.

UNINA9910792939603321

Autore

Bartholomew Mark

Titolo

Adcreep : The Case Against Modern Marketing / / Mark Bartholomew

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Stanford, CA : , : Stanford University Press, , [2020]

©2017

ISBN

1-5036-0218-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (236 pages)

Disciplina

343.7308/2

Soggetti

Advertising laws - United States

Marketing - Law and legislation - United States

Advertising - Social aspects - United States

Marketing - Social aspects - United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1. Advertising on Trial -- 2. Colonizing New Advertising Spaces -- 3. The New Market Research -- 4. From Market Share to Mindshare -- 5. Sellebrity -- 6. Stopping Adcreep -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

Advertising is everywhere. By some estimates, the average American is exposed to over 3,000 advertisements each day. Whether we realize it or not, "adcreep"—modern marketing's march to create a world where advertising can be expected anywhere and anytime—has come, transforming not just our purchasing decisions, but our relationships, our sense of self, and the way we navigate all spaces, public and private. Adcreep journeys through the curious and sometimes troubling world of modern advertising. Mark Bartholomew exposes an array of marketing techniques that might seem like the stuff of science fiction: neuromarketing, biometric scans, automated online spies, and facial recognition technology, all enlisted to study and stimulate consumer desire. This marriage of advertising and technology has consequences. Businesses wield rich and portable records of consumer preference, delivering advertising tailored to your own idiosyncratic thought processes. They mask their role by using social media to mobilize others, from celebrities to your own relatives, to convey their



messages. Guerrilla marketers turn every space into a potential site for a commercial come-on or clandestine market research. Advertisers now know you on a deeper, more intimate level, dramatically tilting the historical balance of power between advertiser and audience. In this world of ubiquitous commercial appeals, consumers and policymakers are numbed to advertising's growing presence. Drawing on a variety of sources, including psychological experiments, marketing texts, communications theory, and historical examples, Bartholomew reveals the consequences of life in a world of non-stop selling. Adcreep mounts a damning critique of the modern American legal system's failure to stem the flow of invasive advertising into our homes, parks, schools, and digital lives.