The purpose of this study was to analyze the effects of the advertisements using celebrities as guests for TV home shopping programs. In general, the advertising models may be divided into celebrities, professional models and ordinary people. In case ...
The purpose of this study was to analyze the effects of the advertisements using celebrities as guests for TV home shopping programs. In general, the advertising models may be divided into celebrities, professional models and ordinary people. In case of TV home shopping, one or two show hosts explain about the product being advertised, or a guest joins the show host(s) to provide for information about the product or enhance its image. The guest may be either a celebrity or an expert involved directly or indirectly in the product. In particular, celebrities tend to appear in the 5 TV home shopping programs frequently, as in the ordinary advertisements. For this study, a hypothesis was set that consumers'' attitudes towards the TV home shopping programs, products or their purchasing intention would differ significantly depending on show hosts, guests or other information sources. Another hypothesis was set that the information sources for TV home shopping programs would interact with the levels of consumers'' engagement in products, and that consumers'' attitudes towards programs and products and their purchasing intention would be affected by such interactions. In order to test the hypotheses, the following study points were set up; Study point 1) How would the effects of the home shopping programs differ depending on the information sources (celebrities, experts, no guests)? Study point 2) How would the effects of the home shopping programs differ depending on interactions between consumers'' engagement in products and information sources (celebrities, experts, no guests)? Study point 3) Would consumers'' cognitive responses (attraction and reliability) to TV home shopping programs differ depending on their information sources (celebrities, experts, no guests)?In order to find the answers to the above questions, the following hypotheses were set up to be tested. Hypothesis 1) The effects of the TV home shopping programs (consumers'' attitudes towards programs and products or their purchasing intention) would differ significantly depending on the information sources (celebrities, experts, no guests). Hypothesis 2) Those consumers engaged highly in the products would respond more favorably (in terms of their attitudes towards programs, products and their purchasing intention) depending on the information sources (celebrities, experts, no guests).Hypothesis 3) Consumers'' cognitive responses (attraction and reliability) to TV home shopping programs would differ depending on the information sources (celebrities, experts, no guest). In order to test the above hypotheses, 7-minute-long TV home shopping program were produced by using different information sources, and then, they were shown to a sample group who would respond to a questionnaire survey. As a result, the hypothesis 1 that the effects of the home shopping programs would differ depending on information sources was rejected. Namely, the TV home shopping programs were not affected by their information sources in terms of consumers'' attitudes towards program and product as well as their purchasing intention. On the other hand, the hypothesis 2 that the TV home shopping programs would be affected by interaction between consumers'' engagement in product and information sources in terms of consumers'' attitudes towards program and product as well as their purchasing intention was adopted partially. Namely, consumers'' attitudes towards program and product and their purchasing intention differed significantly depending on the level of their engagement in product, but there was found no significant effect of the interaction between such an engagement and information sources. On the other hand, as a result of testing the hypothesis 3 that consumers'' cognitive responses (attraction and reliability) to TV home shopping programs would differ depending on the information sources, it was found that consumers were attracted most to the home shopping program showing a celebrity and that such a program was most reliable to consumers. This study analyzed how the effects of the TV home shopping programs would differ depending on their information sources (celebrities, experts, show hosts only) under the circumstance that few preceding studies had reviewed the same subject. As shown in the result of testing the hypotheses, it is suggested that TV home shopping producers who want to maximize the sales should cast celebrities, experts or other guests in consideration of their attributes (attraction and reliability) as well as consumers'' level of engagement in products, while selecting the messages carefully.