The Effect of Advertising Exposure on Attitude Toward the Advertising and the Brand and Purchase Intention in Instagram

The steady rise in use of social media for advertising has raised several questions about the important features of advertisement that could attract the customers. The present study investigates the effectiveness of advertising exposure on Instagram, a widely used social media in Indonesia, with regard to the customers’ behavioral attitudes toward the brand and purchase intention. This quantitative research conducted through a survey of over 260 respondents via self-administered structured questionnaires. Data were analyzed using structural equation modeling (SEM) using LISREL. The most powerful influences that exist between variables that measure ad exposure are that of entertainment and informativeness on attitude toward the advertising. In addition, compared to the influence of attitude toward the brand, attitude toward the advertising has a significant effect on purchase intention. This study focuses only on Instagram users and the advertising campaign run in Indonesia. Despite this limitation, the study findings enable marketers to enhance the effectiveness of their advertising campaign to reach the targeted ROI through emotional appeals, creativity, information, entertainment features to increase customer’s positive attitude toward the advertising, the brand, and purchase intention. The study contributes to the literature of marketing communication, specifically in advertising, by enabling researchers to understand the social media advertising effectiveness from emotional appeals, creativity, information, entertainment aspects. Keywords—social media advertising, purchase intention, attitude toward the advertising, attitude toward the brand, advertising effectiveness