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
- 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.
- Even when a celebrity represents several brands, pairings are mostly matched correctly, showing consumers have got used to this.
- Awareness of the Coca-Cola & Kıvanç Tatlıtuğ partnership is clearly highest among 18–24-year-olds.
- 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%).
- LC Waikiki’s partnership with İrem Helvacıoğlu had not yet settled in consumers’ minds; QNB Finansbank’s former face Yılmaz Erdoğan is still remembered.
- Consumers say seeing a celebrity they like increases trust in the brand; no woman in the study said such partnerships affected her negatively.
- 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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