Info about Celebrity Gossip
How is Celebrity a 'Celebrity'?
What actually makes a celebrity a 'celebrity'?
Is it talent; is it that 'bad guy image', supporting a cause, being a part of controversies and scandals? What is it that drives millions to them? How famous is the celebrity actually? What is his market worth?
For evaluating this celebritycontest.net has developed a mathematical concept which measures fame and popularity of a celebrity on the basis of the frequency and timings of news pertaining to that celebrity.
What does a Celebrity mean?
But what is a celebrity actually mean? A celebrity is a renowned, famous or well known person or individual. And it also offers a very broad definition. A celebrity can be a celebrity due to all the wrong doings and wrong reasons too. The point is that he is 'well known' irrespective of the reason why? This method simply measures the amount and level media glare, attention, stardom and popularity a celebrity enjoys.
Measuring Popularity
A few decades ago, it was a tedious job to assess a celebrity's worth index in terms of popularity; it meant collecting articles, columns written on a particular celebrity in a tabloid or newspaper and counting them. However with the advent of internet things have become more convenient. Almost all newspapers and magazines have the e-paper version enables millions of fans to get a piece of their favorite celebrity's life. Online, one can get a huge amount of scoops, hot news, gossips etc which is not included in the tradition version of a newspaper. Search engine has become the latest and the fastest way to instant stardom. One has to just type in a keyword on the search browser and that leads to more than thousands of search results then the frequency of searches on a particular celebrity and then polls are conducted on the most searched celebrity online. These online portals have more entertainment related news than the traditional version due to ample spaces, so fans who love to read about their favorite stars can just log in and get access to endless articles, scoops, news and gossips. Sometimes celebs have accounts on various social networking portals and micro-blogging sites and the number of fans or friends of a particular celebrity also indicates the fan following and its popularity.
The method of assessing the popularity of a celebrity seems to be quite reliable as it evaluates the number of portfolios added in favor of a particular celebrity. However if his popularity has gone down due to any reason there will be a noticeable drop in the figures. Celebrity contest.net also measures a person's market value of a celebrity.
Popularity is a double-edged sword
Celebrities have a personality, are media friendly, have the ability to strike a chord with millions, follow the right PR activities However here are no hard and fast ways to stardom. And yes, popularity is a double edged sword, though celebrities enjoy the all the attention initially, it starts bothering them when their personal space is invaded and put in the lime-light.