Chapter 11: Endorsers and Message Appeals in Advertising Flashcards
What determines an Endorser’s effectiveness?
- Credibility (internalisation)
- Attractiveness (identification)
- Power (compliance)
Define credibility.
Consumer’s acceptance of the endorser’s position on an issue as his or her own.
What does credibility consist of?
- Expertise: perceived knowledge, experience, or skills possessed by source
- Trustworthiness: perceived honesty, integrity, and believability of a source; degree of honesty depends on the audience’s perception of the source’s intent.
Define attractiveness.
identifying with the endorser and adopting of the endorser’s attitudes, behaviours, interests, or preferences.
What does attractiveness consist of?
- Similarity, familiarity and liking
2. Includes intellectual skills, personally properties, lifestyle characteristics, athletic prowess, etc.
Define power.
Compliance occurs when an individual is persuaded by an advertised source because they hope to achieve a favourable reaction or approval from the source.
Typical-person endorsements:
- show regular people using or endorsing products
- avoid the backlash from using “beautiful people” who may be resented
- real personal experience of the benefits of the particular brand grants a degree of credibility (Georgia Love)
- it is more effective to use >1 endorser
The 5 components in the TEARS model of Endorser Attributes.
- Trustworthiness - honest, believable, dependable
- Expertise - having specific skills, knowledge, or abilities with respect to the endorsed brand
- Physical Attractiveness
- Respect - quality of being admired or esteemed
- Similarity - extent to which endorser matches an audience in terms of demographic
Practical issues in selecting Celebrity Endorsers.
- Celebrity and audience matchup
- Celebrity and brand matchup
- Celebrity credibility
- Celebrity attractiveness
- Cost considerations
- Working ease or difficulty factor
- Saturation factor
- The trouble factor
Define Celebrity audience matchup.
Will target market positively relate to this endorser?
Define Celebrity and brand matchup.
Celeb’s behaviour, values, appearance and decorum be compatible with image desired for brand.
Define Celebrity credibility.
People who are trustworthy and perceived as knowledgeable about the product category.
The Role of Q scores
LECTURE SLIDES
Define incongruity
When meaning of an ad is not immediately clear; surprise
List the advantages of humour.
- attracts attention
- enhances liking of an ad/brand
- does not hurt comprehension
- does not harm persuasion
- does not harm source credibility
- nature of product affects appropriateness of using humour (e.g. feeling-oriented; under low involvement).