An analysis of different types of advertising media and their influence on consumer preferences and purchase intentions for digital cameras

Abstract

This study analyzes consumer preferences for different types of advertising media: print media, the Internet, salespersons, and a new type of media1– an innovative information delivery device based on Microsoft's multi-touch screen and a single-touch sensor bar. We chose three kinds of digital cameras for our study and analyzed how different types of advertising media influence purchase intention. We used mixed logit model and multinomial logit–OLS two-stage estimation method for this analysis. Our results show that the Internet had the highest influence on consumers' purchase intentions. The new type of media had the second highest influence. This study reveals that advertisements which use new types of media can positively influence consumers. These findings can inspire companies to use new types of advertising media to develop their advertising strategy portfolios. This proposed model is applicable to other products and types of advertising media in order to analyze consumer preferences and purchase intentions.