Advertising visuals in global brands' local websites: a six-country comparison

The visual strategies employed in top global brands’ local advertising websites were compared between two groups of nations: the Western group, consisting of the US, UK and Germany; and the Eastern group, consisting of Japan, Korea and China.

Advertising visuals in global brands' local websites: a six-country comparison

Daechun AnHongik University, Korea

INTRODUCTION

In recent times, the advertising voices of top global brands can easily be heard in a host of new environments, such as the web, cell phones and handheld computers (Berner & Kiley 2005), which put consumers in control of media via the function of interactivity (Newhagen & Rafaeli 1996) and, therefore, tip the balance of power in favour of media audience receivers (Wolin et al.2002). Among these new interactive media channels, the increase in the use of web advertising among global advertisers...

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