Even though newspapers are still playing an important role, because the change of advertising environment such as development of communication skills, popularization of digital media, personal computers, and the internet, spread of cable TV and satell...
Even though newspapers are still playing an important role, because the change of advertising environment such as development of communication skills, popularization of digital media, personal computers, and the internet, spread of cable TV and satellite broadcasting, and realization of ubiquitous environment is diversifying the option of advertisement media to attract customers, the impact of newspapers on customers is decreasing. Therefore, the suppliers of housing should adapt themselves to the change of advertising environment caused by the advent of the era of new media. In other words, to maximize the effectiveness of distribution by real estate advertisement, it is essential to select appropriate advertising media and to differentiate the marketing strategy for the advertisement. More importantly, all the advertisement should be backed by concepts which meet the needs of customers.
Real estate affects customers’ overall lives a lot and customers’ decisions related with real estate are influenced so much by advertisement. Thus, advertisement as an important real estate marketing strategy can change according to the selection of advertisement media. This study divides drastically changing various advertisement media into image-media and non-image-media and analyzes the difference of the customers’ recognition for those two media groups.
This study consists of 5 chapters and the contents of each chapter are as follows: chapter 1 is the introduction, chapter 2 reviews theoretical background such as the concept of image-media, real estate marketing, real estate distribution advertisement and prior researches. Chapter 3 describes research models and hypotheses and chapter 4 empirically analyzes 4 hypotheses such as the degree of preference for advertisement media and of trust for media, significance of media, and effectiveness of media. Chapter 5 summarizes and concludes this study.
Important findings of this study are as follows.
(1) Image-media is more preferred than non-image-media when customers seek for distribution information.
(2) Image-media is more useful than non-image-media for information about apartment distribution and about economic, environmental, and administrative considerations.
(3) Image-media is more effective than non-image-media in access to information and realism.
(4) Image-media is better than non-image-media in the degree of trust to information conveyed.
This study shows that because image-media advertisement better meets the needs of customers in a visual aspect than non-image-media advertisement by providing image information for the housing and other objective information which can affect customers’ decisions, it is more desirable to select image-media than non-image-media when constructing a distribution advertisement strategy. Therefore, It is important to differentiate and segment advertisement media by using image-media which is superior in a audio-visual aspect in the fast changing new media era.