{"title":"How Celebrities can be used in Advertising to the Best Advantage?","authors":"Laimona Sliburyte","volume":34,"journal":"International Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences","pagesStart":2010,"pagesEnd":2016,"ISSN":"1307-6892","URL":"https:\/\/publications.waset.org\/pdf\/14273","abstract":"
The ever increasing product diversity and competition on the market of goods and services has dictated the pace of growth in the number of advertisements. Despite their admittedly diminished effectiveness over the recent years, advertisements remain the favored method of sales promotion. Consequently, the challenge for an advertiser is to explore every possible avenue of making an advertisement more noticeable, attractive and impellent for consumers. One way to achieve this is through invoking celebrity endorsements. On the one hand, the use of a celebrity to endorse a product involves substantial costs, however, on the other hand, it does not immediately guarantee the success of an advertisement. The question of how celebrities can be used in advertising to the best advantage is therefore of utmost importance. Celebrity endorsements have become commonplace: empirical evidence indicates that approximately 20 to 25 per cent of advertisements feature some famous person as a product endorser. The popularity of celebrity endorsements demonstrates the relevance of the topic, especially in the context of the current global economic downturn, when companies are forced to save in order to survive, yet simultaneously to heavily invest in advertising and sales promotion. The issue of the effective use of celebrity endorsements also figures prominently in the academic discourse. The study presented below is thus aimed at exploring what qualities (characteristics) of a celebrity endorser have an impact on the ffectiveness of the advertisement in which he\/she appears and how.<\/p>\r\n","references":"[1] Agrawal J., Kamakura W. A. (1995). \"The economic worth of celebrity\r\nendorsers: an event study analysis\". Journal of Marketing. (Online).\r\n1995, Volume 3. 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