Experiencing Interactive Advertising beyond Rich Media: Impacts of Ad Type and Presence on Brand Effectiveness in 3D Gaming Immersive Virtual Environments

Theories from social psychology, consumer psychology, and Human Computer Interaction suggest that 3D gaming Virtual Environments increase users affective engagement with the stimuli/environment content due to their particular structural features (high immersion, presence, etc.).
  

Experiencing Interactive Advertising beyond Rich Media: Impacts of Ad Type and Presence on Brand Effectiveness in 3D Gaming Immersive Virtual Environments

Dan M. Grigorovici Corina D. ConstantinPennsylvania State University

Introduction

Product placement, a phenomenon first used in broadcast media, have recently started to be experimented with in newer channels such as 3D gaming environments. The increased advertisers attraction to product placements is obvious. While representative of a trend aimed to 'blur the lines between entertainment and persuasion (Shrum 2004), product placements are seen...

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