Effects of Advertisement Advertisement is a big part of our lives. Every day the average person sees and processes around fifteen hundred advertisements, such as those on TV and print ads, or billboards. Do these advertisements have any effect upon us? If so, is it bad or good? Almost all businesses, and even the government, use advertising as a way to promote their products and services. They try to manipulate people’s minds by running the same words and same pictures through people's heads over and over. So when people go shopping and see the products that have been advertised, their minds unconsciously recall the comm