The persuasiveness of an advertisement differs according to a model and the character of the model. Therefore,casting a suitable model who is capable of improving the image of a product, brand or a company in an advertisement is so important that the ...
The persuasiveness of an advertisement differs according to a model and the character of the model. Therefore,casting a suitable model who is capable of improving the image of a product, brand or a company in an advertisement is so important that the original purpose of an advertisement, purchase of the consumer, depends on it.
On casting a model which is an important strategy, the most dominantly used one is to hire a celebrity for advertising. However, even though a celebrity model who the most frequently appears on advertisement is considered to be attractive, it does not guarantee that it is always effective and trustworthy to the consumer. There has been critics on casting an advertising model based on the model's attractiveness and level of recognition without considering the individual character of the advertising model.
This study set out from the critics mentioned above and investigates the correlation between advertising effect and attractiveness, one of the characters of an advertising model. In detail, it measures the brand review, advertisement review, brand attitude and purchasing intension of the consumer according to the model appears in the existing advertisements. In particular, it focused on the effect of a celebrity , a chief executive officer, a recognized expert and a typical consumer appear in an advertisement. Through this investigation, this study aims to explore the advertising effect of advertisement according to the model on the consumer.
Through a research on the attractiveness of an advertising model and advertising effect, the characters which consist the attractiveness of an advertising model were abstracted as familiarity, similarity and likability. With an assumption that the consumer exposed to advertisement more positively response to it when they meet attractive models according to the result of existing research. This study investigates the advertising effect focused on the character of the advertising model's attractiveness. furthermore, the famous model it leans and it exuviates the research tendency until of all now. To be specific, the brand review, advertisement review, brand attitude and purchasing intension were measured focused on the familiarity, similarity and likability of a celebrity model, a chief executive officer, a recognized expert and a typical comsumer model to inspect the advertising effect on the consumer. Research problems are selected as follows.
[1] What relationship des the attractiveness of an advertising model have with the credibility of an advertising model?
[2] What relationship does the attractiveness of an advertising model have with the level of attention on the advertisement?
[3] What relationship does the familiarity of an advertising model havewith the advertising effect?
[4] What relationship does the similarity of an advertising model have with the advertising effect?
[5] What relationship does the likability of an advertising model have with the advertising effect?
A survey was conducted for this study and total 266 questionnaire from the collected questionnaire was analyzed. Analysis result, the consumer reliability of the celebrity who appears in the advertisement, chief executive officer, a recognized expert model and the typical consumer model. In essence, as the trustworthiness and expertess higher, the consumer favor in more similarity, familiarity of that models.
In general, the consumer who is exposed to an advertisement get a favorable impression of the advertising model when they have more attention on the advertisement. It exhibits that the more attention the consumer has on an advertisement, the more favorable impression of the advertising model the consumer has without connection to the type of the model. The investigation on the relationship between advertising effect and the components of an advertising model's attractiveness, familiarity, similarity and likability, proved that the attractiveness of an advertising model does not have any relation with review of brand or advertisement.
In the meantime, this study confirmed that when the consumer exposed to an advertisement feel familiar with a chief executive officer, it has influence on the brand attitude and purchasing intension. It was also confirmed that when the consumer feel that a celebrity model, a chief executive officer and a recognized expert are similar to them, it influences the advertising effect. It contradicts the result of post studies that the consumer feels similarity when a typical consumer model is used and it enhances persuasiveness.
On the other hand, this study also proved that when the consumer has high favorable impression on a celebrity or a recognized expert model, it has positive influence on advertising effect. It supports studies which suggested that a celebrity has physical advantage on attractiveness and level of favorableness.
To conclude, unlike appearance of only the celebrity, chief executive officer and therecognized expert model also shows very efficient effect on advertisement. it needs to be seriously reconsidered if the rapidly increasing appearance of a celebrity on advertisement is always effective. About this matter, this study checked that not only the appearance of a celebrity but appearance of a chief executive officer or a recognized experts as an advertising model is also effective.
Therefore, further study on diversified models and what character of a model appeals best to the consumer along with its' relation with advertising effect is required.