Derek Maul Television commercials have evolved into a highly developed art form. Sometimes, on a slow TV night, they are the best entertainment on the small screen.
Advertisements have an amazing power to manipulate both our spending habits and our preferences.
Today, more and more high-profile celebrities are being paid to promote products. As if a famous face lends credibility to a particular soft drink, line of clothing or even lifestyle. Teens, especially, read magazines, watch videos, and listen to talk shows that showcase music, sports, movie and television stars, displaying their opinions and promoting their values with glitz, glamour, and a level of endorsement that seems to equate celebrity with authority on almost every topic. To parents, this can be overwhelming. Here's the good news.