Date of Award
2007
Document Type
Thesis
Publication Status
Version of Record
Submission Date
October 2026
Abstract
The purpose of this research is to determine whether optimal ad placement and page context can significantly impact advertising effects, by extending hemispheric processing theory. This study contributes to the marketing literature by 1) addressing theoretical conflicts regarding optimal hemispheric ad placement (more favorable effects with leftward photo ads and rightward text ads; Janiszewski 1988) and page context (matching activation from "priming" of opposing brain hemispheres Janiszewski 1990), 2) by evaluating multiple advertising effects in relation to mere exposure rather than focusing primarily on attitudes (Janiszewski 1988, 1990), and 3) by addressing an important knowledge gap regarding optimal Web advertising (Dahlen, Rasch and Rosengren 2003). A growing amount of money is being spent on Internet advertising, with revenues totaling $12.5 billion in 2005, up more than 30 percent over 2004 (IAB 2006). However, banner ad click-through rates are low (between .1 and .2 percent for standard ads; DoubleClick 2007) and only 10% of business executives believe that banner advertising is highly effective in generating new business (Forrester 2006). Advertisers continue to use banner ads, perhaps because the "branding" benefits are not limited to clickthroughs (Briggs and Hollis 1997). While numerous ad-related factors have been previously studied (e.g., ad context creative factors, recall/recognition effects, repetition), to the author's knowledge no research has examined the effect of banner ad placement on advertising outcomes such as attention, recognition, brand attitude and purchase intention.
Extent
viii, 78 p. : ill. (some col.).
Recommended Citation
Goodrich, Kendall., "Optimal positioning of web page banner advertisements" (2007). Electronic Theses and Dissertations 2000 - 2009. 1317.
https://digitalcommons.fau.edu/etd_general_5/1317
Identifier
FADT77642
Comments
by Kendall Goodrich.|University Library's copy lacks signatures of Supervisory Committee.|Thesis (Ph.D.)--Florida Atlantic University, 2007.|Includes bibliography.|Electronic reproduction. Boca Raton, FL : 2007 Mode of access: World Wide Web.|by Kendall Goodrich.