AN EMPIRICAL STUDY ON THE IMPACT OF ADVERTISING ON BUYING BEHAVIOUR
INTRODUCTION
Advertising plays a vital role in a competitive era. With all major and minor players in the market trying to impress the ‘lord of the market’, the consumer, advertising becomes an important tool among others in trying to persuade the consumer to buy a particular brand. Whether new or old, market leader or new entrant, everyone has an advertising strategy. However, over the years, doubts have been raised on the effectiveness of advertising and its impact on consumers. In a lot of cases, the impact of advertising has found to be negligible and also to an extent negative since, people believe that advertisements is all about half-truth and full lies. Also, the lack
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2. Table Showing Time Spent on watching Television in Vadodara
Time N N%
30 Min. 78 15.6
60 Min. 134 26.8
120 Min. 222 44.4
180 or More Min. 66 13.2
Total 500 100
Mean (Minutes) 98
T-value 31.158 p=0.00
Chi Square 54.556 p=0.00
From the data collected, it was observed that majority of the respondents watch television for 1 hour to 2 hours (71.2%). This implies that there is substantial exposure to television advertisements. Apart from TV advertisements, respondents also are exposed to newspapers, radio and the internet. All the respondents surveyed in this research said that they read newspapers, listen to radio and use the internet.
After ascertaining the exposure levels of respondents to advertisements through various media types, detailed analysis was carried out specifically regarding the advertisements to which they are exposed on a routine basis.
Table No.3 shows which factor influences respondents the most when they are watching
Introduction Since the period of the 50’s television has had a significant impact on Australia through the influence of America. The Australian television industry started in the year 1950’s creating a strong foundation of TV and an introductory to a prospering industries change of nature throughout time. Even though television was already based in US and Britain before World War 2 occurred this brought major influences to Australia through the ownership of TV spreading popularity at the end of war all around Australia creating many struggles towards the industry in the period of 1950s and overcoming it through good and bad ways in the period of 1960. Beginning of Television In the year 1950 – 1954 the introduction of television was under the authority of the government policy.
It is obvious that media plays a significant role in our society. It affects every aspect of our lives - political, social, and cultural. In the various works including articles, lectures and films, Jean Kilbourne presents an insightful and critical analysis of advertising and its profound negative effect on all of us. She states that, “Advertisement creates a worldview that is based upon cynicism, dissatisfaction and craving” (p. 75). She discusses the issue in a very objective and impartial manner, “The advertisers aren’t evil.
Arzanagh and Danaei, (2013) confirmed that there is a considerable relationship among the advertisements and consumer’s attention, interest, desire, and action when the significance level is controlled to one percent. Arzanagh and Danaei , (2013) also found out a specific correlation between the four different factors of attention, interest, desire and action (Arzanagh & Danaei, 2013) Arzanagh and Danaei, (2013) observed that advertisements on TV has the upper hand in all other advertising methods on getting attention of the consumer, billboard advertising have the second place and lastly comes paper advertisement (magazine and newspaper) which is the least effective method to for gaining attention of the customer (Arzanagh & Danaei, 2013). Arzanagh and Danaei, (2013) surveyed that for attracting buyers’
The data were processed and analyzed using SPSS version 18. Frequencies, cross tabulation, Pearson’s, chi-square test, ANOVA were used to analyze the data. A p-value of <0.05 was considered statistically
Semiotic Analysis Essay Of a print advertisement Emelie Johansson CIU210 SAE Dubai Institute Media’s central role in our modern society, have become a sort of reference to how we make sense of our existence's and the world we are living in. Advertising companies are selling themselves in the best way possible through their marketing and are apart of the distorted picture we have of what’s real and normal. Even though we know how advertising tries to affect us, and we try not to believe it, we are being “manipulated” by the advertising we are exposed to. Melanie Dempsey and Andrew Mitchel did a study for the magazine ”journal of Consumer research” to show how much advertising really affect us without our knowledge.
Targeted Advertising: Helpful or Hurtful? Technology has challenged the rules of privacy, and people are questioning if privacy is a necessity anymore. Technology, specifically apple products such as iPhones, is a need in many people’s lives, and they cannot imagine not being able to check their phones for the weather or to ask Siri to find the closest restaurant. Unfortunately, people do not realize companies use technology for targeted advertising, which is an invasion of privacy. An invasion of privacy is when people’s private information is used to influence them and is given to other people or companies unknowingly.
Implicit Memory and Subliminal Advertising Implicit memory effects occur "when previous exposure to a stimulus (such as advertisement) influences our performance on subsequent tasks without the consumer remembering the previous experience or being aware of its influence on performance” (Fennis & Stroebe, 2016, p.72). Information processing in implicit memory is characterized as fast, parallel and effortless, as it does not need any conscious recollection of previous experiences (Chaiken & Trope, as cited in Fennis & Stroebe, 2016). Researchers have found that implicit memory for particular advertising elements tend to be more stable than explicit memory (Edell, 1993 as cited in Braun-Latour & Latour, 2004). The distinction between explicit
According to official statistics, two-thirds of people in China had access to television by the 1980s, while today; nearly 100 percent of the population has access to television. Even in some countryside and rural areas, more than 90 percent of people have access to television. Nowadays, there are altogether over 3,000 channels are available across the country. We can see the telecommunications in China were established rapidly. In china, the most popular leisure activity for people is watching television.
Consumer is one who consumes the goods & services product. The aim of marketing is to meet and satisfy the Consumer needs and wants. The modern marketing concept makes customers the centre stage of organisation efforts. The focus, within the marketing concepts is to reach target and largest customer’s sets ball rolling for analysing each of the conditions of the target market1. Consumer behaviour can be defined as “the decision making process and physical activity involved in acquiring, evaluating, using and disposing of goods and services”.
(Niazi et al 2012) A survey was conducted on effective advertisement and how it impacts consumers buying behaviour. This brought an outcome that advertising is one of the most effective tool to attract consumers positively towards the product. When a consumer gets emotionally attracted towards the product, he tries his best be use and try the product at least once. When the purchasing power of a consumer changes, it affects the purchasing level too side by side.
Literature review Advertising has become a form of communication and a great source for promoting services and products for any business in the whole market because of its broader impact. The main idea of an advertisement is to get the attention of the consumers, build up the product’s strong image in their mind and provide information to help the consumer to make a purchase decision. So, the central focus in today’s diverse global marketplace is the consumer. Companies exert a lot of effort to find out the best ingredients that should be in an effective advertising and identifying its influence on the consumer’s mind, so effective advertising should be considered as one of the most important tools that strongly affect and can change the consumer’s buying behavior. The research attempts to investigate the impact of effective advertising on the consumer’s buying behavior.
………………… ……………………………… Task 21 What is the variance of the time column in the pop.csv file? Solution to Task 21
Uses & Gratifications and the Reality Television context. Blumler and Katz’s ‘Uses and Gratification theory’ (1974) suggests that media users play an active role in choosing and using the media. This theory shifted the focus from what media do to the people to what people do with the media, thus it’s an audience centric theory. It examines the nature of audience involvement and gratification obtained from viewing the television.
Introduction “The term ‘misleading advertisements, is an unlawful action taken by an advertiser, producer, dealer or manufacturer of a specific good or service to erroneously promote their product. Misleading advertising targets to convince customers into buying a product through the conveyance of deceiving or misleading articulations and statements. Misleading advertising is regarded as illegal in the United States and many other countries because the customer is given the indisputable and natural right to be aware and know of what product or service they are buying. As an outcome of this privilege, the consumer base is honored ‘truth in labeling’, which is an exact and reasonable conveyance of essential data to a forthcoming customer.”
A creative advertising can lead to more memorable, longer lasting, works with less media spending, and builds a community faster. Lack of creative advertising, Pensonic Holdings Berhad is hard to inspiring people to buy their products. Ads that simply catalogue product attributes or benefits were not enough to attract the customer attention and positive attitudes about the products being marketed cannot lead to the customers (Werner & Peter, 2013). Effective advertisements are advertisements that help the advertiser to reach its goals (Doyle & Saunders, 1990). Other than that, According to most studies in different countries, revealed that TV has the biggest effects on audiences and persuade them to start purchasing processes.