Purposes of advertising: To inform educate to increase sales influence to change increase popularity and recognition of your company Main purposes of commercial advertising: create awareness-(to inform, to educate, new commercial product) Introduce a new product to the market-diversify Increase sales-deals/offers/psychological hierarchy of needs Rebrand an existing product-change in aesthetics overtime-society value changes Generate feedback-feedback from the audience-testing the market-to become part of future assets