Celebrity Endorsement: Why It Becomes a Trend in Food and Beverages Industry

This bond that is created between the viewer and a celebrity helps understand the effectiveness that endorsements have where marketers have failed. The celebrity builds character in the eyes of the public and that character carries on into the product he is endorsing, and even though a part of the persuasion has to exist in the product itself, but a celebrity uses his status and the character he has built to gain credibility and likeability among the target audience. This character the celebrity transfers to the product is known as the “meaning “(2). The transfer of the meaning to the product goes through three stages. The first stage is in finding the celebrity with the desired meaning that they want to carry to the product this requires casting from the wide world of celebrity endorsers. The second stage is choosing which celebrity embodies the meaning the marketing campaign requires for the product, this stage is subject to expense restraints and availability. After deciding on an endorser stage three is the most complicated stage as in this step the endorser has to be able to transfer that meaning into the product, they have to make this meaning “available to the consumer in a material form”(2), this stage allows the consumer to accept the meaning they are given and accept the product and you use is a tool to build their own character. These three steps not only

Celebrity Endorsement is a form of brand or advertising that involves a well-known individual using their fame to help promote a product or service. The most common business users of products are manufactures of perfumes, and clothing. Some Techniques that are used are for example, television ads and launch event appearances.

Al Ikhsan uses celebrities to represent the ideal customer or user of the firm’s products. The company’s advertisements present highly popular personalities, such as professional athletes. The target customers see that their favorite celebrities use the company’s products. As a result, the customers are motivated to mimic the behavior of these celebrities. Through the use of celebrity figures in advertising, Al Ikhsan’s marketing communications mix promotes the firm’s products to customers by motivating them to mimic how these celebrities prefer Al Ikhsan.

The author establishes a critical tone for consumers. Celebrities should not have to stop sponsoring products because it is the consumer’s responsibility to know and understand that celebrities

The author establishes a critical tone for consumers. The author believes that it is unethical to use celebrities to promote products of companies, however, it is fair and justified in free marketing, and it is the consumer’s choice to buy something or not, it is not the company’s

“The reality is people want a piece of something they can’t be,” says Eli Portnoy, a branding strategist. “They live vicariously through the products and services that those celebrities are tied to (Creswell pg. 12). It’s more accurate for an individual to buy something they see a celebrity drinking, wearing, or using because it looks good or looks cool, common sense tells us that if something is popular, it must be true and valid, but this is not in a society where smart marketing, and money can buy popularity. If a person is talking telling you the product will do certain things for you they are in authority and making it more believable. Popularity appeals appear in all different types of advertisements.

First of all, celebrities are ideal mediators for a capitalist consumer culture by representing ordinary individuals with extraordinary fame. By humanizing commercial commodities, celebrities present the comforting and familiar face of the corporal state (Hedges, 2009: 37). The association of a product with a celebrity essentially promotes the product, similar to an advertisement. Initially, a new product without any bit of credibility makes consumers wary. By merging celebrities that consumers are likely to recognize with a product, consumers are more likely to purchase the product due to familiarity. For example, if a new cereal brand were to be released to the grocery store, shoppers would be suspicious of the safety of its consumption. Televising a short advertisment of Lady Gaga eating that cereal brand humanizes the product and comforts the shopper to buy the cereal. This economical use of celebrities may benefit the corporal business, but leaves into question of the state of the celebrity as well as the consumer. Celebrities, or the ‘human pseudo-event’, act as role models, or at least influential points of society, for the consumption of the public. Hedges states, “Commodities and celebrity culture define what it means to belong, how we recognize our place in society, and how we conduct our lives” (Hedges, 2009: 16). Ordinary people

Celebrities can have a significant influence on their consumers’ choices because they are influential. For example, Lebron James, a famous basketball player, has been advertising for the Sprite company. This shows that company believes the stars, such as Lebron James can help advertise and promote their company because consumers will believe that Sprite helped Lebron James become a skillful basketball player. As a result, this will influence consumers to buy and drink Sprite.

Celebrity endorsements are one of the most famous methods of marketing used today. Celebrity endorsers are being used in about 25% of all the advertisements that we can see on the television. Marketers are investing large sums of money to have a contract with the celebrities as they believe that celebrities can affect the chances of success of a product. (Erica Weintraub Austina*, 2008) Kiakati

Celebrity endorsement is a billion dollar industries today (Kambitsis et al., 2002) with companies signing deals with celebrities hoping that they can help them stand out from the clutter and give them a unique and relevant position in the mind of the consumer. According to Solomon (2002), the reasons for using celebrity endorsement involves its potential to create awareness, positive feelings towards their advertising and brand. Research has shown that celebrity endorsement can have an impact on the consumer’s attention, recall, evaluations and purchase intentions (Atkin and Block, 1993), Celebrity endorsement is a widely used tactic in marketing and much research

This paper analyses the various effects of celebrity endorsements on consumer buying behavior through a descriptive study. With a sample size of 100, top of mind awareness of various brand endorsed by a celebrity was explored. It also analyses cognitive dissonance among consumers, various factors which influence consumer buying behavior and whether any downfall in the celebrity’s image also affects or brings down the brand’s image. The participants in the survey were indifferent to the negative controversies regarding their favourite celebrities. The experimental study revealed that product features have more impact on the consumer buying but still most

This Proactiv advertisement advertises the product using celebrity endorsement as well as sending implicit messages. The text in this advertisement explicitly shows many claims that Proactiv works such as “helps clear and prevent acne blemishes with a three step system.” As well as “works on all types of acne, effective on all skin types and try it 60 day, risk free!” The main slogan that they use is referring to Katy Perry and it says “what’s the secret to her success, she’s Proactiv.” Other components of this advertisement include visuals such as the product itself and a photo of Katy Perry. Although this advertisement seems simple it implies that in order to be successful you have to be physically attractive. A stereotypically

Celebrities have relative perfection, where they are often portrayed as “perfect” through advertisement and media. Research has proven that if a celebrity endorses a product successfully, then the consumers will believe the endorsement is credible, believable, and appealing (Ohanian). This is why one might try to emulate a celebrity by buying the things certain celebrities endorse. The reasoning behind this is that buying the products and services that celebrities supposedly use in their own lives can help one achieve the perfection of a certain celebrity or celebrities in general. However, such relative perfection is only seen on screen, and the celebrity-endorsed products and services are often not the reason behind a celebrity’s relative perfection. In the case of gluten-free diets, its rationality is not questioned because of the endorsements of celebrities, such as Miley Cyrus, who supposedly experienced health benefits by avoiding gluten.

Examples of when consumers have been influenced by a certain celebrity or icon, to determine the consumption of a product.

Furthermore there are other researches as well which suggest that the approach of using a celebrity to endorse a product can not be viewed as a general practice of using any celebrity for any product endorsement. Pornpitakpan (2003), while discussing match-up hypothesis, describes the results of a study by Erdogen et al (2001) which suggests that "British advertising agency managers considered various criteria like celebrity- target audience match, celebrity-product match, overall image of the celebrity, cost of hiring the celebrity, celebrity trustworthiness, controversy risk, celebrity familiarity, celebrity prior endorsements, celebrity likeability, risk of celebrity overshadowing the brands, celebrity expertise, celebrity profession and celebrity physical attractiveness". A match between the target market and the endorser is important for effectively transmitting right message to target audience. For example, the advertisements which are produced by Pepsi, are mostly targeted for youths and so the celebrity endorsers that they use in their advertisements are young personalities. The match up hypothesis goes true for the multiple celebrity advertising as well. A good example of this is the Pulse Polio campaign taken up in India to eradicate the polio