Trend In The Use Of Human Models In The Advertising Industry
The utilization of human models in the advertising industry has witnessed a notable evolution in recent years, reflecting shifting consumer preferences and market dynamics. This trend underscores the increasing emphasis on authenticity and diversity, as advertisers seek to resonate with a broader audience base. Beyond conventional standards of beauty, there’s a growing demand for models representing a spectrum of ages, body types, ethnicities, and identities, aligning with the principles of inclusivity and representation. Moreover, the rise of social media platforms has facilitated the emergence of influencer marketing, where relatable individuals with significant online followings serve as brand ambassadors, leveraging their personal narratives to engage with consumers authentically. As advertisers navigate this landscape, strategic selection of human models has become paramount, not only to captivate attention but also to cultivate meaningful connections and foster brand loyalty in an increasingly discerning marketplace.
This research focused on Trends in the use of Human Model in the Nigeria Advertising Industry. This study consists five chapters, the first chapter cover and introduction of study. The research problem, objectives of the study, formulation of hypotheses, the significance, the limitations and the scope of the study was also tested in this chapter.
Chapter two described the theoretical framework and related literature review. In chapter three, Research methodology was covered while chapter four dealt with Analysis and presentation of Data Besides Hypothesis Testing. The summary, conclusion and Recommendations for further study were made in chapter five.
The research is carried out through the method of survey research. The empirical aspect of the work is carried out using information obtained from both sample of consumers age groups and five advertising agencies in Enugu and Lagos they use model in advertising products or services.
The core of this study is to analyse the effectiveness of using models in advertising and its ethical implications.
Based on these, three hypotheses were formulated.
1. H: Modeling is a very effective advertising strategy in Nigeria
NH: Modeling is not an effective advertising strategy in Nigeria.
2. H: Models used in advertising is seen as ethical by Nigerians.
NH: Models used in advertising is seen as unethical by Nigerians.
3. H: Models influence prospective buyers on the purchase of products.
4. Television and bill-boards are the best among the models.
5. Television is the best vehicle to use models in advertising.
Based on the above findings, some recommendations made are
1. Advertising agencies should incorporate modeling service on their organization so that such models used could be specifically, and efficiently trained for the specific product to suit the marketing objection
2. Greater emphasis should be made on the use of local models in advertising product especially cigarette.
3. Since modeling has been found to be effective as advertising strategy, efforts should be made to increase the rate paid to models in order to encourage people to go into professional modeling schools to train the young ones is recommended.
4. It has been found that use of models in cigarette advert significantly affect consumers below twenty years, therefore, efforts should be made to restrict cigarette advert to such programmes which will not attract the ago groups below twenty, since they are more influenced by the models used in cigarette advertisement.
Title Page
Approval Page
Dedication
Acknowledgement
Abstract
Table Of Content
List Of Tables
Chapter One
1.1 Introduction
1.2 Problem Statement
1.3 Objective Of The Study
1.4 Research Questions
1.5 Formulation Of The Hypotheses
1.6 Significance Of The Study
1.7 Limitation Of Study
1.8 Scope Of The Study
1.9 Definitions Of Terms
Reference
Chapter Two
2.0 Review Of Related Literature
2.1 Concept Of Advertising In Nigeria
2.2 Brief History Of Advertising Agencies In Nigeria
2.3 Models, Modeling And Modeling Agency In Nigeria
2.4 Modeling As Aid To Effective Advertising
2.5 Advertising And Marketing Psychology
2.6 Cigarette AdvertisementIn Electronic Media
Reference
Chapter Three
3.0 Methodology
3.1 Research Design
3.2 Research Method
3.3 Determination Of Sample Sized
3.4 Data Analysis
3.5 Expected Result
Chapter Four
4.0 Analysis, Presentation And Interpretation Of Data
4.1 Presentation And Analysis Of Data
4.2 Analysis And Interpretation Of Data
Chapter Five
5.0 Summary, Conclusion And Recommendation
5.1 Summary Of Findings
5.2 Conclusion
5.3 Recommendations
Bibliography
Appendixes
INTRODUCTION
Advertising is any paid form of non-personal presentation and promotion of persons, institutions, ideas, goods or services, by an identified sponsor using appropriate medium or media of communication. According to the Cable news network (CNN), advertising gives us the right to choose, in the market place. It induces immediate sales and builds sustainable image for a product.
Advertising also informs buyers about products that ate new in the market as well as remind them about old ones almost forgotten due to lack of publicity on them. It tells about names of such new products and where to get them. Using well know models to advertise products or services creates arousal of interest if viewers identify such products or services with the models.
Advertising practitioners/advertisers hold the view that when celebrity models are used for promotion of goods or services, the loyalty of the garget audience is won. The use of models in advertising stem, from the marketing concept and also emanates from the fact that advertisers and advertising agencies realized the power influence and importance of associating notable personalities or even good looking people with product identity in order to achieve the following reasons:
1. To attract the attention of prospective buyers.
2. Improve the sales of the products by associating it with such models.
3. To get buyers to be favourably disposed to the products.
4. To propagate the brand
5. To improve on the brand image
6. To add value to advertising and communications industry.
World wide use of model in advertising has remind a remarkable instrument of increasing business activities because the appeals drawn will be very effective in advertising and will attract much concern where attitude change is involved. As a result, some developments have been with eased in the advertising industry within the least twenty years in the area of supportive services as radio and television production, research and out door services. These are activities and ventures where modeling services are required.
To day, advertising industry use models in several ways either on television or advertisement on the pages and covers of various magazines, newspapers, journals calendars, bill-boards, and posters.
Hogarth (1968) asserts that there are many different ways in which models are used in advertising and further stated how complex the world of advertising can be if one stops to think about models used in advertising. The models could be trained, untrained, celebrities, seductive and non-deductive. But of all the models used. Celebrity models seem to be the most effective in advertising.
White Hooper (1946) sees celebrity endorsements as finding either an authority star personality, or entertainer, who will associate himself/herself with your product, in some positive fashion, that will enhance its popularity with the television audience”. This study which was conceived out of a sense of strong interest in models used in advertising, coupled with the fact that too little was known about models used in advertisements by the modeling agencies or advertising agencies is intended to find out the influence of these models in advertisements. Most of the advertising firms operate through modeling agencies and majority of the models are represented by these agencies with their contracts being established by their representatives. But no rule exists that model must be represented by an agent, as some companies have been incorporated to provide and train models for modeling.
The purpose of a modeling agency is to avail advertisers/advertising agencies the services of trained and experienced models required for advertising of goods or services, since modeling seems to play important roles in the advertising industry, especially in accelerating appeal for goods and services as well as improving sales of influence models now have no the audience in promoting of goods and services .
PROBLEM STATEMENT
In Nigeria today, use of models in advertising has become one of the sophiscated marketing strategies employed in advertising operations. Watching the televisions, one sees and listen to an innumerable number of advertisements of products and services like peps, cola, Elephant blue detergent, lux toilet soap, star lager beer, jik bleach etc. Each of these products were advertised by models, mostly celebrities, it is important to remember that modeling has now reached a highly competitive stage, and huge efforts and finance are being invested yearly by the industry. Whether these efforts are justifiable or not depends on the effectiveness and the ethical implication of modeling.
The problem, however, is that in Nigeria there s a poverty of studies on the effectiveness and ethical dimensions of modeling in advertising. This study is geared towards helping to solve this problem in the Nigerian context.
OBJECTIVE OF THE STUDY
The objectives of this study are as follow
1. To provide an indepth understanding of meaning of models and modeling in advertising
2. To examine the ways models are being used
3. To find out people that are required to be models
4. To find out whether models have any influence on prospective buyers
5. To find out if the use of models in adverting is very effective
6. To find out if the use of models is considered ethical or unethical.
HYPOTHESES
Hypotheses are tentative supposition put forward to determine facts and give solution to problems. Based on the problem definition and the objectives of the study previously stated, the following hypotheses are to be tested or investigated to find out whether models help in the advertising industry or not.
1. H Modeling is a very effective advertising strategy in Nigeria.
2. HO: Modeling is not an effective advertising strategy in Nigeria.
3. H2 Use of models in advertising is seen as ethical by Nigerians.
HO Use of models in advertising is seen as unethical by Nigerians.
H3 Models influence prospective buyers on the purchase of products.
Ho models do not influence prospective buyer on the purchase or products.
RESEARCH QUESTION
The research question of this study is as follow
1. Do human models have effects on the advertising industry?
2. Do Human model tend to prompt the Advertising industry in Nigeria?
3. Which class of the Human models is most preferred?
4. Do Human models Advertising have negative or positive effect on them?
SIGNIFICANCE OF THE STUDY
The significance of this study depends largely on the set of objectives of the research. Based on this, it will help to bring out the influence and effect of models on the prospective buyers and their influence could be anything ranging from negative to positive or neutral. It will also aid in deciding whether model enhance the creditability of the advertisement, and the product or service advertised or worse still, whether it detracts from the creditability of the advert.
There is need for modeling services (support personnel) in the promotion of goods or services. Given that some of the advertising problems that plague the industry are being models and modeling agencies used, it is hope that the study will no doubt help the advertiser and advertising agency to adopt improved modeling services as a strategy which would enhance the overall advertising performance in the industry.
LIMITAIONS OF THE STUDY
A research effort of this nature is usually thought with some problems and limitations the framework of this study would have been based on models used in various advertising media but its scope will be limited to advertisement on television, radio, magazines, bill boards and poster, in Enugu and Lagos metropolis.
Advertising research involves cost in terms of survey, collection of data, preparation of questionnaire and production of concluded research work. meanwhile, some respondents never completed the questionnaires administered on them as they continued to shift attention from them. And even the one completed were not retuned.
Dearth of relevant literature on the models and modeling agencies used in advertising became a problem because there was lack of accurate data on th models used in advertising. Even when approached they refused giving details on how they use models in advertising for fear of the competitors.
SCOPE OF THE STUDY
The study will cover selected Advertising agencies in Enugu and Lagos, especially Lagos because Lagos is a commercial center in Nigeria that has a large population. It will have a good representations of the consumers that will be surveyed to find out how effective and how ethical modeling is in Nigerians, Advertising industry .
OPERATIONAL DEFINITIONS
ADVERTISING: Is any past form of non presentation and promotion of ideas, goods and services by an identified sponsor. Advertising can be run both in the print or electronic media using the basic visual audio communication materials eg. In the newspaper using photographs, etc. or radio/TV using voicing or sound effect.
AGENCY: Is an organization that creates communication messages and they gets them exposed via the various media, to the audience with the objective of receiving its commission.
MODEL: A person called upon or employed to be photographed, or to display or demonstrate certain products or services to possible buyers in order to compel action. An acclaimed model must operate within the known standards, rules, regulations, or procedures of the profession.
MODELING: It is an art of making models working as a model, take up a career in modeling agency.
EFFECTIVE: Making a strong impression or influence on the intended result.
ETHICAL: It describes ethic which is a system of moral principles or rule that govern or influence a person’s behaviour.
CELEBRITY: They are star or role used in adverting products or services, it could be television stars, actors actresses, sport figures or entertainers whose appearance in the advertisement of such goods or services sustains the interest of his /her audience on the goods or services so advertised.
CONCEPTUAL DEFINITIONS
1. Advertising: Making generally or publicly known persuade publicly in order to encourage people to buy or use it.
2. Agency: The means fore or substance that produces an effect or changes.
3. Model: A person use to display or demonstrate certain produces or services to possible buyers in order to compel action.
4. Modeling the act of making a model.
5. Effective: Producing the result that was wasted or intended.
6. Ethical : Connected with principles of what is right and wrong.
7. Celebrity: A famous person specially some one in the entertainment business.
CONCETPUAL DEFINITIONS
RESEARCH QUESTIONS:
1. What are the effects of human model in the Advertising industry in Nigeria?
2. Is modeling an effective advertising strategy in Nigeria?
3. How does Human model effect the consumer a perception of the particular product?
4. Does Nigerian accept modeling advertising as a profession?
5. Can model advertising in Nigeria be compare to what is obtained in the advertising industries in the foreign countries?
Trend In The Use Of Human Models In The Advertising Industry:
The use of human models in the advertising industry has evolved over the years, reflecting changes in societal attitudes, technological advancements, and marketing strategies. As of my last knowledge update in September 2021, here are some trends and developments related to the use of human models in advertising:
- Diversity and Inclusion: There has been a growing trend towards inclusivity and diversity in advertising. Brands are increasingly featuring models from various ethnic backgrounds, genders, body types, and ages to better represent the diversity of their target audience. This reflects a broader societal shift towards promoting diversity and inclusivity.
- Authenticity: Consumers are demanding authenticity in advertising. Brands are moving away from overly photoshopped and airbrushed images in favor of more natural and unfiltered representations of models. This trend aims to promote a more realistic and relatable image in advertising.
- Influencer Marketing: Social media influencers have become a significant part of the advertising landscape. Many brands collaborate with influencers who serve as both models and endorsers. Influencers often have a loyal and engaged following, making them valuable assets for advertising campaigns.
- User-Generated Content (UGC): Brands encourage their customers to create content for them, including photos and videos featuring their products. UGC often features real customers as models, which can create a sense of community and trust around the brand.
- Virtual Models and CGI: Some brands have experimented with virtual models and computer-generated imagery (CGI) to represent their products. Virtual models offer a level of creativity and control that is not possible with human models. However, this trend also raises questions about the authenticity of the content.
- Body Positivity and Empowerment: There is a growing movement promoting body positivity and empowerment in advertising. Brands are featuring models of different body shapes and sizes to challenge unrealistic beauty standards and promote self-confidence.
- Sustainability: In line with the broader sustainability movement, some brands are choosing models who align with their environmental and ethical values. Models who are involved in activism or support eco-friendly causes are increasingly sought after.
- Personalization: Advances in technology and data analytics enable brands to personalize advertising content. This includes tailoring models and images to match the preferences and demographics of individual consumers.
- Remote Photo Shoots: The COVID-19 pandemic accelerated the adoption of remote photo shoots. Models can participate in shoots from anywhere in the world, allowing for flexibility in casting and production.
- Ethical Considerations: As consumer awareness of ethical and labor practices in the fashion and modeling industries grows, brands are under increasing pressure to ensure fair treatment and compensation for models. Ethical considerations are becoming a crucial factor in model selection.
Please note that the advertising industry is highly dynamic, and trends may have evolved since my last update in September 2021. To stay current with the latest trends in the use of human models in advertising, it’s essential to follow industry news and marketing publications.