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  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
8,150 Views
17 Pages

The aim of this paper is to shape the identity of digital video advertising in the new digital media landscape, focusing on whether and to what extent popular digital ads on social media are differentiated from traditional television ads in the conte...

  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
1,726 Views
3 Pages

Compulsive Buying and Beliefs about Digital Advertising

  • Christos Livas,
  • Alba Pajollari and
  • Nansy Karali

In view of concerns about consumers’ vulnerability to contemporary marketing tactics, this study aims to examine the extent to which compulsive buying affects beliefs about digital advertising. The results of a survey of 117 consumers suggest t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
8,231 Views
14 Pages

4 November 2018

Despite the rapidly growing expenditure on digital advertising, the effectiveness of the functioning of the digital advertising ecosystem is becoming less and less visible. This is related to the fact that only a small part of the expenditure incurre...

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
18,665 Views
33 Pages

1 December 2021

Recent research has revealed an alarming prevalence of click fraud in online advertising systems. In this article, we present a comprehensive study on the usage and impact of bots in performing click fraud in the realm of digital advertising. Specifi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
6,459 Views
33 Pages

Perceptions of Greenwashing and Purchase Intentions: A Model of Gen Z Responses to ESG-Labeled Digital Advertising

  • Stefanos Balaskas,
  • Ioannis Stamatiou,
  • Kyriakos Komis and
  • Theofanis Nikolopoulos

19 August 2025

This research examines the cognitive and psychological mechanisms underlying young adults’ reactions to ESG-labeled online advertisements, specifically resistance to persuasion and purchase intention. Based on dual-process theories of persuasio...

  • Review
  • Open Access
14 Citations
7,322 Views
24 Pages

22 September 2021

Audience attention is vital in Digital Signage Advertising (DSA), as it has a significant impact on the pricing decision to advertise on those media. Various environmental factors affect the audience attention level toward advertising signage. Fixed-...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
9,479 Views
19 Pages

7 February 2021

Digital advertising has been frequently used for the promotion of e-commerce among individuals. However, little is known about the function of cultural factors that can outline the effectiveness of digital advertising practices to alter attitude and...

  • Article
  • Open Access
39 Citations
41,879 Views
40 Pages

Effectiveness of Online Digital Media Advertising as A Strategic Tool for Building Brand Sustainability: Evidence from FMCGs and Services Sectors of Pakistan

  • Rizwan Raheem Ahmed,
  • Dalia Streimikiene,
  • Gerhard Berchtold,
  • Jolita Vveinhardt,
  • Zahid Ali Channar and
  • Riaz Hussain Soomro

21 June 2019

The purpose of the undertaken study is to examine the effectiveness of online digital media advertising as a strategic tool for building brand sustainability. For this purpose, we investigate the impact of different channels of online media, such as...

  • Article
  • Open Access
53 Citations
13,227 Views
25 Pages

18 April 2019

This research investigated the use of consumer neuroscience to improve and determine the effectiveness of action/emotion-based public health and social cause (HSC) advertisements. Action-based advertisements ask individuals to ‘do something&rsq...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
13,400 Views
16 Pages

19 May 2008

Geographical Information Systems (GIS) have been gaining a growing interest in Turkey. Many local governments and public agencies have been struggling to set up such systems to serve the needs and meet public requirements. Urban life shelters the adv...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
7,996 Views
14 Pages

3 September 2019

The importance of digital marketing is continuously growing, at least in the present economic phase. Within this sector, fashion bloggers play a crucial role, which reflects the relevance of fashion on an economic and a social level, as already highl...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
4,967 Views
29 Pages

This paper proposes an innovative, intelligent shopping cart system with an interdisciplinary approach using Bluetooth low energy (BLE) beacons. The research integrates online and offline retail strategies by presenting campaigns and ads to the custo...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,124 Views
29 Pages

22 July 2025

As digital marketing becomes more targeted and interactive, it is more critical to understand how young audiences perceive and react to compelling content. This research examines the extent to which consumer responses are affected by neuromarketing k...

  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
11,955 Views
29 Pages

9 July 2014

The increasing prominence of new Internet and social media technologies and their growing importance as a source of health information are pushing the pharmaceutical industry towards digital channels. This paper explores the potential impacts of the...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
6,187 Views
33 Pages

Algorithmic Burnout and Digital Well-Being: Modelling Young Adults’ Resistance to Personalized Digital Persuasion

  • Stefanos Balaskas,
  • Maria Konstantakopoulou,
  • Ioanna Yfantidou and
  • Kyriakos Komis

20 August 2025

In an era when AI systems curate increasingly fine-grained aspects of everyday media use, understanding algorithmic fatigue and resistance is essential for safeguarding user agency. Within the horizon of a more algorithmic and hyper-personalized adve...

  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
5,349 Views
12 Pages

Validating Self-Reported Ad Recall as a Measure of Exposure to Digital Advertising: An Exploratory Analysis Using Ad Tracking Methodology

  • Alexa R. Romberg,
  • Morgane Bennett,
  • Shreya Tulsiani,
  • Bethany Simard,
  • Jennifer M. Kreslake,
  • Dionisios Favatas,
  • Donna M. Vallone and
  • Elizabeth C. Hair

Many mass media campaigns aimed at changing young people’s health behavior air on digital platforms rather than on broadcast media (e.g., television), given the intended audience’s preference for web-based communication. While research su...

  • Article
  • Open Access
25 Citations
5,904 Views
20 Pages

Background: How much unhealthy marketing do children see on digital devices? Marketing of unhealthy food and beverages has long been identified as a factor in children’s preferences, purchase requests and consumption. Rising global obesity mand...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
20,990 Views
29 Pages

16 December 2021

Over the last two decades, we have witnessed a fundamental transformation of the advertising industry, which has been steadily moving away from the traditional advertising mediums, such as television or direct marketing, towards digital-centric and i...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
4,933 Views
14 Pages

The evolution of digital advertising, which is aimed at a mass audience, to programmatic advertising, which is aimed at individual users depending on their profile, has raised concerns about the use of personal data and invasion of user privacy on th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,744 Views
24 Pages

As digital media companies pursue sustainable revenue, AI-based strategies like personalized advertising and dynamic paywalls have become prevalent. These monetization models involve different forms of consumer data collection, raising distinct priva...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
7,282 Views
9 Pages

31 July 2021

The majority of advertisements contain thin-ideal imagery that have been digitally modified. A robust body of research has suggested that exposure to these retouched images has negative effects on body image and increases eating disorder risk. Furthe...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
4,602 Views
16 Pages

15 January 2023

Digital endorsers are already utilized extensively in various businesses. The major objective of the current study was to find out the impact of image realism of digital endorsers on the purchase intention of gift products for the elderly. We investi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,094 Views
20 Pages

19 December 2025

The rapid diffusion of artificial intelligence (AI) in marketing has reshaped how consumers interact with digital content and evaluate ethical aspects of firms. The present study examines how familiarity with and trust in AI shape consumers’ ac...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,130 Views
17 Pages

Exploring the Motivation for Media Consumption and Attitudes Toward Advertisement in Transition to Ad-Supported OTT Plans: Evidence from South Korea

  • Sang-Yeon Kim,
  • Jeong-Hyun Kang,
  • Hye-Min Byeon,
  • Yoon-Taek Sung,
  • Young-A Song,
  • Ji-Won Lee and
  • Seung-Chul Yoo

As ad-supported subscription models proliferate across over-the-top (OTT) media platforms, understanding the psychological mechanisms and perceptual factors that underlie consumers’ transition decisions becomes increasingly consequential. This...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,671 Views
14 Pages

Visual Attention to Food Content on Social Media: An Eye-Tracking Study Among Young Adults

  • Aura Lydia Riswanto,
  • Seieun Kim,
  • Youngsam Ha and
  • Hak-Seon Kim

20 November 2025

Social media has become a dominant channel for food marketing, particularly targeting youth through visually engaging and socially embedded content. This study investigates how young adults visually engage with food advertisements on social media and...

  • Article
  • Open Access
29 Citations
13,740 Views
16 Pages

Realfooders Influencers on Instagram: From Followers to Consumers

  • Javier Gil-Quintana,
  • Sonia Santoveña-Casal and
  • Efrén Romero Riaño

(1) Background: Realfooders have positioned themselves in social networks such as Instagram by posting photographs of recipes, advises, habits and nutritional behaviours which are advertised as reliable nutritional patterns and by their self-promotio...

  • Systematic Review
  • Open Access
3,427 Views
53 Pages

Emojis in Marketing and Advertising: A Systematic Literature Review

  • Chrysopigi Vardikou,
  • Agisilaos Konidaris,
  • Erato Koustoumpardi and
  • Androniki Kavoura

31 October 2025

Studies examining emoji applications in digital marketing and advertising are characterized by considerable heterogeneity in their theoretical orientation, methodologies, and contextual factors. A domain-based systematic literature review with the Th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4,470 Views
19 Pages

Personalization, Trust, and Identity in AI-Based Marketing: An Empirical Study of Consumer Acceptance in Greece

  • Vasiliki Markou,
  • Panagiotis Serdaris,
  • Ioannis Antoniadis and
  • Konstantinos Spinthiropoulos

12 November 2025

Artificial intelligence (AI) is increasingly used in marketing to deliver personalized messages and services. Although such tools create new opportunities, their acceptance by consumers depends on several factors that go beyond technology itself. Thi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
43 Citations
16,397 Views
33 Pages

22 June 2019

Urban environments have become significantly brighter and more illuminated, and cities now consider media architecture and non-static, self-luminous LED displays an essential element of their strategy to attract residents, visitors, and tourists in t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
971 Views
27 Pages

Decision Making Under Uncertainty: A Z-Number-Based Regret Principle

  • Ramiz Alekperov,
  • Vugar Salahli and
  • Rahib Imamguluyev

7 November 2025

Decision-making theory has developed over many decades at the intersection of economics, mathematics, psychology, and engineering. Its classical foundations include Bernoulli’s expected utility theory, von Neumann and Morgenstern’s ration...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,951 Views
17 Pages

Advertising has become an important strategy for many enterprises to nudge consumers to buy green products and achieve sustainable development. In the context of cultural diversity, the discussion on the influence of consumers’ cultural belief...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,142 Views
23 Pages

7 November 2024

Applying behavioral reasoning theory, this study examines the effect of social media food waste advertising on consumers’ intention not to waste food, with customer–brand communal engagement and awareness of food waste consequences acting...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
4,754 Views
17 Pages

Research on the Matching Effect of Social Media Advertising Appeal and Narrative Person: Evidence from China

  • Yu Jia,
  • Jinyan Yu,
  • Tianyuan Liu,
  • Jiashen Huang,
  • Wenlong Mu and
  • Fengfeng Deng

The burgeoning landscape of social media advertising also faces a myriad of challenges. This study aims to explore the interactive effect of advertising appeal (abstract vs. concrete) and narrative person (first-person vs. third-person) on consumer a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
338 Views
21 Pages

Mapping Morality in Marketing: An Exploratory Study of Moral and Emotional Language in Online Advertising

  • Mauren S. Cardenas-Fontecha,
  • Leonardo H. Talero-Sarmiento and
  • Diego A. Vasquez-Caballero

Understanding how moral and emotional language operates in paid social advertising is essential for evaluating persuasion and its ethical contours. We provide a descriptive map of Moral Foundations Theory (MFT) language in Meta ad copy (Facebook/Inst...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
15,019 Views
12 Pages

This paper aims to highlight a link between publishing business innovation and how editors manage creativity in the digital era. Examining the changing industrial and historical business context for the U.K. magazine publishing industry, two case stu...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
6,087 Views
20 Pages

Ingraining Polio Vaccine Acceptance through Public Service Advertisements in the Digital Era: The Moderating Role of Misinformation, Disinformation, Fake News, and Religious Fatalism

  • Qiang Jin,
  • Syed Hassan Raza,
  • Muhammad Yousaf,
  • Rehana Munawar,
  • Amjad Ali Shah,
  • Saima Hassan,
  • Rehan Sadiq Shaikh and
  • Emenyonu C. Ogadimma

17 October 2022

Recently, misinformation and disinformation, as well as fake news, have become global threats to public health owing to their role in spreading viral health hazard information. The growing explosive religious fatalistic views presented on social medi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
61,804 Views
41 Pages

Impact of Influencer Marketing on Consumer Behavior and Online Shopping Preferences

  • Stavros P. Migkos,
  • Nikolaos T. Giannakopoulos and
  • Damianos P. Sakas

Influencer marketing has emerged as a crucial element in digital marketing, significantly shaping consumer behavior and online shopping preferences. This study examined the multidimensional impact of influencer marketing by analyzing engagement metri...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
5,811 Views
12 Pages

Digital Marketing of Commercial Complementary Foods in Australia: An Analysis of Brand Messaging

  • Trish Dearlove,
  • Andrea Begley,
  • Jane Anne Scott and
  • Gemma Devenish-Coleman

The digital marketing of commercial complementary foods (CCF) is an emerging area of concern in Australia. Although research into traditional methods has identified a range of problems, the marketing and messaging strategies employed within digital s...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,817 Views
18 Pages

Femvertising and COVID-19—What Did Brand Owners Broadcast during the Lockdown?

  • Carmen Jambrino-Maldonado,
  • Patricia P. Iglesias-Sánchez,
  • Carlos de las Heras-Pedrosa,
  • Fernando Olivares-Delgado and
  • María T. Benlloch-Osuna

6 April 2023

The aim of this study was to analyze, from a gender perspective, advertising broadcasts during a time of crisis. A holistic perspective of the stereotypes, roles, professions, and gender relations represented is offered by utilizing a content analysi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
6,769 Views
18 Pages

7 March 2023

This case study aims to explore how customer journey concepts can apply to a hypothetical scenario, centring on a patient (customer persona) within the dentistry arena, and with a particular focus on special care dentistry. As an educational exercise...

  • Article
  • Open Access
30 Citations
7,010 Views
21 Pages

28 September 2022

Food choices are determined by intrinsic and extrinsic product characteristics, biological and physiological features, psychological factors, and situational and socio-cultural factors. Self-determination theory offers the explanation of health behav...

  • Article
  • Open Access
46 Citations
13,793 Views
10 Pages

There have been global calls to action to protect children (aged <18) from exposure to the marketing of unhealthy foods and beverages (‘unhealthy foods’). In this context, the rising popularity of social media, particularly amongst ado...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
6,813 Views
26 Pages

How Does Interactive Narrative Design Affect the Consumer Experience of Mobile Interactive Video Advertising?

  • Chao Gu,
  • Shuyuan Lin,
  • Wei Wei,
  • Chun Yang,
  • Jiangjie Chen,
  • Wei Miao,
  • Jie Sun and
  • Yingjie Zeng

13 September 2023

With the rapid spread of mobile devices and the Internet, mobile interactive video advertising has become an increasingly popular means of accessing advertising information for a large number of users. Interactive narratives are advertisements that r...

  • Article
  • Open Access
59 Citations
19,602 Views
26 Pages

Multichannel Digital Marketing Optimizations through Big Data Analytics in the Tourism and Hospitality Industry

  • Damianos P. Sakas,
  • Dimitrios P. Reklitis,
  • Marina C. Terzi and
  • Costas Vassilakis

The tourism sector increasingly relies on technology to acquire new clients in a world overflowing with information. So, the main question that needs to be answered is:What digital marketing strategy should be adopted to attract customers and built d...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
6,030 Views
18 Pages

Subscription video-on-demand (SVOD) platforms face high churn rates and substantial revenue losses from SVOD content piracy, all of which limit their ability to invest in acquiring/creating content compelling enough to win and retain subscribers. Bas...

  • Article
  • Open Access
25 Citations
6,195 Views
20 Pages

The Effects of Logistics Websites’ Technical Factors on the Optimization of Digital Marketing Strategies and Corporate Brand Name

  • Damianos P. Sakas,
  • Dimitrios P. Reklitis,
  • Panagiotis Trivellas,
  • Costas Vassilakis and
  • Marina C. Terzi

1 May 2022

In a world overwhelmed with unstructured information, logistics companies increasingly depend on their websites to acquire new customers and maintain existing ones. Following this rationale, a series of technical elements may set the ground for diffe...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
12,446 Views
19 Pages

In the digital age, the fear of missing out (FOMO) phenomenon is heightened by the frequent use of online stores and a constant stream of offers and digital interactions. This study explores how FOMO, amplified by digital commerce environments, influ...

  • Article
  • Open Access
92 Citations
46,093 Views
20 Pages

1 September 2020

Along with the increasingly high level of digital media consumption, organizations’ expenditure on online promotional activities is constantly and dynamically growing. At the same time, together with the growing expenditures on digital promotio...

  • Systematic Review
  • Open Access
13 Citations
7,320 Views
22 Pages

A Scoping Review of Observational Studies on Food and Beverage Advertising on Social Media: A Public Health Perspective

  • Juliana de Paula Matos,
  • Michele Bittencourt Rodrigues,
  • Camila Kümmel Duarte and
  • Paula Martins Horta

Popular social media platforms have been actively used by ultra-processed food companies to promote their products. Being exposed to this type of advertising increases the consumption of unhealthy foods and the risk of developing obesity and other no...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,847 Views
17 Pages

Green Consumers’ Responses to Integrated Digital Communication in the Context of Multichannel Retail

  • Ionica Oncioiu,
  • Iustin Priescu,
  • Geanina Silviana Banu and
  • Narcis Chirca

11 January 2023

Because of the fast rise of Internet commerce, a firm now has access to a plethora of new communication channels in addition to conventional ones and the problem is determining the best balance of physical and online channels. Due to the fact that th...

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