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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Brands often promote their products as innovative and novel. They primarily do so to attract more customers and increase their sales. This has some drawbacks as well as some merits. But in my opinion, any effort, on the part of businesses, to describe their products or services in a new light should be considered a positive thing because, without such practices, we would not be able to know about many of the necessary products and services that we use today.

The obvious reason for this trend is that all businesses want to boost their sales and revenues. But, unfortunately, increasing sales and revenues is not always as easy as it may sound, are operating . And that is exactly why they need to employ innovative advertising ideas and business strategies to show their prospective customers that their products indeed are “something new” and offer for the prices they pay.

Advertising products as new or innovative is a positive development and indeed needed because it helps reach and attract a larger customer base from different lifestyles, cultural backgrounds, professions, ages, races and religions. In other words, we all are different, with different tastes and preferences, and therefore it is only natural that businesses would want to target each group of these customers with different and unique messages in order to showcase and identify their products as something “new”. Moreover, such strategies employed by businesses bring positive results to many consumers of the customers today, if not all, expect more out of their life.

In conclusion, to keep customers on board and advertise their products and services as innovative and new. It helps both customers to satisfy their expectations as consumers while also bringing in more revenue to businesses.

Overall assessment

Why this response received Band 6.5

The response clearly addresses both parts of the question, offering a plausible explanation for the trend and a stated positive evaluation. Its main limitation is uneven development, as the second body paragraph drifts toward audience targeting rather than fully justifying why the practice is beneficial, and some support remains vague.

IELTS criteria

How each score was decided

Task Response

6.5

The response addresses both questions with a relevant reason and a clear positive position, but the main ideas are unevenly developed and support for the evaluation is partly generic or drifting off-focus.

Coherence and Cohesion

6.5

The essay has a logical overall structure with clear paragraphing and linking devices, though some connections are mechanical and the progression within the second body paragraph weakens.

Lexical Resource

6.5

There is a sufficient range of vocabulary for the topic with some natural collocations, but occasional awkward or imprecise phrasing such as 'better values' and 'more-than-life expectations' reduces precision.

Grammatical Range and Accuracy

7.0

A variety of sentence structures, including complex forms, is used with generally good control, and errors are minor and rarely impede meaning.