Advertising Products as New: Causes and Effects

In their advertising, businesses nowadays usually emphasise that their products are new in some way. Why is this? Do you think it is a positive or negative development?

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Currently, businesses advertise their products as the most innovative thing or as a novelty in the market. The tend to like the next best thing. I think it’s a positive development as the are forced to innovate and push boundaries in order to achieve that next best thing for the customers.

Businesses tend to advertise their products using tags like new features, new generation, or all new. People are always interested in the most trendy or latest products which are presumably than the ones they . For instance, Apple will always market its new products as the best possible version of the same. If they are advertising a new iPad, then it will be featured as the new generation of iPad with all the flashy upgrades. The key reason is to make people , compelling them into this belief that it is better to get that latest version of the same products because it’s new.

In this competitive market, where an alternative product for exists. So for businesses to keep selling their products, they really need to be innovative and better than their competitors. I think emphasizing the newer qualities of the product really gives companies that edge they need so it’s a positive development, from a of course. If customers’ welfare is taken into account, then they usually are tricked into buying the products they don’t actually need due to this advertising which focuses on the new features. On the other hand, they get new and advanced products in a very short amount of time.

So to increase their potential buyers, the businesses advertise the latest features in their products and I think it’s a positive development for and businesses with a on customer’s side.

Overall assessment

Why this response received Band 6.5

The response clearly answers both parts of the question, offering a plausible explanation for novelty-focused advertising and a consistent, if somewhat qualified, positive stance supported by the Apple example. The main limitations are imprecise wording and occasional grammatical slips, along with a conclusion that hedges the position rather than consolidating it.

IELTS criteria

How each score was decided

Task Response

6.5

The response addresses both questions, presents a clear positive position, and develops it with a relevant example, though the concluding hedge and unevenly weighed benefits slightly limit full development.

Coherence and Cohesion

6.5

Ideas are arranged in a broadly logical progression with functional paragraphing, but cohesion is occasionally mechanical and a sentence fragment disrupts the flow.

Lexical Resource

6.0

Vocabulary is adequate for the topic with some natural phrases, yet imprecise usage such as 'fall back', 'tags', and 'tricked into this belief' reduces precision.

Grammatical Range and Accuracy

6.0

A mix of simple and complex structures is used with generally clear meaning, but errors including a sentence fragment and inconsistent articles and agreement are noticeable.