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Ganjar Mohamad Disastra, Fanni Husnul Hanifa, Astri Wulandari, Widya Sastika
Marketing Management, School of Applied Science
Telkom University
Bandung, Indonesia
ganjar@tass.telkomuniversity.ac.id
Abstract—This research seeks to investigate consumer socializing, banking, booking tickets for traveling and even
perceptions of mobile advertising value that appears on their ordering their groceries. The increasing use of mobile devices
mobile devices, how their attitude towards these advertisements, creates opportunities for marketers to utilize the media to
and how consumers purchase intention in the advertised product. advertise their products. Advertising through mobile devices is
Furthermore, this study also tries to uncover the influence of often known as mobile advertising.
advertising value on consumer attitudes and their impact on
purchase intention. The research method used in this study is a However, the effectiveness of using mobile advertising still
quantitative method by applying the Structural Equation needs to be investigated, considering that advertising itself is
Modeling (SEM) technique to the primary data, which is often negatively addressed by consumers. Advertising is seen
obtained through questionnaires. The sampling method used was as something that is annoying and disliked by consumers [2],
purposive sampling with a total of 200 respondents. The findings so that consumers tend to avoid advertisements that come to
of this research showed that respondent's perception of mobile him [3].
advertising value is differ based on its dimensions, the
entertainment level of mobile advertising value is "low", the According to previous research, advertising must be
informativeness level are "moderate", while the irritation level is preferred by consumers to be effective [4]. The reason is that
"high". In the other hand, respondent’s attitude on mobile advertisements favored by consumers will attract their
advertising are “moderate”, while respondent’s purchase attention, thus creating brand awareness of the products
intention on mobile advertising products are surprisingly “low”. advertised. If the ad gets the attention of consumers, it will
This research also found that the variables Irritation and increase consumer involvement and further influence their
Informativeness has significance influence on advertising buying behavior [5].
attitude, while entertainment has no significance influence on
advertising value. Research on mobile advertising itself has been done with a
variety of themes. For example, regarding the factors that
Keywords—mobile advertising; advertising value; advertising influence the acceptance of mobile advertising by consumers
attitude; purchase intention [6-8], or about mobile advertising that is associated with
consumer behavior [9-12]. However, there is little research on
I. INTRODUCTION the effectiveness of mobile advertising in Indonesia. Therefore,
this study tries to examine the effectiveness, by understanding
A tight business competition environment requires the perception of Indonesian consumers on the value of
companies to be more critical in determining their advertising advertising on mobile advertising, how they behave on
strategies. With a limited advertising budget, companies must advertisements that appear on their mobile devices, and how
find ways to implement effective and efficient marketing they affect their buying interest in the products offered.
strategies. They must use their advertising budget wisely to
avoid waste. The results of this study are expected not only to provide
practical benefits for the industry in implementing their
Advertising through online media then becomes the main advertising strategies, but also expected to contribute
attraction for marketers. Online advertising is considered to academically and enrich the literature on research on mobile
have its own advantages compared to advertising in advertising.
conventional media. These advantages include that online
advertising is more interactive, can be aimed at specific target A. Mobile Advertising
markets and have lower costs [1].
Technology raises new ways to attract consumers, one of
On the other hand, technological developments have made which is through mobile advertising [8,13]. The concept of
the use of mobile devices so prevalent. For the benefit of mobile advertising itself has a lot of understanding, as stated by
computing and communication, many people leave desktop many experts [14-17]. Of the various concepts put forward by
devices and replace them with mobile devices that are easier to these experts, mobile advertising can be defined as the use of
carry. They use mobile devices for various activities such as
mobile devices (such as smartphones and tablets) as advertising factors of the ad [31]. The response can be regarded as
media for goods, services and ideas. something that is beneficial or not profitable for them. Other
researchers say that advertising attitude is a person's emotional
Mobile advertising has different characteristics from change after seeing advertisements and is described as
advertising through other media, because it is able to provide something positive or negative [32].
information directly to consumers, wherever and whenever.
This is because consumers always carry their mobile devices The topic of Advertising attitude has been researched by
almost everywhere, they go [18]. experts. Examples such as research on advertising attitude that
discusses a person's attitude in relation to their emotions
There are many types of mobile advertising used by towards the advertised product [33]. Other researchers discuss
companies in communicating their products. From the advertising attitude and its influence on brand attitude and
simplest, mobile advertising can be in the form of sending text buying interest [34]. Various previous studies revealed
on short message service media (SMS), or sending complex information that advertising attitude is a variable that
content in the form of static or moving images on multimedia influences buying interest [35-38]. Mittal also found that
message service (MMS) media, banners on internet sites advertising attitude is an antecedent that influences buying
accessed via mobile devices (banner ads), internet video ads interest positively [39-44].
accessed on mobile devices (mobile video ads), or
advertisements that appear on mobile device games (mobile
games ads). Mobile advertising is a new opportunity for D. Research Framework and Hypotheses
marketers to communicate their products to consumers. Based on the explanation above, the research framework
However, this opportunity will only be used effectively if and hypotheses in this study can be described as follows:
consumers have the desire to receive advertisements on their
mobile devices.
B. Advertising Value
Research on advertising value has been started for a long
time, beginning with research that examines how a person's
attitude can change after being influenced by the level of
interest and adoption of information [19-21] revealed that the
level of advertising value is determined by several dimensions,
namely entertainment, information, and irritation.
The term entertainment in advertising relates to the positive
attitude of consumers on the entertainment they get after seeing
the ad. There have been many previous studies that confirm the
effect of entertainment on the positive attitude of consumers, Fig. 1. Research framework and hypotheses.
where the advertising channels used have undergone changes
to online advertising [17,22]. This supports the uniqueness of
mobile advertising that has many features so that it can From figure 1 about the research framework and
entertain more consumers [23-25]. hypotheses above, there are 3 independent variables that
influence the advertising attitude variable, namely
Informativeness refers to a situation in which consumers "entertainment", "informativeness" and "irritation".
accept the content of an advertisement and feel that the ad can Meanwhile, the advertising attitude variable as a moderating
provide complete and clear information about the product variable is also predicted to significantly affect the purchase
advertised [21]. Because mobile advertising is delivered intention. More fully, the hypotheses proposed are based on the
through mobile devices that are always brought by consumers, framework in figure 1 are as follows:
consumers can immediately confirm whether the information is
true or not [26]. Therefore, the influence of informativeness on H1: Entertainment has a positive effect on Advertising
mobile advertising is expected to be positive [27-29]. Attitude
In the last dimension, consumers may feel irritation from H2: Informativeness has a positive effect on
advertising, because they may feel annoyed when they see the Advertising Attitude
advertisement [21]. According to previous research, although
its nature can differ depending on the advertising channel, H3: Irritation has a negative effect on Advertising
irritation has a negative effect [29,30]. What's more, mobile Attitude
advertising can be disseminated to consumers more actively H4: Advertising Attitude has a positive effect on
than conventional advertising, so it is believed to provide Purchase Intention
higher irritation effects than conventional media.
C. Advertising Attitude
Advertising attitude is defined as the consumer's response
to a particular advertisement that is influenced by various
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D. Hypotheses Testing
TABLE IV. ESTIMATES
Before testing the hypothesis, a goodness of fit is tested on
the model. Goodness of fit testing is based on several criteria Estimate S.E. C.R. P Label
that shows on table 3 Goodnes of Fit, such as Chi Square ATT <--- IRR -.201 .090 -2.230 .026 par_8
calculation, Cmin / df, Goodnes of Fit Index (GFI), Tucker- ATT <--- INF .512 .112 4.578 *** par_9
Lewis Index (TLI), Normed Fit Index, and so on. Based on the ATT <--- ENT .082 .086 .949 .343 par_11
data processing using AMOS software, the following results
PI <--- ATT .960 .181 5.296 *** par_14
are obtained:
PI <--- INF .131 .118 1.108 .268 par_15
PI <--- IRR -.051 .087 -.590 .555 par_16
PI <--- ENT .122 .080 1.518 .129 par_17
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that has a significant positive effect on purchase intention, Descriptively, the advertising value of mobile advertising
which is equal to 0.960. In addition, advertising attitude is also receives a less favorable response from respondents, as well as
negatively affected by irritation significantly, with a coefficient the variable advertising attitude and purchase intention. But
of -0.201. All the hypotheses support the theory that has been what about the relationship between each variable? Are the
proposed in previous studies. results of this study still relevant to previous studies?
The results of hypothesis testing indicate that advertising
IV. DISCUSSION attitude is influenced by the dimensions of advertising value
This research shows unfavorable results for marketers, differently. The entertainment dimension affects advertising
especially for advertisers in online media. According to value insignificantly, so does the irritation dimension that
respondents' perceptions, the advertisements they see on affects advertising attitude negatively and not significantly. It is
mobile devices still show low value. This deficiency can be different from the informativeness dimension that significantly
seen in specific dimensions of advertising value, namely the influences the advertising attitude variable and the advertising
level of entertainment, informativeness and irritation. attitude variable that significantly influences the purchase
According to respondents' perceptions, advertising on mobile intention variable.
advertising has a low entertainment level. This is indeed not These results have implications for marketers to pay more
surprising because advertisements displayed on a mobile attention to the informativeness dimensions of advertising
device have many limitations to be able to entertain. This because this dimension can influence consumer attitudes and
limitation may arise due to limited space on the screen of a ultimately can affect their purchase intention on the advertised
smartphone or tablet, so that not much creativity can be raised product. Especially because we think that the limitations of
there. Some forms of advertising may be more entertaining mobile advertising on the entertainment dimension can be
because it uses a video format. Unfortunately, this is also a overcome if the display of advertisements can provide
difficult challenge because the video format can cause a longer consumers with the right and relevant information.
loading time on the web page that will be displayed. Especially
for consumers, advertisements like this can spend their internet Although the level of irritation is felt to be quite high and
quota. negatively affects consumer attitudes and interest in buying the
products advertised, these results are still in line with previous
This is different from the form of advertising on studies on the irritation of advertising. However, we believe
conventional media such as television or radio. Advertising that the level of informativeness will be the solution to this,
through these media can be more entertaining because it namely if an advertisement is able to display useful and needed
appears when the main shows from TV or radio "break" for a information, then the irritation rate of the advertisement will
moment to be replaced by advertisements. These ad decrease. Finally, previous studies have proven that purchase
impressions can be arranged in such a way as to be able to intention is positively influenced by advertising attitude and so
attract the attention of consumers. For example, advertisements are the results of this study. The results of this study have
on television or radio can contain comedy or action content so succeeded in strengthening previous research about the
as to be more entertaining to viewers. influence of advertising attitude on buying interest. In this case,
Space limitations on mobile devices can usually be consumers who have a positive attitude on advertising tend to
overcome by showing pop up ads that cover the entire screen have the desire to buy the product advertised.
of your smartphone or tablet for a while. However, this also
caused an unpleasant reaction from the respondents because V. CONCLUSION
pop up advertisements were considered annoying and increased
the level of irritation of advertisements for consumers. Based Based on the descriptive & regression analysis, the finding
on the results of questionnaires, it can be seen that the level of of this research can be concluded that:
ad irritation is very high. Besides pop out ads, placing irregular Respondent's perception of mobile advertising value is
advertisements on layouts can also interfere with the audience's differ based on its dimensions. The entertainment level
focus. Things like this certainly disrupt the main content of the of mobile advertising is at the "low" level, the
website so that it can cause irritation. informativeness level of mobile advertising is at the
From the informativeness dimension, advertisements are "moderate" level, while the irritation level of mobile
usually used to inform new products launched by the company advertising is at the "high" level.
or inform the uses of the product, or others. Informative Respondent’s attitude on mobile advertising is
advertising is able to provide something useful for consumers. moderate, while respondent’s purchase intention on
In this study, mobile advertising is considered to have a mobile advertising products are low.
moderate level of informativeness by respondents. This is a
challenge for marketers so that advertisements displayed on Irritation and Informativeness has significance influence
mobile devices can display information better and relevant to on advertising attitude, while entertainment has no
their needs. Moreover, mobile advertising has advantages in significance influence on advertising value.
terms of personalization in displaying advertisements. This All dimensions of Advertising Attitude influences
personalization can connect between consumer preferences and Purchase Intention, whereas Advertising Value
the type of ad that will be displayed.
influences Advertising Attitude.
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