With the diversification of media, as the amount of ads posted increase gradually and the contents are diversified, as a part of strategy to increase the notice rate and the effect of ads through differentiation from other ads, as article-like ad and ...
With the diversification of media, as the amount of ads posted increase gradually and the contents are diversified, as a part of strategy to increase the notice rate and the effect of ads through differentiation from other ads, as article-like ad and ad-like article, advertorial increases, the boundary between articles and ads becomes more vague. Especially, connected with the recent long-term economic recession, as advertisers doubt the effects of ads of mass media more, the financial pressure of media companies leads to the will of business to attract ads actively providing flexibility about ad format to enterprises. The continuous increas of the amount of advertorial in new media like the internet and the increase of informative ads in a similar format to advertorial will make the distinction of such boundary lines.
The purpose of this study is, in studying the effect of advertorial which grows up even in the decline of recognition of consumers on ads and the avoidance phenomenon, comparative study of the effect of advertising only with the difference in the types of advertising between advertorial and general ad is not enough, to investigate that according to consumers' involvement and appeal type of ads, to examine the possibly direct impact on consumers' purchase behavior, selecting items of advertorial and assuring the need of establishment of message strategy, to provide basic data for practical guidelines.
This study was carried out with questionnaires through experiment products, and the ad to experiment was, to verify the topic empirically, made restructuring the actual product fitting into the recent trend of video, Samsung PAVV 3-D LED TV ad and the actual book ad of presentation techniques of Steve Jobs, the CEO of Apple into general ad and advertorial. Selecting the subjects of the experiment, the population was college graduate students in their 20-30s who were very interested the experiment products. The total number of the subjects was 204: 109 males and 95 females, and those in their age 20s, 100 and those in their 30s and more, 104 persons.
To sum up the results of research analysis, for both high-involvement products and low-involvement products, advertorial show higher reliability, usefulness, preference and purchase intention than general ads and overall, advertorial showed higher purchase intention than general ads. In addition, for advertorial, rational appeal showed higher reliability, usefulness, preference and purchase intention than emotional appeal, and for general ads, also, rational appeal showed slightly higher reliability, usefulness, purchase intention than emotional appeal.
Through such research results, first, to increase the stimulation of consumers’ purchase behavior for high-involvement product group, it is useful to consider producing and executing advertorials than general ads in newspapers; second, in low-involvement product group, it was found that producing and executing rational appeal type advertorials had more advertising effect than emotional appeal type general ads. By this, in establishing strategy of newspaper ads, when producing and executing advertorials, to maximize the stimulation of consumers’ purchase behavior, the level of consumers' involvement in product group and appeal type should be considered in advance, and also in the study of advertising effect of advertorials, not only study on effectiveness of advertisement type but also consumers' involvement in the advertised products and appeal type also should be considered in advance.