IELTS Writing Topics | Advertising

Negatives of Advertising

• Advertising manipulates people.
• It aims to persuade people that buying a product will make them happier.
• Advertisers focus on selling a brand image.
• They use glamorous, successful people.
• We now live in a consumer culture.
• We are persuaded to follow the latest trends.
• We are encouraged to associate certain brands with a higher status.
• Advertisers often aim their marketing at children.
• Children can easily be influenced by advertisements.
• Children put pressure on parents to buy them things.

Opinions about Advertising

• Advertising should be regulated.
• Advertising aimed at children should be controlled or even banned.
• Unhealthy foods should not be marketed in a way that attracts children.
• Products that can be a risk to health should display warnings.
• In some countries it is illegal to advertise cigarettes on television.
• Warnings must be displayed on cigarette packets.
• However, advertising is necessary in free market economies.
• It creates demand for products.
• Governments should only censor false information or products that are harmful.