Why Do Celebrities Should Be Boycotted

Celebrities play a major impact in today’s world. They have millions and millions of fans that interact with them every day. Each celebrity is famous for something that others may enjoy watching or listening too. So if companies see that, this guy has millions of fans of course they would want to use him/her to promote their company because it would increase their sales. Boycotting this would be absurd. Just because the NBA player promotes a car company doesn’t mean you should or have to buy that, they just promote it to get their names out there for customers to consider checking them out. Jozui claims that celebrities advertising companies should be boycotted and that advertisers shouldn’t be allowed to use them is just dumb. Just because someone tells a celebrity to promote their company doesn’t mean you have to buy it. It’s just a promotional idea. If celebrities don’t advertise companies first of all the companies wouldn’t be as successful, but secondly the celebrity wouldn’t make as much money. For example, Nike has endorsed many athlete celebrities who get paid millions to advertise their company. It doesn’t bother the athlete to wear Nike shoes, and it doesn’t hurt the company because they are the ones getting exposure from the …show more content…
A personal favorite of mine are the State Farm commercials about The Hooper’s. State Farm went out and had professional basketball players promote their company by acting out a commercial. By a consumer watching this, it might attract them into checking out State Farm as a potential insurance company. This promoting helps not just the company, but also the athletes acting out the commercial because personally some of the commercials seemed humorous. This reminds the consumer that if they find something appealing because of the person promoting the product that they can look into it and potentially buy/invest into