Using testimonials in advertising: The comparison of attitudes towards expert testimonial advertisements and consumer testimonial advertisements

Advertisements aim to persuade consumers and create positive attitudes towards the product and/or the brand. Advertisement creators and brands also try to provide this with marketing and advertisement strategies and executions. One of these execution format is testimonial advertisements. It is possible to mention about three kinds of testimonial advertisements as consumer testimonial, expert testimonial and celebrity testimonial.Advertisement creators aim to constitute credibility and reliability, authenticity and sincerity on consumers towards the brand and/or the product by using testimonial advertisements. In this research, the attitude constituted on consumer towards consumer testimonial and expert testimonial will be compared and the evaluation of the consumer on making use of consumers and experts on the advertisements will be presented.