OBJECTIVES
• To understand consumer perception of the celebrities in advertisements.
• To understand the effectiveness of celebrity endorsement.
• To identify drawbacks associated with celebrity endorsement.
• To arrive at a meaningful conclusion of study
1.1 INTRODUCTION
Everyday consumers are exposed to thousands of voices and images in magazines, newspapers and on billboards, websites, radio, blog and television. Every brand wants at least a fraction of a person‘s time to inform him or her of the amazing and different attributes of the product at hand. The challenge of the marketer is to find a formula that will hold the subject‘s attention. In helping to achieve this, use of celebrity endorsers is a widely used marketing strategy.
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But even then, the glamour of a celebrity seldom goes unnoticed. Thus, celebrity endorsement in advertisement and its impact on the overall brand is of great significance. In this process, the companies hire celebrities from a particular field to feature in its advertisement campaigns. The promotional features and images of the product are matched with the celebrity image, which tends to persuade a consumer to fix up his choice from a variety of brands. Is this the only way to curb the louasion as brand differentiating messages. (Dixit,2005).
Very often, various advertising styles are used by advertisers to influence consumer brand choice behaviour and among these different available choices one very popular choice is Celebrity Endorsements. (Alsmadi 2006)
―Traditional celebrity endorsements are as well established as the concept of celebrity itself.‖(Anonymous,
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In India especially, it is not difficult to find motives for the increasing use if celebrities in advertisements as Indians have always been in awe of the stars of the celluloid world. Indeed, some people are seen to admire, imitate, and become besotted with their favourite celebrities, which forms the crux for the celebrity endorsement being quite a sought after advertisement technique.(McCutcheon et.al 2003)
Today celebrity endorsement is being seen more and more as an integral part in an integrated marketing communication strategy. Hamish and Pringle (2004) suggest 3 macro factors present in the market today that in principal justifies the validity of celebrity endorsement as a promotional strategy. The first factors the increasing opportunity for interactivity between brands and their consumers. Second is the ―era of consent‖ situation present today where consumers have more control over the messages they receive. And lastly is the increasing
For their marketing strategies, St. Jude uses celebrity stars connection as well as good marketing decisions and programs to attract the consumers and businesses. This type of marketing brings in hundreds of millions of dollars each year for the hospital. Some of their fundraising efforts were Trike-a-thon, Math-a-thon, Up 'Til Dawn and the Dream Home Giveaway (Zmuda, 2011). Their celebrity connections started when the founder, Danny Thomas, would get celebrities like Bob Hope and Sammy Davis Jr. to come and support the cause. Today his children Marlo, Tony and Terre continue to be involved and get celebrities like Jennifer Aniston, Robin Williams and Antonio Banderas to support (Zmuda, 2011).
In a world where advertising presence is continuing to grow, how do consumers know when their data is being collected and how it is being used to target them? To some consumers, data mining, the collection of data from internet users that can be used by companies and even the government, may not seem like a huge problem. Joseph Turow investigates the growing problem to today’s society in his book, The Daily You. Turow structures his article in a way that creates fear in the audience through directly speaking and relating to the reader, referencing specific examples, and using a negative tone throughout. By speaking directly to the reader, Turow is able to convey his message to them by using the word “you.”
Choose to use apps and services that notify you, in plain language, what information they collect and why”. Trapani presents the problem and offers a solution for readers. Like Felten she shows that there is a problem but also helps the reader by giving them an answer. The common reader will not be able to make changes in the application making process, which Trapani knows, but they can be aware of the danger and look to avoid putting themselves in situations where they lose privacy. Her argument is clear and simple, which is perfect for the common app user who may not be an expert.
Celebrity endorsement or opposition should be avoided, this type of advertising ploy is cliched and quite arguably has become redundant. Appealing
“Regardless of what artists may think about this shift in the music industry, there’s no arguing that they need to adapt in order to make money” (Carter 5). Endorsement deals play a big role in a musician’s career. Currently people are debating about whether or not artists should allow advertisers to use their music in promotions. Artists should allow their music to be in commercials because advertising keeps a musician financially stable and helps them reach a wider audience. Generally speaking, allowing corporations to use a musician’s music in advertising keeps artists financially stable.
This statement is borderline accurate because most advertisements from automotive to magazines, use celebrities to enhance their brand to appeal to the fans. Advertising has become extremely important in promoting messages that only minds of the target audience will understand like the younger demographic compared to older demographics. Certain older individuals believe that the commercials nowadays are becoming ridiculous, but once they figure out what the commercials are about. The first thing they are the main ones that want to go purchase or upgrade their automobiles, refrigerators, appliances, cell phones, etc., to fit in with the evolvement of society in this generation. Women in current times goals are to save money every chance they get, to purchase or lease a brand-new car; because it gives them a sense of dependency and achievement.
People such as celebrities, have a higher influence on people and their decision making on products, which is why many companies hire well-known celebrities to promote their products in the media. In an article written by Marketing Charts called, “How Influential are Celebrities?” they discuss the power of product placement and celebrity endorsements. The statistics for how much a celebrity influences its fans varies throughout the article, depending on what exactly they endorse. The article had some very interesting key points about celebrities also having a negative impact on product endorsement, mentioning that traditional brand promotion without celebrities had more of a positive influence.
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In our world, Society gets watched twenty-four seven and some people know it, but they either do not care or just go along. So in reality, Society could prevent this problem by removing social media off of their habits and be spy free. “Young adults (85% of whom are smartphone owners) are also incorporating their mobile devices into a host of information seeking and transactional behaviors. About three-quarters of 18-29 year old smartphone owners have used their phone in the last year to get information about a health condition; about seven-in-ten have used their phone to do online banking or to look up information about job; 44% have consumed educational content on their phone; and 34% have used their phone to apply for a job.” “Behind Winston’s back the voice from the telescreen was still babbling away...of course no way of knowing whether you were being watched at any given moment” (2-3).
Subsequently, the celebrities that are symbols for these products become a product in themselves. In some cases, we buy products purely because a celebrity has worn it, endorsed it, or has been associated with it in another type of way. A consumer’s inclination towards materializing a lifestyle of a celebrity leads to the merging of the corporate and the self. This is extremely prevalent with the Kardashian family. The Kardashian family became celebrities through their reality television show Keeping Up with the Kardashians.
These technology changes the behaviors of people easily. It has become a new medium of advertising to the right people in the right place. Advertisers have found an effective way to manipulate people to get their
The companies also sell people’s private information to make a profit, which is making people’s private life into a “product.” Although customized advertisements are useful for buyers and positive for corporations, targeted ads invade people’s privacy because tech companies manipulatively use people’s browser histories to endorse products, and secretly sell people’s personal information for revenue, turning individuals into
E. Summary of major ideas: -all teenagers want their privacy to be respected and not to be Spied on. -if parents get caught while spying on their children’s emails
Chapter two; Literature Review The entire research journey is based on few important steps which can also be recognized as research process involving certain measures; to be carried out effectively. This process includes (Library, 2015); 1. Framing of a particular research question 2. searching and examining the relevant literature studies 3. Management of the accumulated search data 4.
In the modern age and current boom of communication technologies as they are playing a bigger role in our daily lives than they ever have. Current issues facing communications technologies are lack of privacy and transparency in the privacy settings of these technologies. Advantages of Communication Technologies Communications technologies have many positives in how they help us in our everyday lives. The technologies I will use as examples to name only a few are Skype, Facebook and Twitter. These technologies allow us to communication with friends and family from all over the world with messages, voice calls and video chats instantly via internet access, these technologies have moved from websites and computer programs to mobile applications which allow us even more ways to connect and share our lives .Twitter