Marketing
WAEC 2019
a. What is advertising?
b. Identify any six media of advertising
C. Explain four disadvantages of advertising
Explanation
a. Advertising is any paid form of non- personal presentation and promotion of ideas, goods and services by an identified sponsor.
b.
- Magazine
- Newspaper
- Radio
- Cinema
- Sign post
- Billboard
- Posters
- Internet
- Journal
- Television etc.
C.
- Cost of advertisement: This is too expensive and drains the funds of a Company
- Mislead: Advertisement sometimes misleads consumers in the choice of goods and services to purchase
- Leads to higher prices: Consumers are made to bear the cost of advertisement by paying more for the advertised goods and services.
- Encourages materialism: makes people desire goods and services they cannot afford.
- It encourages impulse buying etc.
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