This study constructs a model to predict ad attitude when AI influencers act as ad endorsers. In the results, search products and rational ad appeal have more positive ad attitude, perceived empathy and perceived expertise as mediator. These three variables can be reinforced by the consistency of ad appeals and product categories.

The purpose of this study was to identify beauty influencer attributes on Instagram and their impact on product attitude and purchase intention and on influential difference between micro and mega influencers. The survey was conducted using a consumer survey method with a questionnaire, and the subjects of the survey were 506 women in their 20s and 30s using Instagram. The results of the study are as follows: First, a range of influencer attribute sub-factors were derived in relation to expertise, attractiveness, similarity, reliability, and intimacy. Second, the attributes highly impacted product attitude in the increasing order of attractiveness, similarity, reliability, and familiarity, with expertise having no statistically significant influence. Third, the consumer’s attitude toward the product introduced by the beauty influencer had a significant impact on their purchase intention. Fourth, it was shown that there is no difference in attributes according to the influencer’s number of followers. Fifth, the number of followers of the beauty influencer had a partial impact on attitude and purchase intention. A limitation of this study is that age and gender samples are narrow, but it is nevertheless meaningful to explore this topic in the absence of research on beauty influencers. It is believed that these findings will serve as a foundation for the development of beauty influencer marketing strategies on Instagram.

본 연구는 제품과 물리적 접촉이 불가능한 온라인 환경에서 다중 감각 단서가 소비자의 촉각적 심상과 제품에 대한 태도 및 구매 의사에 미치는 영향을 알아보고자 하였다. 실험 1에서는 참가자들을 음향 없이 사진만 제시한 조건, 음향 없이 영상만 제시한 조건, 일치하는 음향과 영상을 제시한 조건, 불일치하는 음향과 영상을 제시한 조건으로 나누어 제품을 탐색하게 하였고 그 후 촉각적 심상선명도, 제품 사용의 상상용이성, 제품에 대한 태도-구매 의사를 측정하였 다. 그 결과, 모든 변수에서 불일치하는 음향과 영상이 주어진 조건이 가장 낮은 평균 점수를 보였다. 실험 2는 참가자 내 디자인으로 설계되어, 참가자들에게 동일한 제품을 실험 1과 같은 네 개의 조건에서 탐색하게 하였다. 탐색 후,촉각적 심상선명도, 제품 사용의 상상용이성, 제품에 대한 태도-구매 의사, 접촉 욕구 등을 측정하였다. 접촉 욕구를 공변인으로 하는 반복측정 공분산분석 결과, 일치하는 음향과 영상을 제시한 조건은 다른 조건과 비교했을 때 유의미 하게 심상선명도, 제품에 대한 태도, 제품 구매 의사가 높았다. 이중 매개 분석 결과, 다중 감각 단서 조건은 심상선명 도와 제품 사용의 상상용이성을 순차적으로 매개하여 제품에 대한 태도-구매 의사를 유의미하게 예측했다. 결론적으 로, 음향 및 영상 단서로 유발된 선명한 촉각적 심상은 소비자가 제품을 사용하는 상황의 상상을 쉽게 만들어 태도-구 매 의사와 같은 의사 결정에 긍정적 영향을 미칠 수 있다.

The objectives of this study were: (1) to identify differences in consumer attitudes and intentions to recycle fashion products using three types of recycling (including resale, reform, and donation), and (2) to examine the moderating effects of consumer prosocialness on the relationships between attitude and intention for each type of fashion product recycling. Men and women aged 20 years and over were recruited from a marketing research firm panel. Participants completed an online questionnaire incorporating measures for attitudes and intentions to resale, reform, and donate fashion products, prosocialness, frequency of purchasing fashion products, monthly amount of spending on fashion products, and demographic information. Data from 224 participants were analyzed using SPSS 25.0 and PROCESS macro. The results demonstrated that consumers had significantly different attitudes and intentions depending on type of fashion product recycling. Consumers had more positive attitudes toward donation compared to resale and reform types of recycling. Consumer intentions toward resale and donation were significantly higher than their intention to reform. Furthermore, this study confirmed that the attitude-intention gap in fashion product recycling can be explained by individual prosocialness. The moderating effects of prosocialness on the associations between attitude and intention to recycle were significant. The implications of increasing consumers’ behavior intention to recycle fashion products was discussed and future research suggestions are provided.

This study examined the effect of Instagram usage time (short, long) and spending on fashion products (light, heavy) on product attitude and purchase intention of products promoted by an influencer. The moderating effect of influencer type (mega, macro, micro) was also investigated. A total of 515 males and females in their 20s participated in an online survey. Descriptive statistics were analyzed and exploratory factor analysis and two-way ANOVA were conducted. Research findings were as follows. First, the usage time, both short and long, had a positive effect on product attitude. Also, the interactive effects of usage time and influencer type on product attitude were found. Consumers with short Instagram usage time displayed the highest attitude toward products promoted by a macro-influencer whereas consumers with long Instagram usage time displayed the highest attitude toward products promoted by a micro-influencer. Second, usage time and influencer type did not show interactive effects on purchase intention. Third, both categoriacl variables of users’ spending on fashion products had a positive effect on product attitude. Fourth, the interaction effects of spending on fashion products and influencer types on purchase intention were found. The group of light buyers showed the highest purchase intention on products promoted by the macro-influencer while the group of heavy buyers showed the highest purchase intention of products promoted by the micro-influencer. Based on the results, implications were suggested.

Upcycling is the process of repurposing abandoned resources or useless products into products of better quality or higher environmental value. Upcycling products are evaluated to be sustainable because they demonstrate environmental values. However, domestic upcycling companies are operating on a small scale with a slow growth rate. This study aims to examine the value and risk factors of upcycling products from previous literature and clarify the effect of these ambivalent characteristics on purchase intention. This provides direction regarding factors upcycling companies should focus on. The data were collected via an online experiment with women in their 20s and 30s residing in South Korea, nationwide. The data were statistically analyzed using SPSS 21.0 and AMOS 18.0. Analysis of this data suggests that environmental, design, and self-expression value positively affect purchase intention. This extends previous upcycling literature by identifying design and self-expression value as important antecedents of purchase intention. However, in contrast to previous literature, no significant effect of performance or diversity risk was found. These results indicate that ethical attitude has a moderating effect on the relationship between environmental value and purchase intention. This study confirms that consumers intend to purchase upcycling products when they possess not only environmental value but also design and self-expression value.

The success of Marvel movies attracts more companies to place their brands in this series of movies, apparel brand like Under Armour or car manufacturer like BMW has largely used the movie as medium of product placement to increase brand equity. To understand how the product placement in the movie affect consumer attitude and purchase intention is in needed. Neer (2004) states that product placement is a type of marketing by creating impression for consumers unconsciously through incorporation into the plot of TV programs, movies and other media. The conceptual model was built based on the Russell’s (2002) tripartite typology of product placement and social comparison theory. We presume brand-self congruity, placement explicitness, plot connection, and attitude toward the plot and role are positively related to brand attitude and purchase intention. The research employed experiment with a 2 (placement explicitness: prominent/subtle) x 2 (plot connection: main character/supporting role) between subject design. The research theme is under the Under Armour because the brand used product placement as the company’s major marketing communication process of move placement. The research result shows that the more the product placement is identifiable in the movies, with frequent usage or appearance in main plot, the better the placement effect is; the preference of consumers on movies, including plot and role attitude, explicitly influences placement effect. If the real self or ideal self of consumers are consistent with brand image, a higher brand attitude and purchase intention will occur. To best of our knowledge, our paper is first one using self-congruity and attitude toward the plot to investigate the outcome of product placement in the movies. The research concludes with implications for promotion strategy to advance brand image and purchase intention by increasing the effectiveness of product placement. Future research suggestions relevant to the product placement issues, marketing communication and brand management are also provided.

Fair trade implies honest wages and eco-friendly products in keeping with the demands of ethical consumerism. Although consumers are presently more interested in fair trade products, it is hard to find aggressive marketing strategies for fair trade fashion products. Therefore, the purpose of this study investigates the effect of consumption propensity on fast and slow fashion goods consumption attitudes and purchase intention on fair trade fashion products. For method of this study, 229 questionnaires were distributed to consumers residing in Seoul, South Korea. The data from the 219 returned usable questionnaires was analyzed by Cronbach’s alpha, factor analysis, regression analysis using SPSS 22.0. The results of this study were as follows: First, consumption propensities of spontaneity, histrionics, and imitative nature in descending order positively affect consumption attitude for fast fashion products. And green consumerism negatively affects consumption attitude for fast fashion products. Second, consumption propensity such as donation & sharing consumerism, ethical consumerism, green consumerism, histrionics, and imitative nature in descending order positively affect consumption attitude for slow fashion products. Third, slow and fast fashion products consumption attitude in descending order positively affect purchase intention on fair trade fashion products. Fourth, consumption propensities such as ethical consumerism, green consumerism, and donation & sharing consumerism in descending order positively affect purchase intention on fair trade fashion products. Therefore fair trade fashion products with various usages and sustainable high quality are promoted by differentiated marketing strategies.

Despite the importance of innovation and customer participation for both practitioners and academics, the effects of the integration between innovation and customer participation has rarely been addressed in consumers’ perspectives. Accordingly, the authors first examine separately the impact of the two breakthrough innovation types (technology-based innovation vs. market-based innovation) and two forms of customer participation (as information providers vs. as co-developers) on brand attitude. Following this, the interaction effect between the two variables is also tested. We used a 2x2x2 mixed subjects design. We employed a 2 (breakthrough innovations: T-INNO, M-INNO) x 2 (customer participation: CPI, CPC) between-subjects design for independent variables and the dependent variable had a 2 (brand attitude: pre-brand attitude, post-brand attitude) within-subject design. The hypotheses were tested for a cell phone product category by pretest. Participants were 148 university students from Seoul, Korea. The results show that both breakthrough innovation and customer participation positively influence the brand attitudes held by customers, though neither the two forms of breakthrough innovation nor the two forms of customer participation differ from each other in terms of the strength of this relationship. However, when technology-based innovation is combined with customer participation in the form of co-development, a stronger positive impact on brand attitude is observed than when customers are treated as information providers. Conversely, when market-based innovation is combined with customer participation in the form of information provision, a stronger positive impact on brand attitude is observed than when the customers act as co-developers. These results have a number of theoretical contributions. First, prior innovation research has mostly focused on the impact on firm performance. Even though a few researchers have conducted several studies about the impact of innovation in terms of consumers’ perspectives, they did not consider the specific type of innovation. The present study focuses on comparing the impact of two types of breakthrough innovation based on customers’ perspectives. Second, prior customer participation or co-creation research has mostly looked at the positive impact on performance from both the firm’s and consumer’s perspective. However, they did not consider the specific type of customer participation which can affect differently performance. In this study, the differential impact of each type of customer participation was explored. Third, previous studies have not focused on the interaction effect between two types of innovation and customer participation. We found that the interaction effect can be significant when they are combined together. This study has also managerial implications. First, when firm managers utilize both breakthrough innovation and customer participation strategies, they need to consider the most effective combination of the forms of innovation and participation available. Second, this interaction effect should be considered not only in the innovative product development process but also in the communication activities in their customers. Finally, the limitations and further research directions of this results are discussed.

With the development of industry, environmental deterioration has become a global problem. Not only national policies on environmental issues should be strengthen but also environmental consciousness of corporate and consumers should be changed. In particular, corporate should strive to develop and improve green products for sustainable development. Green advertising is one of an efficient marketing tools to sell the green product. The important role of green advertising is to awaken necessity of green product and to imprint green brand image consumer`s mind. Green advertising influencing consumer attitude plays a useful role of green purchase behavior. This study explores dynamic relationships among personal uses of green advertising, attitude toward product, and purchase behavior for green products. The purpose of research is how personal uses of green advertising effects on attitude toward green products and green purchase behavior. Consumers are exposed to a large number of advertisings so that it is important to investigate how much they trust green advertising and what aspect of green advertising affects green purchase behavior. This study tries to contribute useful insights to practitioners who need a more effective communication strategy of green advertising.

The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of congruency of parent brand image with self-image, perceived risk, and product knowledge on the attitude towards extended product in fashion brand extension. A survey questionnaire was used to collect data from 170 female college students and collected data were subjected to descriptive analysis and regression analysis using SPSS Window program. The results of this study showed that the congruency of parent brand image with self-image and perceived risk had a positive effect on attitude towards extended product, whereas product knowledge had a negative effect on attitude towards extended product in fashion brand extension. Also, the congruency of parent brand image with self-image had a positive effect on the attitude towards extended product in fashion brand extension with positive moderating effect of perceived risk and negative mediating effect of product knowledge.

인터넷의 등장과 스마트폰의 빠른 보급으로 인하여 SNS 사용 인구가 증가하며 SNS를 통한 마케팅의 중요성이 점점 확대되었고, 다양한 분야에서 SNS 마케팅 활용성이 연구되고 있다. 본 연구는 국내 플라워샵의 SNS 마케팅 특성이 화훼디자인 상품에 대한 태도 및 구매의도 에 미치는 영향을 알아보고, SNS 특성과 구매의도와의 관계에서 화훼디자인 상품의 대한 소비자의 태도를 알아보고자 수행하였다. 본 연 구에서는 SNS 특성을 사용자의 관점으로 정보제공성, 상호작용성, 접근편의성, 신뢰성 4개의 요인으로 추출하였고, SNS 특성이 화훼디 자인 상품에 대한 태도 및 구매의도에 미치는 영향에 대해 설정한 9개의 가설을 토대로 설문지를 구성하였다. SNS의 이용실태에서는 SNS 의 사용여부를 묻는 질문에 91.2%의 응답자가 사용한다고 하였으며, 42.3%의 응답자가 1시간 미만의 SNS 사용시간이 가장 높은 빈도로 나타났다. 이용목적으로는 정보지식 습득 및 공유(36.1%)가 가장 높게 나타났다. 플라워샵의 SNS 활용특성의 하위범주(정보제공성, 상호 작용성, 접근편의성, 신뢰성) 모두 화훼디자인 상품에 대한 태도와 정의 상관관계를 나타냈으며, 화훼디자인 상품에 대한 태도는 구매의도 에 유의한 정의 영향을 미치는 것으로 나타나 화훼디자인 상품에 대한 태도가 긍정적일수록 구매의도가 높아지는 것을 알 수 있었다. 이와 같은 결과로 미루어 볼 때 플라워샵의 SNS 활용특성 중 정보신뢰성과 접근편의성에 의하여 화훼디자인 상품에 대한 긍정적인 태도가 형성 되었을 때 소비자의 구매의도에 영향을 미치는 것을 알 수 있었다. 따라서 화훼장식품의 구매의도를 높이기 위해서는 플라워샵의 SNS에 서 게시하는 게시물의 정보에 대한 신뢰성과 원하는 이미지와 정보를 보기 좋고 간편하게 이용할 수 있는 편의성을 강화하는 것이 중요하 다는 것을 알 수 있었다. 플라워샵의 SNS 활용특성의 하위요인들이 화훼디자인 상품에 대한 태도 및 구매의도에 미치는 영향을 알아보기 위해 다중회귀분석을 실시한 결과, 화훼디자인 상품에 대한 태도에 영향을 미치는 플라워샵의 SNS 활용특성의 하위요인을 살펴보면 신뢰 성(β=.354)이 가장 큰 영향을 미쳤으며 접근편의성(β=.319) 또한 브랜드 태도에 영향을 미치는 것으로 나타났다. 화훼디자인 상품의 구매 의도에 영향을 미치는 플라워샵의 SNS 활용특성의 하위요인에도 신뢰성이(β=.456) 가장 유의한 영향을 미치는 것으로 나타났다. 따라서 플라워샵의 SNS 활용특성이 화훼 디자인 상품에 대한 태도 및 구매의도에 긍정적인 효과를 높이기 위해서는 신뢰성과 접근편의성 요인을 강화해야 하는 것을 알 수 있었다.

사회 전반에 걸쳐 웰빙 열풍으로 인한 건강과 건강식품에 대한 관심 또한 높아지고 있다. 여러 건강식품 가운데 하나인 두유는 건강한 식문화를 원하는 소비자의 욕구를 충족시키기 위해 다양한 제품 개발 및 홍보에도 노력을 기울이고 있다. 이러한 라이프 스타일의 변화와 다양한 신제품의 출시 등을 고려할 때, 브랜드 이미지 구축에 있어 패키지디자인은 매우 중요한 요소이다. 소비자의 욕구를 충족시키기 위해서는 제품의 품질과 함께 타제품과의 차별화와 소비자들의 감성을 자극할 수 있는 디자인 개발로 제품을 구매함에 있어 소비자가 만족할 수 있어야 한다. 본 연구는 건강식품인 두유의 패키지 디자인이 소비자의 선호와 구매태도에 어떠한 영향을 미치는가를 살펴보았다. 소비자의 설문조사 결과로는 두유제품 구매 시시각적으로 표현되는 여러 요소 중 색채와 일러스트에 비중을 두었고 기존의 녹색과는 다른 노랑계열의 패키지에 선호도가 높음을 알 수 있었다. 이에 따라 다양해지는 제품들 중에 소비자의 인지 및 선호도가 함께 고려된 색채와 제품 특성에 맞는 일러스트 요소들의 효율적 전략이 필요할 것으로 보인다.

This study is conducted to verify existing differences in consumer attitude according to distributor type and PB product type. Pre-test was conducted for this study in order to select the distributor and to classify the product type, FGI was conducted with 10 graduate students of K university in Kyong-gi. This study survey housewives, office workers, and university students excluding the participants in the pre-test. In the final analysis, research hypothesis is verified through the data of 280 answers in Korea. This research is conducted with a factor design of 3 types of distributors –department store, discount store, convenience store-and 2 types of product –utilitarian product, hedonic product. To verify the hypotheses, ANOVA is carried out. Reliability test of each measurement variables, Cronbach α coefficient is used. For each analysis, SPSS Windows 15.0 statistical program is used. The findings suggest that First, according to the size and characteristics, distributors are classified into department stores, discount stores, and convenience stores and it is verified whether if there are differences in consumers' attitude (product attitude, brand attitude and purchase intention) by the effect of different distributors. Results showed that product attitude is statistically significant. Second, product type is classified by two categories according to whether the product seeks for practicality or emotional pleasure - Utilitarian product and Hedonic product. In this context, the result after verifying whether if there is difference in the attitudes -product attitude, brand attitude, and purchase intention - in accordance with the product types is shown that utilitarian products makes bigger difference compared to hedonic products. Third, it is confirmed that there is interaction effect between product attitude and purchase intention according to the distributer type and product type. However, we find that in terms of brand attitude, there is no interaction effect. The implications of this research is as the following. First, we propose the need of PB product development and marketing strategy, which considers the product types in accordance with the scale and features of each distributor. Second, PB products should break away from the simplicity of standardized products and consider the different features of distributors. Distributors will be in need of a strategy to build a compelling brand that can differentiate itself from other distributors. This will contribute to the improvement in reliability and formation of product value.