It is common these days to see celebrities advertising different products? Do the advantages of this outweigh the disadvantages?

Advertising has been a very popular way of marketing since a long time ago. Recently, there is a trend to hire

celebrities

to represent or advertise

products

, which brings benefits and drawbacks. In my opinion, the negative impact is greater than the positive one, and in

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elaborate.

First

of all, it is costly to employ

celebrities

to represent a product ,

as a result

of which, big sums of money are spent on advertisement

instead

of investing in research and development of the

products

, and

thus

, compromising the quality of the

products

.

Furthermore

, it is a misleading approach as the

celebrities

themselves might not necessarily use them, but merely to get paid for advertising them.

For instance

, a football star drinking an energy drink in an advertisement will make viewers think he is energetic because of the drink, but the truth might be

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only occasionally consume it.

Besides

, we can not deny the influence of famous stars ,especially on the younger generation, who are very impressionable. If a movie star is featured in an advertisement promoting cigarettes ,

for example

, the younger crowd will tend to follow as it is presumed to be a trendy thing to do . It will bring major disadvantages to society as not only it creates an opportunity for a bad habit to be formed, but it

also

costs parents a lot of money in order for their children to pursue the

products

. The winners in

this

situation would be both the

celebrities

and the companies, who walk away with a lot of fortunes generated from poor consumers . In conclusion, using

celebrities

to promote goods bring more drawbacks than advantages. Consumers need to be wise in choosing a product and approach advertisements with a pinch of salt to avoid becoming the victims of

such

business tactics.