Predatory Advertising
For Profit College
Optimization Program
Intro/Advertising Basics
Ad "Workers"
100

Define the "Pain-Point"

Finding where consumers suffer most 

100

Define for-profit college

A college who focuses more on capital rather than education and targets poorer parts of the population

100

The number of ads A/B testing usually compares

Two

100

Name one of the Ads shown on the Advertising Basics slide. 

Doritos, Nike, Mcdonalds, Heinz, Clear

100

Explain a middleman in advertising.

Someone who uses crude methods of advertising.

200

Define Predatory Advertising 

Ads that pinpoint people in great need and take advantage of them

200

Identify a victim of a for-profit college

Student Immigrant

200

Identify the two main groups in charge of the optimization program

Marketing team and Data scientists

200

Define Advertising

The activity or profession of producing advertisements for commercial products or services.(answers may vary)

200

Name 3 types of advertising careers.

Writer, Video editor, Photographer, Graphic Designer

300

Identify where and what information is gathered for Predatory Advertising

Google searches and relevant information from the searches

300

A University that was a fraud/example of a for-profit college

Trump University 

300

Give some examples of places where we can see commercials

TV,  Movies, Billboards, etc.

300

Define and give an example of propaganda

Information, ideas, or rumors deliberately spread widely to help or harm a person, group, movement, nation, etc. Examples: MAGA, Red Scare (answers may vary)

300

This Google tool records all advertising and promotion responses.

Google Analytics

400

Identify who takes prey on the working class and the poor

Capitalists

400

Total student loans in the United States

1.52 trillion

400

The goals of the optimization program

Raise people and money

400

Teo's first and last name (:

Mateo Nelson
400

Name a method that middlemen use to draw people in.

Fake Ads

500

Name three types of people said in the lecture that are a target for predatory advertising

People with drug addiction, low self esteem, or people raising children in gang affiliated areas

500

Ways for-profit colleges attract us

Society we live in, colleges being ranked, community colleges being cheaper and better

500

Locations companies broadcast their ‘experimental commercials’

Platforms like Google and Facebook

500

Define Targeted Advertising and give an example

Advertising made to target a specific audience. Example: For Profit College, Nike, Art Van (answers may vary)

500

The cruel method of advertising Sprint used to benefit their business.

Paul switching companies and throwing Verizon under the bus.

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