Key figures

  • 18%Most successful pairing: Coca-Cola & Kıvanç Tatlıtuğ
  • 58%Awareness of Turkcell & Fedon
  • 70%Share of Turkish ads using celebrities
  • 384Interviews (12 regions, ±5%)

Key findings

  1. Mavi Jeans and Coca-Cola are the most remembered brands in celebrity TV ads; people who remember them correctly name Kıvanç Tatlıtuğ as the face.
  2. Even when a celebrity represents several brands, pairings are mostly matched correctly, showing consumers have got used to this.
  3. Awareness of the Coca-Cola & Kıvanç Tatlıtuğ partnership is clearly highest among 18–24-year-olds.
  4. Partnerships seen as successful: Coca-Cola (18%) and Mavi Jeans (11%) with Kıvanç Tatlıtuğ, Opet with Ata Demirel & Cem Yılmaz (8%), İş Bankası with Metin Akpınar (6%).
  5. LC Waikiki’s partnership with İrem Helvacıoğlu had not yet settled in consumers’ minds; QNB Finansbank’s former face Yılmaz Erdoğan is still remembered.
  6. Consumers say seeing a celebrity they like increases trust in the brand; no woman in the study said such partnerships affected her negatively.
  7. Still, the brand comes first: consumers do not want the celebrity to overshadow it.

About the research

Method
Online survey
Date
14–16 May 2018
Sample
384 interviews in 12 NUTS-1 regions, ±5% margin of error
Partner
The Brand Age

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