The big question is, though, how effective are these marketing ploys? Am I really going to go out and buy Proactive Acne Solution because I think it will do for me what it did for Jessica Simpson? National studies buy the FCC have said yes. As Sue Jozui’s brilliant and accurate statement says, the audience subject to celebrity oriented advertisements is expected to relate approval of the particular celebrity with the approval of the product. This is true, and certainly insults the intelligence of the target audience. This particular form of advertising by celebrities is effectively analyzed in Maslow’s.
