...Impact of Celebrity Endorsements on Brand Image Debiprasad Mukherjee* August 2009 * Debiprasad Mukherjee is a Business Process Management Consultant in IT Telecom domain. He has experience of working with Siemens, IBM, and Tech Mahindra in India and abroad. He holds Post graduation in Management from Indian Institute of Social Welfare & Business Management, India and Bachelor in Technology in Electrical Engineering. His areas of interest are Brand Management, Consumer Behavior, Advertisement, Customer Relationship Management, Data Warehousing, Business Intelligence, Master Data Management etc. Email:- debiprasad.mukherjee@techmahindra.com / debiprasad.mukherjee@gmail.com Contact: - Techno India Building, 6th Floor EM-4/1, Sector V, SaltLake, Kolkata-700091, INDIA Tel No: +91 334002 8146 / +91 9830318394 This paper can be downloaded from the Social Science Research Network Electronic Paper Collection: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1444814 Electronic copy available at: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1444814 Abstract Celebrity endorsement has been established as one of the most popular tools of advertising in recent time. It has become a trend and perceived as a winning formula for product marketing and brand building. It is easy to choose a celebrity but it is tough to establish a strong association between the product and the endorser. While the magnitude of the impact of celebrity endorsement remains under the purview of gray spectacles, this paper is an effort to analyze...
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...| 2 | Reasons for celebrity endorsement | 5-6 | 3 | Effects of celebrity endorsement | 7-8 | 4 | Conclusions | 8-9 | 5 | Bibliography | 9-10 | Question 1 Consider brands like Olay Malaysia ©, D’Herbs ©, Maixara © and Revlon © each brand appointing celebrities as their product ambassador. How does the use of celebrity endorsement enhance brand awareness and brand image? 1. Introduction How does the use of celebrity endorsement enhance brand awareness and brand image? First, we need to understand what celebrity endorsement is. Definition of celebrity is an individual who is known to the public (Friedman & Friedman, 1979). Brands like Olay Malaysia ©, D’Herbs ©, Maixara © and Revlon © appointing celebrities as their product ambassador to communicate brand images and information to consumers. People tend to overlook a lot of adverting and marketing tactics in this fast-paced life but people hardly goes unseen of the presence of a celebrity. Many researches report that customers have a need to gain an insight about the lives of celebrity personalities, which is why celebrity can catch consumer attention easily. Many organizations use celebrities in their marketing in hopes that it will have positive impact and drive up sales. Advertisers believe that the use of a celebrity affects advertising effectiveness, brand recall and recognition, as well as purchase intentions and follow-through (Spryet al., 2011). Celebrity can be used for endorsements in four ways. They...
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... 27 Impact Analysis Framework 29 Case Studies 34 Conclusion 37 Facts and Figures 40 References 45 INTRODUCTION “A sign of celebrity is that his name is often worth more than his services.” -Daniel J Boorstin And this is what exactly the marketers took as a firm base to advertising industry. We people are diehard fans of movie and sports stuff, and this characteristic of consumers has invited the concept of endorsing celebrities from different fields namely movies, sports, glamour, fashion, modelling etc for different brands. With several products being launched every other day, advertisements for each one of them may go unnoticed but even then the glamour of celebrities seldom gets unnoticed. The celebrity fits in between the producers and consumers where he tries to bring the image of the product closer to the expectations of the consumer. Thus endorsing a celebrity for a product and its overall impact on the brand is very significant...
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...International Journal of Advanced Research in Management and Social Sciences ISSN: 2278-6236 IMPACT OF CELEBRITY ENDORSEMENT ON BRAND EQUITY IN COSMETIC PRODUCT S. Sivesan* Abstract: In the present business environment, marketers are using different kinds of marketing strategies to achieve the organizational goals. Celebrity endorsement is one of the marketing strategies which are adopted to achieve the organizational goals. Celebrity endorsement advertisements have been known as ‘ubiquitous feature of modern marketing. This study attempts to measure the impact of celebrity of endorsement on brand equity in the cosmetic product. For this purpose, 123 respondents were selected by using systematic random sampling methods. The data analysis covered correlation, regression, and rank order by using the version 16.0 of SPSS package. Results revealed that celebrity endorsement and brand equity are positively correlated with the value of 0.3394 which is highly significant at one percent level. A result of the regression analysis is celebrity endorsement 0.44 which means 44 percent impact on brand equity. This study would hopefully benefit to the academicians, researchers, policy makers and practitioners through exploring the impact of celebrity endorsement and brand equity. Keywords: celebrity endorsement, brand equity, advertisement *Lecturer, Department of Marketing, Faculty of Management Studies and Commerce, University of Jaffna, Sri Lanka Vol. 2 | No. 4 | April 2013...
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...THE IMPACT OF CELEBRITY ENDORSMENTS ON THE YOUTH of Pune Symbiosis Centre for Management Studies Pune Acknowledgment To accomplish whatever we have done in our assignment, there were many people along the way who have been responsible for guiding us, advising us, encouraging us and even reprimanding us. To them, We are deeply grateful and would like to take this opportunity to offer our heartfelt appreciation. First and foremost, we would like to thanks Mrs. Anjali, our Research Methodology teacher, who's continuous guidance and encouragement has helped us reach where we have today. Her knowledge about the subject along with her helping advice always led us in the right direction. We are highly thankful to her. Secondly we would like to thank all the students who spared their time and filled our feedback form. without them coming to precise conclusions would have been very difficult. We would also like the thank our college for giving us the opportunity to learn in depth research methodology. STUDENT’S DECLARATION OF ORIGINAL WORK This declaration is made on the ……………..day of……………..2013.. Student’s Declaration: We, NoopurKhare, Nakul Singh , Mayank Punjabi, SahilPrabhu, hereby declare that the work entitled“THE IMPACT OF CELEBRITY ENDORSMENTS ON THE YOUTH OF PUNE” is our original work. We have not copied from any other students’ work or from any other sources except where due reference...
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...Impact of Celebrity Endorsement on a Brand chillibreeze writer — Saurbh Katyal (REF: http://www.chillibreeze.com/articles/Celebrityendorsement.asp accessed on 20 August 2012) "A sign of a celebrity is that his name is often worth more than his services.” - Daniel J Boorstin INTRODUCTION The motif behind total branding may be decocted as an attempt to amalgamate diverse activities to win customer preference. Apropos to this context, the topic “Impact of celebrity endorsement on overall brand”, is a significant one. The crescendo of celebrities endorsing brands has been steadily increasing over the past years. Marketers overtly acknowledge the power of celebrities in influencing consumer-purchasing decisions. It is a ubiquitously accepted fact that celebrity endorsement can bestow special attributes upon a product that it may have lacked otherwise. But everything is not hunky-dory; celebrities are after all mere mortals made of flesh and blood like us. If a celebrity can aggrandize the merits of a brand, he or she can also exacerbate the image of a brand. If I may take the liberty of rephrasing Aristotle’s quote on anger, “Any brand can get a celebrity. That is easy. But getting a celebrity consistent with the right brand, to the right degree, at the right time, for the right purpose and in the right way... that is not easy.” Celebrity endorsements are impelled by virtue of the following motives: Instant Brand Awareness and Recall. Celebrity values define, and refresh the brand...
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...Celebrity Advertising: Literature Review and Propositions Peter Yannopoulos* In this paper we review several studies in the area of celebrity advertising. Topics include, why companies use celebrity advertising, achieving the right fit between the brand and the celebrity, the use of athletes as spokespeople, financial considerations of celebrity advertising, and potential risks of celebrity advertising. Next, we develop several propositions and discuss the conclusions and managerial implications of the research. Field of research: Celebrity advertising, Celebrity endorsers, Sponsorship, Celebrity spokespeople 1. Introduction A celebrity endorser is “an individual who is known to the public (actor, sports figure, entertainer, etc) for his or her achievements in areas other than that of the product class endorsed” (Friedman & Friedman 1979). Sponsorship is defined as “providing support for and associating the organization‟s name with events, programs, or even people such as athletes or teams” (Peter & Donnelly 2006). Corporations have chosen both sponsorship and celebrity endorsement as means to increase exposure and brand awareness, as well as reposition their products. The terms celebrity endorsement and sponsorship will be used interchangeably in this report. It has been estimated that about 10% of the dollars spent on television advertising are used in celebrity endorsement advertisements (Agrawal & Kamakura 1995). Because of its importance, it is imperative for managers...
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...The Impact of celebrity endorsement on Sproutworks brand image Kristina Matviyenko Assignment 4 Academic Writing December 25, 2015 Table of Contents Title Page…………………………………………………………………………………… 1 Abstract……………………………………………………………………………………… 3 Introduction..…………………………………………………………………………….…. 4 Background………………………………………………………………………………. 4-5 Literature Review…………………………………..…………………………………... 5-6 Research Question………………………………………………………………………. 6 Discussion and Conclusions………………….………………………………………… 6-7 Recommendations ………………………………………………...........................…... 7 References ……………………………………………………………………………….... 8 Abstract This report describes the theory behind selecting an effective celebrity endorser to match the brand identity and to enhance the brand image for an emerging health-focused restaurant chain - Sproutworks. Industry expertise is an important criteria of selecting the right endorser to represent the brand. Matching the right type of celebrity personality with the brand idetity is another crucial factor in determining the succsess of the endorsement strategy. The unique feature of the Chinese consumer, as previous research suggests is that the personal life such as values, morality, social position, marital status, etc; of the celebrity is often considered to be among the top priorities in the eyes of the consumer and has direct effect on brand evaluation. Further the report aims to analyse the effects of implementing celebrity endorsement and makes suggestions on...
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...ENDORSEMENTS: A CRUSIAL AND CONTROVERSIAL PART IN ADVERTISEMENTS When you go for shopping in a supermarket and you come across many brands of various products. When you see a brand, it immediately reminds you of the celebrity who has endorsed or promoted the brand. For instance, Lux may remind you of Shahrukh Khan, Ashwariya Rai or even Katrina Kaif. The image of the celebrity in the ad leaves a lasting impression on your mind which motivates you to buy the product. Endorsements, by famous celebrities, whose personality matches that of the product help to create certain impressions of that brand on consumers. For eg. Bipasha Basu has an image of fitness freak and hence endorses Sugar Free Natura. Endorsements play an important role in making the advertisement successful. Endorsements of celebrity with great persona attracts customer to buy that product. India is a nation where people easily believe what their favorite celebrities say. And when it comes to celebrities like Amitabh Bachchan and Rajnikant, who people idolize and have a great respect for, any endorsement by them will highly influence consumers and their buying behavior. Even Sachin Tendulkar and Shahrukh Khan have a great fan following. Sachin being a famous sports personality do attract kids and youngsters who are sports enthusiast. Hence being a sports celebrity, an energy drink, Boost is endorsed by Sachin Tendulkar and even another famous cricketer Kapil Dev. Similarly Pepsi and Lays have gain popularity with...
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...References Title | Keywords | Model / Variables | Impact Of Celebrity Endorsed Advertisements On Consumers (Anjum, et al., 2012) | Advertisements, Brand, Brand equity, Celebrity, Credibility, Endorsed | Celebrities Endorsement (Appendix 1) | Celebrity endorsement, brand credibility and brand equity (Spry, et al., 2009) | Celebrities ,Product endorsement, Brands, Australia | Celebrities Endorsement Conceptual Framework (Appendix 2) | Global Beauty Industry Trends In The 21ST Century (Łopaciuk & Łoboda, 2013) | global beauty industry, global market for cosmetics and toiletries products | Global Cosmetic Trends (Appendix 3)Global Retail Trends (Appendix 4) | Effective Advertising and its Influence on Consumer Buying Behavior (Ghulam Shabbir Khan Niazi, 2012) | Environmental response, Emotional response, Consumer buying behavior | Research Model (Appendix 5) | Exploratory analysis of global cosmetic industry major players ,technology and market trends (Kumar, 2005) | Cosmetic industry; Toiletry industry; Cosmetic industry analysis; SWOT analysis; Cosmeceuticals; Globalization | Global Market Size (Appendix 6) | An Exploratory Study of the Types and Roles of Skincare Advertising Visuals in Magazines (Hingorani, 2008) | Skincare Advertising, Visuals, Magazine Advertisements | Advertisement Elements (Appendix 7) | On the relationship between store image, store satisfaction and store loyalty (Josée Bloemer, 1997) | store image, store satisfaction and store loyalty | Conceptual...
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...the utilization of celebrity-athletes on endorsements are very much common. Everyone is aware of the fact that numerous athletes are being contacted by various companies to co-present their products; whether it may be a sports or a non-sports brand product or services. But what we do not know is the concept of how much of an impact the celebrity-athlete impact gives to the audience. It is explained in this part the difference between an athlete’s endorsement on sports brand and an athlete’s endorsement on non-sports brand. It is also stated in this chapter the effects of the two, of what is being perceived by consumers and how they are going to respond based on attitude. Athlete endorsement One of the most common approaches to increase sales is the use of athlete endorsers as to continuously remind them of the product (Ruihley, 2010). According to a study, for an endorsement to be effective, the chosen athlete endorser must be amid the leading performers of his or her career and must seem to have a reliable attitude to the purchasers. (Ruihley, 2010). In a consumer’s point of view, in promotions, it is more engaging and consistent when a celebrity is being used as the endorser; as this forms brand image. (Sertoglu, 2014) But still, efficiency of the celebrity may vary on the type of product being endorsed (Kamins, 1990; Solomon 2007) Sturdier purchase intentions resulted by the use of celebrity to endorse (Upadhyay, 2010) Stereotypically, celebrities, who are considered...
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...Celebrity Endorsements According to David Lamoureux, the average consumer sees 3000 to 20000 forms of advertisement a day (2004). One of the most frequent and successful forms of advertisement in this day and age is the use of celebrity endorsement (Gnanapragash, et al, 2004). Celebrity endorsement is the use of famous individuals who demand a high level of respect, trust, recognition and awareness globally or nationally. Such people lend their name and image to promote a product or service (Elberse, Anita, and Jeroen Verleun, 2012). Although the literature covers many theories as to why we use celebrity endorsements, this review will focus on three main themes which are constantly mentioned in the literature. These themes are: Determinants of Celebrity endorsement, reasons for increased usage of celebrity endorsements, advantages and disadvantages of this approach as a brand building strategy. The paper will primarily focus on endorsements as a brand building strategy even though the literature presents these themes in a variety of context. 2. Determinants of Celebrity Endorsement A celebrity endorser is “an individual who enjoys public recognition and who uses this recognition on behalf of a consumer good by appearing with it in an advertisement” (McCracken, 1989, page 310). Friedman and Friedman state that “a celebrity endorser is an individual who is known to the public for his or her achievement in areas others than of the product class endorsed” (Friedman...
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...INTRODUCTION: As we look into a comparative analysis between Animated advertisements and celebrity advertisement wherein first lets discuss about what actually both are .As we all know that celebrity endorsements are very popular and persuasive as per advertisers but now when graphics industry is on boom and where maximum movies and advertisements are adapting technology in order to persuade customers we will trying to find out that what actually changed after technological changes .Through this research paper we are trying to find out that weather animated advertisement are more influencing or its still the celebrity endorsement gaining the preference. Celebrity ,is a person who has distinct image in society it could be an actor ,actress, sportsmen politician etc.However its their skills ,attitude and attribute in order to convince prospects to buy the product .There are number of well known example of celebrity endorsement such as ,lux by sharukh khan,Suzuki hayate by Salman Khan ,bournvita by sachin tendulkar,revital,navratan ,horlicks ,airtel etc are few good examples of celebrity endorsements.Endorsements is a brand communication in which a celeb act as a spokesperson for a brand ,in such a competitive atmosphere celeb ads. Are considered to be distinct differentiation . Animated advertisement is not a new technique but it gradually affected the way and trend of selling a good earlier it was pretended that when a person goes low with the budget...
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...A Study on How Celebrity Endorsers of Bench and Penshoppe Affect the Buying Behavior of Assumption Communication Students A Thesis Presented to The Department of Communication Assumption College In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirement For the Degree of Bachelor of Communication Major in Advertising Stephanie Rae D. Galeos Rameya Christelle C. Ramoso February 18, 2013 Chapter 1 The Problem and the Review of Related Literature Background of the Study Advertising is predominant to everyone. People are bombarded with advertisements. They rely on it; it makes their lives easier. Easier because they can get information from all the types of advertisements they see and hear everyday – print, billboards, online, television, radio, etc. Advertising can be perceived as an answer to one’s needs (basic and daily necessities) and wants (what they buy, but they do not need). Each of us is different, so we all have our perceptions toward a brand/product or other advertisements we see or hear. However, companies still look for the real reason why consumers buy, what they buy, and when they buy. This is because it will help them know what brand/product or service to offer in order to satisfy them, and possibly maybe, let them become loyal buyers/users. Consumers buy as they aim to satisfy their needs and wants. Consumer needs are their basic and daily necessities, while wants are the things they buy, but they do not really need, those which will improve/enhance...
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...does celebrity endorsements influence consumer behavior in fast fashion industry? 1. Introduction The fashion industry has come a long way over the past two decades. In the early years, big players such as Marks & Spencer offered a relatively straightforward fashion retail choice. However, with the lower cost of starting a retail outlet, the market has become more crowded since then. So called fast fashion retailers, are by no means the only one who succeeded and grew over the past years. Overall, the fast fashion retailers experienced a greater growth compared to the fashion industry as a whole (Cachon and Swinney, 2011). Such retailers are now ubiquitous and spotting a person on the streets who does not wear at least one fast fashion clothing item is rare. The key point to success lies in their business model; making the trends available to everyone. The rapid global changes have restructured the way fashion retailers do business. In today’s competitive market, using celebrity endorser to promote brands on television is a fairly common practice (Erdogan et al. 2001). Celebrity endorsements is believed to help consumers remember the message of the advertisement and the brand name the celebrity is endorsing. This creates the personality of a brand because when a celebrity is paired with a brand, this image helps shape the image of that brand in the minds of consumers (Argrawal & Kamakura, 1995). Celebrity endorsement is a new strategy in brand selling...
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