# Do You Really Care About A Celebrity Endorsement?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-really-care-about-a-celebrity-endorsement/525006>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [January 14, 2010, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-really-care-about-a-celebrity-endorsement/525006 "2010-01-14T23:35:02Z")\
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**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\
**Post date:** [January 15, 2010, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-really-care-about-a-celebrity-endorsement/525006/21 "2010-01-15T17:50:10Z")

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I wouldn’t care. There’s no celebrity nowadays who I even care about. The celebs I’m really into are either dead or in jail or nowhere well known enough to be endorsing soft drinks.

ETA: And in some cases, so insane that if they did endorse something I’d probably run screaming in the opposite direction…

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**Author:** ![Girl\_Next\_Door](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/977dab/32.png) [@Girl\_Next\_Door](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Girl_Next_Door)\
**Post date:** [January 15, 2010, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-really-care-about-a-celebrity-endorsement/525006/22 "2010-01-15T18:48:04Z")

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I initially read the OP subject line as “celebrity _endowments_”, thought of Liam Neeson, and then decided my answer was yes.

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**Author:** ![Hampshire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hampshire/32/4887_2.png) [@Hampshire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hampshire)\
**Post date:** [January 15, 2010, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-really-care-about-a-celebrity-endorsement/525006/23 "2010-01-15T19:51:40Z")

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> [@blondebear](#):
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> Manning and Timberlake endorsing Canon cameras? Meh.

Is it Canon cameras? For some reason I was thinking it was for Sony products. Actually I’m not really sure what it was for at all. I know the commercials and I think they are funny but I have really no idea what they were selling.  
There’s a ton of them like that. The commercials are memorable and the catch lines but I never remember what brand it’s for.  
“Like A Rock” trucks. Chevy? Ford? GMC? Dodge? I honestly have no idea.  
A big bunch of NASCAR guys promote a razor that gives a really close shave. But I have no idea which one. Schick? Gillette?  
Beer commercials are a dime a dozen. Plenty of funny ones out there. But I’d be hard pressed to match up the brand with the ad.

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**Author:** ![gang\_green](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/f07891/32.png) [@gang\_green](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gang_green)\
**Post date:** [January 15, 2010, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-really-care-about-a-celebrity-endorsement/525006/24 "2010-01-15T20:05:22Z")

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For a while, a local copier company was putting up billboards with endorsements from members and/or coaches of the UT football team. At least, that’s who I assumed they were, as I had no idea who they were. Thick necked jocks looking extremely uncomfortable in ill-fitting suits and equally ill-fitting smiles, telling me how great Copier Company X was.

Yeah. I’ll buy that. :rolleyes:

As for celebrity endorsements on the whole, don’t care about them. Don’t care about the commercials. I’ll go with personal experience, word of mouth and Consumer Reports.

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