Which Products Are Best Suited to Mobile Advertising? A Field Study of Mobile Display Advertising Effects on Consumer Attitudes and Intentions

Journal of Marketing Research, Vol. 51, No. 3, pp. 270-285, June 2014

49 Pages Posted: 28 Mar 2012 Last revised: 2 Nov 2014

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Yakov Bart

Northeastern University - D'Amore-McKim School of Business

Andrew T. Stephen

University of Oxford - Said Business School

Miklos Sarvary

INSEAD - Marketing

Date Written: January 26, 2014

Abstract

Mobile advertising is one of the fastest-growing advertising formats. In 2013, global spending on mobile advertising was approximately $16.7 billion and it is expected to exceed $62.8 billion by 2017. The most prevalent type of mobile advertising is mobile display advertising (MDA), which takes the form of banners on mobile webpages and in mobile applications. This paper examines which product characteristics are likely to be associated with MDA campaigns that are effective in increasing consumers’ favorable attitudes towards products and purchase intentions. Using data from a large-scale test-control field experiment covering 54 U.S. MDA campaigns run between 2007 and 2010 and involving 39,946 consumers, we find that MDA campaigns significantly increased consumers’ favorable attitudes and purchase intentions only when they advertised products that were higher (versus lower) involvement and utilitarian (versus hedonic). This finding is explained using established theories of information processing and persuasion, and suggests that when MDAs work they do so by triggering consumers to recall and process previously stored product information.

Keywords: mobile advertising, marketing, advertising, mobile, mobile display advertising, elm, persuasion, consumer behavior

Suggested Citation

Bart, Yakov and Stephen, Andrew T. and Sarvary, Miklos, Which Products Are Best Suited to Mobile Advertising? A Field Study of Mobile Display Advertising Effects on Consumer Attitudes and Intentions (January 26, 2014). Journal of Marketing Research, Vol. 51, No. 3, pp. 270-285, June 2014, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2029496 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2029496

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