Kelman's source characteristics

Kelman's source characteristics identify three characteristics of successful marketing communications sources:

  1. source credibility
  2. source attractiveness
  3. source power.

Source attractiveness

An attractive source is one that the receiver can identify with, or aspire to. The message from such as source is identified with by the receiver; e.g. "slice of life" advertising, for products such as washing powder, regularly feature actors in situations that are intended to reflect the lives of the target segment.

Source power

A powerful source is intended to bring about compliance in the receiver. An example would be a police officer giving an anti-drink drive message.

gollark: I wanted to automate presentations with a language model and a bunch of formatting templates but never got round to actually doing it.
gollark: It *would* be very funny, though.
gollark: Or appear ambiguously dead by not appearing in the video except enshrouded in shadow.
gollark: I see.
gollark: I don't think more general vaccinations are likely to be available that soon.
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