the increasing penetration rate of mobile phone, with specific characteristics of this medium, such as almost everywhere with the audience, has attracted companies' attention to it as an advertising channel. mobile devices facilitate highly customized marketing communication in terms of person, time location and context so numbers of companies that use this medium for communicating with th...

Mobile Advertising, a wireless media, acts as an advertising tool for promoting goods and services. The mobile phone is no longer just communication since it has also become commercial channel of products Many companies are currently using Advertising potential marketing have profound influence on day-to-day business activities. So the present work to study attitude behaviour users toward SMS a...

Mobile advertising, or m-advertising, refers to ads sent to and presented on mobile devices such as cellular phones, PDAs (personal digital assistants), and other handheld devices.1 M-advertising can be seen as a part of mcommerce (e.g., Mennecke & Strader, 2003), which is seen as radically different from traditional commerce (e.g., Choi, Stahl, & Whinston, 1997). Thus, it can be argued that m-...

This study focuses on permission-based mobile advertising (m-advertising) and its specific features that make it different form other forms of advertising. However, as m-advertising is a novel approach, advertisers or advertising agencies do not know how to use it’s full potential. Therefore, the paper explores retailers’ use of mobile advertising in Finland and discusses the features of mobile...

Research into permission-based mobile marketing is increasingly common due to the widespread adoption of mobile technology and its use as a communication channel. Yet few studies have attempted to analyze the factors that determine attitudes toward mobile advertising while simultaneously considering: the links among them and consumers' intentions, behavior, and/or cognitive and affective variab...

This study is rooted in the research traditions of cultivation theory, construct accessibility, and availability heuristic. Based on a survey with 221 subjects, this study finds that familiarity with direct-to-consumer (DTC) print advertisements for antidepressant brands is associated with inflated perceptions of the prevalence and lifetime risk of depression. The study concludes that DTC adver...

The study examines consumer responses to SMS-based mobile advertising campaigns using a field experiment with actual behavioral responses. Specifically, the effects of message characteristics (i.e., incentives and prior permission) and individual differences of message recipients (i.e., content involvement, prior experience with the mobile medium, and medium-fit perceptions) on the attitudinal ...

Wireless advertising is becoming a hot topic due to the fast development of wireless networking and technology and significant increase of mobile device users. Recently, eTForecasts and Global Mobile quoted that in year 2000 Mobile voice use, which has 468 million users, is surpassing 365 million wired Internet users. This makes wireless advertising a new and hot marketing channel to reach the ...

This paper explores issues relating to the effectiveness of permission marketing initiatives. The goal is to analyze sales response of a permission marketing program along with its sales effectiveness compared to a simultaneous traditional advertising program. It attempts to determine the ability of permission marketing initiatives to yield segmentation descriptors.