Professor provides insight on why car insurance companies use celebrity spokespersons

Published February 10, 2026
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College of Business

Hieu Nguyen, a professor in the Marketing Department at Cal State Long Beach, provided information to the online financial publication, , about why insurance companies utilize celebrities to endorse their products and services. Nguyen said the celebrity must be popular and favorable among the target market, otherwise it���s unlikely to be effective. However one risk in this approach is that celebrities might do or say something controversial which could damage the brand endorsed by the celebrity.