Visual Metaphors in Pakistani Television Commercials: Its Role in Shaping Female Consumer’s Perceptions about Brand Image and its Consumption

The consumers have many choices in buying products around the world, which makes tough competition among the brands. To make the brand stand out in the market, visuals metaphors have become mandatory tools that the advertisers use. Therefore, this study aims to find the role of visual metaphors of...

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spelling oai:doaj.org-article:198d9e9fefef4c2a980ce07b52bacd642021-11-04T15:46:10ZVisual Metaphors in Pakistani Television Commercials: Its Role in Shaping Female Consumer’s Perceptions about Brand Image and its Consumption10.47264/idea.lassij/4.2.122664-8148https://doaj.org/article/198d9e9fefef4c2a980ce07b52bacd642020-12-01T00:00:00Zhttps://ideapublishers.org/index.php/lassij/article/view/195https://doaj.org/toc/2664-8148 The consumers have many choices in buying products around the world, which makes tough competition among the brands. To make the brand stand out in the market, visuals metaphors have become mandatory tools that the advertisers use. Therefore, this study aims to find the role of visual metaphors of Pakistani Television Commercials (TVCs) in shaping the perceptions of female consumers regarding brand image and its consumption as television audience. The study followed the theory of visual rhetoric and brand equity, which gives the building block in understanding the relationship of visual metaphors with consumer’s perception about brand image. The qualitative method is used to scrutinize the in-depth perception by using focus group as a tool of data collection. The population of the study is female youth and 96 students participated as respondents. Results reveal that after watching TVCs, there is significant inclination and affirmative change in consumer’s perception about buying the product among youngsters. It also shows that using visual metaphors benefit significantly in distinction of a brand from its competitors. The conclusive findings will help the advertisers to know the effectiveness of visual metaphors of TVCs in changing consumer’s perception about the brand image and their buying pattern. Sumeera BatoolMoneeba IftikharArfa MashalIDEA PUBLISHERSarticleBrand PerceptionBuying BehaviourAdvertising EffectivenessProductsVisual RhetoricSymbolsSocial SciencesHPolitical scienceJENLiberal Arts and Social Sciences International Journal, Vol 4, Iss 2 (2020)
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topic Brand Perception
Buying Behaviour
Advertising Effectiveness
Products
Visual Rhetoric
Symbols
Social Sciences
H
Political science
J
spellingShingle Brand Perception
Buying Behaviour
Advertising Effectiveness
Products
Visual Rhetoric
Symbols
Social Sciences
H
Political science
J
Sumeera Batool
Moneeba Iftikhar
Arfa Mashal
Visual Metaphors in Pakistani Television Commercials: Its Role in Shaping Female Consumer’s Perceptions about Brand Image and its Consumption
description The consumers have many choices in buying products around the world, which makes tough competition among the brands. To make the brand stand out in the market, visuals metaphors have become mandatory tools that the advertisers use. Therefore, this study aims to find the role of visual metaphors of Pakistani Television Commercials (TVCs) in shaping the perceptions of female consumers regarding brand image and its consumption as television audience. The study followed the theory of visual rhetoric and brand equity, which gives the building block in understanding the relationship of visual metaphors with consumer’s perception about brand image. The qualitative method is used to scrutinize the in-depth perception by using focus group as a tool of data collection. The population of the study is female youth and 96 students participated as respondents. Results reveal that after watching TVCs, there is significant inclination and affirmative change in consumer’s perception about buying the product among youngsters. It also shows that using visual metaphors benefit significantly in distinction of a brand from its competitors. The conclusive findings will help the advertisers to know the effectiveness of visual metaphors of TVCs in changing consumer’s perception about the brand image and their buying pattern.
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author Sumeera Batool
Moneeba Iftikhar
Arfa Mashal
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Moneeba Iftikhar
Arfa Mashal
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title Visual Metaphors in Pakistani Television Commercials: Its Role in Shaping Female Consumer’s Perceptions about Brand Image and its Consumption
title_short Visual Metaphors in Pakistani Television Commercials: Its Role in Shaping Female Consumer’s Perceptions about Brand Image and its Consumption
title_full Visual Metaphors in Pakistani Television Commercials: Its Role in Shaping Female Consumer’s Perceptions about Brand Image and its Consumption
title_fullStr Visual Metaphors in Pakistani Television Commercials: Its Role in Shaping Female Consumer’s Perceptions about Brand Image and its Consumption
title_full_unstemmed Visual Metaphors in Pakistani Television Commercials: Its Role in Shaping Female Consumer’s Perceptions about Brand Image and its Consumption
title_sort visual metaphors in pakistani television commercials: its role in shaping female consumer’s perceptions about brand image and its consumption
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