IELTS Writing Task 2

Topic: Society would benefit from a ban on all form of advertising because it serves no useful purposes, and can even be damaging. To what extent do you agree or disagree?

Advertising in the modern-day society is becoming more popular than in the past, and as a consequence, a number of promotional methods such as TV commercial or billboards help products can easily approach new customers. However, a number of people believe that governments should prohibit all types of advertising due to their useless purposes and impair effects. I completely disagree with that view because advertising still produces some significant effects on the public.

Advertising has several profound influences on society and economic development. Firstly, customers may not only capture up-to-date information about products but save a lot of their time as well because they can make decisions shortly by watching advertising videos broadcasted on their TV rather than going to where they are purchased. Secondly, a mass marketing campaign as much as encourages spender to purchase more products, which help create a considerable increase in the consumption of goods and services. Manufacturing industry, thus, will be promoted and lead to the economic growth. Thirdly, as far as social workforce is concerned, advertising can help mitigate the unemployment rate, for instance, the employed may find out their appropriate works quickly thanks to job vacancies advertised in the newspaper. Last but not least, advertising is able to back social organizations such as health services and welfare state because some taxes imposed on it may greatly contribute to government budget.

In conclusion, despite several negative impacts, I personally believe that advertising have a far-reaching benefit for community and will provide more useful information for consumers in the years to come.