Marketing Management
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Item Review On Advertising Creativity, Brand Personality And Celebrity Personality(Journal of Critical Reviews, 2020) Jinadasa, M.; Perera, R.P.; Dissanayake, D.M.R.; Weerakoon, R.Advertising is one of the vastly applied marketing communication tools in the world and creativity plays a significant role within resulting positive consumer evaluations. Meanwhile, celebrities are used in advertisements across the world reporting a tremendous rate of use in all types of media. Some argued that the effectiveness of celebrities is still questionable whilst many studies admire what it does for brand building strategies. There are theories and models explaining what makes celebrities effective for favorable brand evaluations. Meanwhile, studies signify brand personality as one of the facets of brand evaluations resulted by marketing communications. Empirical studies are found claiming further research works to examining the effectiveness of celebrities in developing perceived band personality. Arguments are found stating celebrity character and brand personality congruence is a viral combination whilst empirical thoughts suggest to further examine such relationships with reference to different cultures and product scopes. Accordingly, this paper reviews the literatures about how creativity is used in the advertising with special reference to the brand personality and the celebrity endorser‟s personality. Therefore, this paper produces an empirical discussion on creativity, advertising, brand personality and celebrity personality as the main components and conceptual relationships are reviewed accordingly. Paper followed a comprehensive literature review to discuss the empirical thoughts on main concepts. It made an attempt to prove the relationships amongst the main variables namely creativity of advertising, brand personality and celebrity personality whilst discussion was made to relate evidences in different countries and product scopes. Finally, paper concludes the significance of source-based factors and management-based factors to be considered when applying celebrity characters to result brand evaluations including brand personality.Item Influence of Advertising Creativity on the Relationship between Celebrity Personality and Brand Personality(Solid State Technology, 2020) Jinadasa, M.; Perera, R.P.; Dissanayake, D.M.R.; Weerakoon, R.Advertising acts as strong promotional mix element in marketing influencing brand communication activities to result favorable consumer responses. However, empirical and practice related arguments still question on the effectiveness of advertising in the cluttered media environment whereas creativity still plays a significant role avoiding such challenges. The effectiveness of creative advertising that results favorable brand evaluations has been claimed in empirical studies as a research direction. Additionally, practice related issues are reported claiming to examine the effectiveness of celebrity endorsed communication campaigns on brand related responses. Likewise, this study investigates how creative adverting could influence on brand personality as a form of brand evaluation whilst celebrity personality traits were also studied to determine the mediating effect within. It distributed 230 questionnaireswithinthe Western province of Sri Lanka followed by convenient sampling method and finallyanalysis was done based on 204 questionnaires properly filled. It employed StructuralEquation Model (SEM) by using AMOS-21 statistic package to do the hypotheses testing after Confirmatory Factor Analysis (CFA) is executed. Data analysis process followed the essentials for the dataset for normality and sample adequacy before employing the factor analysis for CFA.Item Celebrity Endorsement and Consumer Buying Intention With Relation to the Television Advertisement for Perfumes(David Publishing, 2017) Priyankara, R.; Weerasiri, S.; Dissanayaka, R.; Jinadasa, M.This present paper explores the celebrities appearing on television advertisements. The purpose is to identify the influence of celebrity endorsement on consumer buying intention in Sri Lanka. Television Advertising is one of the marketing communication tools used to receive the attention of the customer and build their loyalty to perfume brands. Celebrity advertisement is an important and frequently used marketing tool to directly influence the consumers’ purchase intentions. The aim of this study is to determine the effect of celebrity endorsement on customer purchasing intention for perfume brands. The survey method was used as the research method. Questionnaire was utilized in gathering information from the respondents in Colombo and Gampaha in Sri Lanka. Cluster sampling was used to select a sample size of 100 and collected data were analyzed descriptively using the SPSS 20.0 version. Correlation analysis was conducted to establish the nature of the relationship between the celebrity endorsers and consumer purchasing intention. Results showed significant relationship between the celebrity endorsement (likability, credibility, personality, attractiveness, and expertise) and consumer purchasing intention, so that all five hypotheses were accepted by this exploration.