Abstract
Despite the enormous spending on digital advertising, consumers are skeptical toward online advertising (STA). We integrated advertising value and stimulus-organism- response (SOR) frameworks to develop a model of STA's causes and consequences. Product knowledge and perceived ethics of online seller (ETH) were proposed as moderators. For study 1, moderated-moderated mediation technique was applied on the time-lagged data of 411 consumers. For study 2, a between-subject experiment (n = 179) compared the effects of skepticism across video and picture ads. The results indicate that ETH and product knowledge moderated the relationships between stimulus-organism and organism-response states, respectively. Moreover, consumers showed favorable attitudes toward video ads. This study made novel contributions to research on STA by filling multiple voids (a) integration of advertising value and SOR (b) infotainment and puffery as predictors (c) product knowledge and perceived ethics of online seller as moderators (d), and comparison across advertisement type (video vs. picture).
Highlights
AND BACKGROUNDOnline advertising has experienced tremendous growth over the past decade
Because all the CR values are above the 0.60 threshold level, AVE values are considered acceptable, indicating appropriate convergent validity
All the observed values were below the given threshold, indicating adequate discriminant validity (Table 1)
Summary
AND BACKGROUNDOnline advertising has experienced tremendous growth over the past decade. Despite the effort and money spent on online advertising, research claims that, in general, consumers do not show trust in advertisements (Amawate & Deb, 2021; Obermiller & Spangenberg, 1998). Skepticism toward advertising is a predisposition to distrust the claims made in advertisements (Obermiller & Spangenberg, 1998). The concept of skepticism toward advertising has been considered necessary, it has not been investigated widely. The existing literature has focused on skepticism toward environmental claims (Cheng, Chang, & Lee, 2020; Yu, 2020) or cause-related marketing (Amawate & Deb, 2021; Bae, 2018). Skepticism toward online advertising, in general, has received limited attention from researchers
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