A warm-up question and three carefully worded open-ended questions were used to guide
the sessions (for translations, see the Appendix).
The participants can give multiples
responses.
The session started by showing a board displaying four full-color snapshots
extracted from then-current television commercials using celebrity endorsers.
All four commercials had been broadcast repeatedly in evening prime time within the previous six
months.
These commercials featured popular local celebrities endorsing product categories
that interviewees were familiar with, for example, confectionary.
Brand identifications were removed in the snapshots. As a warm-up, the interviewees were asked to identify the endorsers shown and to recall the brands they were endorsing in those advertisements.
It is not intended to be a quantitative measure of recognition and brand name recall.