His dignified deportment and clean-cut appearance make Hsieh very appealing to viewers. In an Internet survey of Taiwanese females in their teens and early twenties, he was selected as "the most handsome anchorman" in Taiwan, and came in second in terms of "the object of my sexual fantasies."
由於儀表堂堂、相貌端正，謝向榮很有觀眾緣，在一項網路針對 Y 世代女生所做的調查中，他曾被選為國內「最帥主播」第一名與「性幻想對象」第二名。