An evaulation of customer intention to participate in mobile advertising and an empirical study conducted in Istanbul

Mobile services provide companies with a strong marketing potential, because mobile technologies enable brands to have a direct communication with consumers, regardless of time and place. Considering the potential of mobile media, this thesis aims to investigate the relation between consumer?s attitude towards mobile advertising. Besides, another intention of the research is to cues about mobile marketing, positioning with mobile advertising, evaluation of the concepts, potentials, boundaries and finally the critical success factors from the customer acceptance point of view. This study makes two contributions to the literature: Firstly, assessing previous studies in the field, the study proposes a conceptual research model of consumer intention to join mobile advertising campaigns. The literature was surveyed to provide a benchmark for better understanding the phenomena and deriving the theoretical framework for the proposed research in Chapter 1 and Chapter 2. Secondly, the model is tested by empirical data obtained from Turkish mobile market. A model of consumer intention to participate in mobile advertising is developed in the Chapter 3 of this study, along with a number of associated hypotheses and Chapter 3 also includes the testing of the model and findings are presented, with managerial implications and suggestions for future studies. Conclusions are provided in Chapter 4. The results of the study will provide various managerial insights to enlighten both contemporary and future cases of mobile advertising medium as an emerging one-to-one marketing channel. Findings give insights ab