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Take Your Pick: Kate Moss or the Girl Next Door? The Effectiveness of Cosmetics Advertising

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  • Michael Antioco

    (EM - EMLyon Business School)

  • Dirk Smeesters

    (Rotterdam School of Management - RSM Erasmus University)

  • Aline Le Boedec

Abstract

In the last several years, marketers have started to use "nonidealized" models in advertisements (i.e., "Dove's Campaign for Real Beauty"). Little is known, however, about the effects of "nonidealized" advertising on consumers and whether this type of advertising-when compared to idealized advertising-is truly beneficial for the branded products promoted in these ads. Based on a sample of 347 French women exposed to either idealized or "nonidealized" models, the authors established that the way these advertising models have an effect on brand responses-specifically, the attitude toward (and the purchase intention of) a brand-operates through a dual-process model.When a viewer had a high sense of self-esteem, it was crucial that both processes be understood simultaneously: the effect of the portrayed model's body image on the brand responses can be suppressed by the model-evaluation process. The authors also note that consumers' ages influenced the self-evaluative process following a quadratic function.Their place of residence (i.e., urban versus rural) influenced the self- and model-evaluation processes.

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  • Michael Antioco & Dirk Smeesters & Aline Le Boedec, 2012. "Take Your Pick: Kate Moss or the Girl Next Door? The Effectiveness of Cosmetics Advertising," Post-Print hal-02312724, HAL.
    • Handle: RePEc:hal:journl:hal-02312724
    DOI: 10.2501/JAR-52-1-015-030
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    1. Safaa Adil & Ahmad Mostafa Abdeltawab & Danielle Lecointre-Erickson, 2021. "The Effectiveness of Model’s Body Size in Digital and Print Advertisements," International Journal of Marketing Studies, Canadian Center of Science and Education, vol. 13(3), pages 1-1, December.
    2. Denise Janssen & Leonard Paas, 2014. "Moderately thin advertising models are optimal, most of the time: Moderating the quadratic effect of model body size on ad attitude by fashion leadership," Marketing Letters, Springer, vol. 25(2), pages 167-177, June.
    3. Willian Feitosa & Carlos Eduardo Lourenço & Lígia H. Rezende & Noemi Saeki Sunago & Susana Costa e Silva, 2021. "A Quasi-Experimental Approach to Analyzing Sexual Appeal and Gender in Advertising – Evidence from Brazil," Tržište/Market, Faculty of Economics and Business, University of Zagreb, vol. 33(SI), pages 67-80.

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