"Middle Class" in the cultural industry

Abstract

This article revisits earlier research to reflect on the notion of "middle class" in the advertising and marketing contexts. The idea of middle class is often used to set the television audience, the larger media in Brazil in terms of national impact. The period of 1970 to 2000 previously searched assists in understanding how a domestic consumer market was formed and what has been propagated by the popular press as a social change (an expansion and formation of a new middle class), but I suggest that "new C class" represents only the increase in consumption of manufactured goods. For that, I turn to previous research done on the TV advertising market, advertising and marketing medium, and the logic of TV audience research, as conducted by Ibope.