This study conducted a questionnaire survey of the users of DMB service, and analyzed the results to investigate how DMB advertisements impact consumers' attitude and purchasing behavior.
Firstly, the investigation of current status of using DMB showe...
This study conducted a questionnaire survey of the users of DMB service, and analyzed the results to investigate how DMB advertisements impact consumers' attitude and purchasing behavior.
Firstly, the investigation of current status of using DMB showed that the terrestrial DMB is being utilized more than the satellite DMB, and the mobile phone is being employed the most as a communication tool. The using period less than 1 year got an absolute majority, 93.6% users. The places of the most frequent use were the subway and a motorcar. Besides, it was being used frequently at the company and at the school. The average time of usage was less than 2 hours a day. At the time afternoon it was being utilized the most frequently, especially in the evening hours. The most preferred genre was news /economy. Drama was also one of the preferred program. Considering the attractiveness of characteristics, it was found that mobility was the most attractive, and the point of personal media was also considerably attractive. It was also shown that the time length less than 15 seconds was most pertinent for DMB advertising.
Considering the motive for DMB utilization, interpersonal relationship acted as a rather high motive. and entertainment was also a motive of high level. On the other hand, seeks for information was not so important, self-identification was of low level, and the motivation by habituation was also rather low.
The measurement of an attitude to DMB advertisement showed that the confidence in DMB advertising was low. However, acquisition of informations was rather high, and noticeability was also rather high. In general, an attitude after watching DMB advertisement was positive. The higher the motivation by self-identification and seeking for information was ,the more positive an attitude was. Similarly, the higher the motivation by personal relationship and habitation was ,the more positive an attitude was. On the other hand, the factor of entertainment did not give any influence on the attitude to DMB advertisement.
Form the investigation of the correlation between a consumer's attitude and purchasing behavior after watching DMB advertisement it was firstly found that the notion of purchasing was not so highly increased after watching DMB advertisement. For more details, the more positive an attitude after DMB advertising was, the more the notion of purchasing was increased. Similarly, the higher the magnitudes of confidence, acquisition of information, and especially noticeability were, the more the notion of purchasing was increased. When we consider purchasing behavior, the frequency of purchasing through DMB advertisement during the last month was mostly less than 5 times. Furthermore, the most number of consumer answered that they purchased through DMB not more than one time. Considering the types of goods(services), the frequency of purchasing was high in the order of shoes, sports equipment, and accessaries like noble metals. The purchasing prices less than 100 hundred Won got an absolute majority. Purchasing was being conducted according to purchasing plan, however the time for carful consideration was not sufficient. In addition, the satisfaction with purchasing base on the information through DMB advertisement was high. The higher the notion of purchasing after watching DMB advertisement were, the higher the purchasing behavior became. The higher the noticeability of advertisement was, the higher the notion of purchasing became.
Based on the obtained results, we make the suggestions as follows:
First, DMB advertising is not still effective because it is in the early stage, however the basis sill be expanded gradually. Consequently, an advertising technique should be provided in accordance with it own feature of DMB.
Second, an advertising program is required to reflect the characteristics of the effect of advertising and the purchasing behavior.
Third, an advertising program should be directed toward the class of high income and of older ages for more effective advertising.
Fourth, DMB advertisement is different form the other advertising media in the consumer's usage such as advertising fields, time slot, and time length of advertising. Therefore, a distinctive strategy should be provided to establish the identity of DMB advertisement.