This paper provides an overview of the development of Internet advertising. We offer a broad overview of both online and offline advertising and the economic models that allow one to evaluate competition among advertisers. We focus on the extent to which various types of online advertising...

Privacy concerns can greatly hinder consumers’ intentions to interact with a website. The success of a website therefore depends on its ability to improve consumers’ perceptions of privacy assurance. Seals and assurance statements are mechanisms often used to increase this assurance; however,...

The digitization of commerce has caused fundamental changes in consumer information search and use. With an increasing number of consumers using search engines as an integral component of their online purchase process, online sponsored search markets, such as those provided by Google and Yahoo!,...

Online advertising is a new platform for marketers to create awareness and increase brand equity. The aim of this paper is to examine the impact of online advertising features on purchase intentions. Three features of online advertising were discussed and examined, i.e. multimedia, pictures and...

Websites commonly use animation to capture the attentional resources of online consumers. While prior research has focused on the effects of animation on animated banner ads, limited research has examined the effects of animation on other items on the same webpage. Drawing from psychological...

This study aims to examine 1. The effect of advertising on buying interest, 2. The effect of word of mouth on buying interest, 3. The effect of website quality on buying interest, 4. The effect of risk perception on buying interest, 5. The effect of advertising, word of mouth, website quality,...

Using detailed social broadcasting data from an online charitable giving campaign on Twitter, we evaluate two competing models of economic incentives on online pro-social behavior. Specifically, we focus on the effectiveness of gratitude-embedded messages on online charitable giving behavior,...

The increasing availability of individual-level data has raised the standards for measurability and accountability in digital advertising. Using a massive individual-level data set, our paper captures the effectiveness of display advertising across a wide range of consumer behaviors. Two unique...

A significant number of online ads served by publishers are actually never seen by Internet users. This results in ineffective branding campaigns and a considerable waste of money for advertisers. In reaction, more and more advertisers use technologies to measure the viewability of advertising...