Advertisement Perception and Generations: Comparison between X, Y, and Z Generations

İngilizce (OpenAlex)

The advertising industry and generations are in continual interaction. From past to present, advertisements have been organized for ages. The perceptions and ads have changed in the axis of technological developments. By the time advertising throughout the traditional media, the messages flow accordingly one-way communication model. However, today's new media opportunities, such as social media, originate a model based on bidirectional communication and more interaction. The combination of the changing perception of people in daily life practice, consumption habits, and lifestyles with technology led to the formation of a reasonably new and diverse audience, defined as generation Z. Generation Z is a generation that grew up in a period when technological developments were more diversified than the previous two generations (X, Y) and consequently had a more technological aptitude. However, the X generation, who lived in the analog era, and the Y generation, who experienced both analog and digital periods, hitherto have been attempting to adapt to the new era, non-isolated from technological developments. Therefore, three generations have been analyzed in this context by conducting qualitative research, advertising and intergenerational perception have been comprehended in depth. Those generations demand adaption to this new-tech period. Obtaining findings were subjected to content analysis, and three themes have been achieved: Concerns of Current Circumstances, The Inconvenience of Ads, and Advertising and Public Relations: Digitalization of the Profession.