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ABSTRACT
The digital age has already made significant changes to each of the elements of the promotion
mix. Companies increasingly see the Internet as an important medium through which advertising
messages can be directed towards consumers. In the 21st century, consumers have more control over
advertising exposure with web advertising because they can select how much commercial content
they wish to view. However, very little is known of consumer perception about Web advertising,
attitudes toward Web advertising or Web advertising associated with consumer behavior. The
purpose of this study is to determine the attitude and perception towards online advertisement among
students and young professionals. The study gives insights into their attitudes and perceptions
towards online promotions.
1. INTRODUCTION
On line advertising is similar to other forms of communication except for one critical
difference that is Internet. Consumer behaviour follows a model radically different from traditional
advertising media. This model can be explained as the progression 'Awareness - Interest - Desire -
Action'. All these activities occur simultaneously in Internet advertising. Online advertising entails,
placing of electronic messages on a web site or email platform which achieves the following
purpose-
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Online advertising is a form of promotion that uses the Internet and World Wide Web for the
expressed purpose of delivering marketing messages to attract customers. Online ads are delivered
by an ad server. Examples of online advertising include contextual ads that appear on search engine
results pages, banner ads, in text ads, Rich Media Ads, Social network advertising, online classified
advertising, advertising networks and e-mail marketing, including e-mail spam.
2. LITERATURE REVIEW
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3. RESEARCH METHODOLOGY
• To identify consumer attitude and perception towards online advertising, among students and
young professionals
• To identify the factors that constitutes online purchasing behavior.
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Thus we can deduce that online advertisers have enough opportunity to target the internet
users. Therefore, companies must ensure that they effectively promote their products on the internet.
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From above graph it is quite clear that interactive advertisements are most influential.
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5. CONCLUSION
From the study it is found that frequency of checking online ads does not directly affected a
purchase. However, online ads are effective as awareness or branding tool and also play a part in
reinforcing Web users’ purchase decisions. This study identified four factors which are significant
predictors of customer attitude and perception towards online advertising: positive purchase behavior
enhances updation about products, engaging & time saving, and annoying. Among the four factors
positive purchase behavior plays the most important role. Also respondents perceive online
advertisements enhances updation about a product as it explain features effectively, keeps updated
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about products and are more convincing. Both these factors are result of beauty of this technology
viz. the usage of visuals and information. Companies must exploit this feature of internet through the
usage of coloured pictures and images of the entire product. In addition to the visuals, online
promotions serve an excellent purpose in description of the entire product and service. Also it was
found that online advertisements are perceived to be engaging and time saving. Interactive online
advertisements are most preferred by respondents, it has distinguished the Internet advertising from
traditional mass media, as traditional way could only present one way communication from
advertiser to the audience. Finally, online advertisements were also perceived to be annoying. The
respondents believe time is wasted due to online advertisements and they want there must be a way
to block online advertisements. The reasons for their annoyance with advertising seem to be its
ubiquitous nature and its increasingly intrusive nature.
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