2017
DOI: 10.21834/jabs.v2i3.188
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Celebrity Endorsement in Advertising: A double-edged Sword

Abstract: The advertising market has become more cluttered and competitive now and everywhere. To highlight their brand, advertisers are turning to celebrities as endorsers. They are willing to invest significant amount of monies to juxtapose their brands with celebrity's attributes like attractiveness, expertise and trustworthiness. They believe that the celebrity's qualities might transfer to their brand, thus produce favourable campaign results. However, celebrity endorsement is not without potential risks. The purpo… Show more

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“…Most of the respondents considered celebrities untrustworthy, given that celebrities were mainly entertainers without expertise in traditional medicine, and that celebrities were paid to speak on behalf of conservation NGOs. This finding corroborates prior studies showing that celebrity endorsement is a double‐edged sword (Muda, Musa, & Putit, 2017). Duthie et al.…”
Section: Discussionsupporting
confidence: 91%
“…Most of the respondents considered celebrities untrustworthy, given that celebrities were mainly entertainers without expertise in traditional medicine, and that celebrities were paid to speak on behalf of conservation NGOs. This finding corroborates prior studies showing that celebrity endorsement is a double‐edged sword (Muda, Musa, & Putit, 2017). Duthie et al.…”
Section: Discussionsupporting
confidence: 91%
“…Even under low involvement, the important determinants of consumer perception will be information sources such as celebrity endorsements (Lee and Lee, 2009). The celebrities instead of being very expensive in terms of money have an intangible effect on consumer attitudes and behaviour (Muda et al , 2017).…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…The image of a celebrity needs to be suitable to the product advertised. The perfect congruence between endorser and product may lead to great endorser believability through identification process and favorably influence consumer attitudes toward ads and products as well as purchase intention (Langmeyer and Walker, (1991); Kirmani and Shiv, (1998) as cited in Muda & Musa, 2017). Fourthly, the familiarity of celebrity also affects the attitude towards social media advertising, It can be explained by the frequency of the celebrity seen in print media and internet.…”
Section: Resultsmentioning
confidence: 99%