Should advertising to young people be banned? Up to what age? Or all ages?

No I dont not think advertising to young people should be banned, because I think it would be just a wast of time. I think it would be a wast of time becasue if most young people do not have one thing to follow they look or the next. The video showed a large group waiting on line outside of a concert they had there face painted like they no the mebers of the group would have they face painted, that day most people looked alike and was acting a like, they did a lot out yelling and acted in what looked liike rebelous actions. One they video showed how the group acted when they was one stage everthing they fans were doing became moer clear. The group mebers were throughing things around the stage, they were yelling and they were jumping off of thing. This proved to me that most young follow what ever they think is cool .

so i guess what im trying to say is that, if they stop playing Ipod commericals every time i new ipod came out, yes there would be less people buying a new ipod becuase they would be less awear that a new one came out or what its able to do. So the new Ipod wouldnt be as "cool" because a lot of people wouldnt be no about it, bout something that more people no about would be more "cool". As you saw it in the video.

What specific manipulation techniques work best on the specific insecurities and emotional needs of young people, according to Merchants of Cool?

I think the best manipulation techniques to use to make young people more into something is, to show them that one well know person likes is as well. For example Chris Brown did a doublement commerical were he change the words to one of the song that was on his C.D and put doublement in replace for the words he took out . He also dance to the song . The cammerical had everyone talking about it because Chris Brown made a song and a dance about gum so when you want in the store to buy gum you though about the commercial even if you didn' buy the gum. The video also showed this happening were they were trying to get people to drink sprite so the had a basketball player drink it in the commercial, they thought if peopel see they besketball player drink sprite they would want to drink it as well.