ANALISIS PENGARUH CELEBRITY ENDORSER'S CRITERIA TERHADAP BRAND IMAGE PADA PRODUK CLEAR COMPLETE SOFT CARE DI SURABAYA

Abstract

At the present, many large companies are trying to grab their market share lead to increasing competition in every industry, especially toiletries industry. In Indonesia alone there are three major companies that compete to gain a substantial market share among its PT.Unilever Inc., P & G, and Wings Group. Increasing competition in the more the strategies adopted to make the public and the company's Indonesian consumers interested in their products and choose those products compared with products from other competitors. The company has always tried to instill a better image to customers and communities in cooperation with one of its celebrities and athletes to promote their products. Selection of a good celebrity endorser will affect the brand image of a product which in turn leads to the desire to buy the product. This study aimed to analyze the celebrity endorser's criteria affect the brand image of the product shampoo Clear Complete Soft Care in Surabaya. The samples used in this research that people who live in Surabaya with a minimum age of 17 years which have seen the ad shampoo Clear Complete Soft Care with celebrity endorsers or consumer Agnes Clear Complete Soft Care shampoo with samples taken as many as 100 respondents. processing and analyzing the data in this study is by using linear regression analysis with SPSS 16.0 software as software for data processing. In the model used in this research illustrates that the variable of brand image is influenced by variables celebrity credibility, celebrity likeability, attractiveness and celebrity celebrity meaningfulness. Based on the calculation of the regression coefficients obtained by the celebrity meaningfulness variable has a positive and has a greater impact than a celebrity credibility, celebrity likeability and attractiveness of the celebrity brand image variables.