ABSTRACT
This research was conducted to find out the impact of internet advertisement on consumer behavior. Ilorin Kwara state was used to carry out the research.
A cluster sampling survey method was adopted in conducting this research. Two hundred (200) questionnaires were applied for data collection tables and graph were use with percentage for data analysis to arrive at conclusion on the research findings.
The study founds out the impact of internet advertisement is growing higher and also the influencing purchasing behavior which end up stimulating sales and transactions trends on product or brand choice.
Therefore Nigeria advertiser can take
advantage of internet advertising for their product and brand in the emerging
internet market.
TABLE OF CONTENT
CHAPTER ONE
1.1 BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY
1.2 STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM
1.3 OBJECTIVES OF THE STUDY
1.4 RESEARCH QUESTIONS
1.5 RATIONALE OF THE STUDY
1.6 SIGNIFICANCE OF THE STUDY
1.7 SCOPE OF THE STUDY
1.8 DEFINITIONS OF TERMS
1.9 REFERENCES
CHAPTER TWO
2.1 HISTORY OF THE INTERNET ADVERTISEMENT
2.2 TYPES OF INTERNET ADVERTISEMENT
2.3 ADVANTAGE AND DISADVANTAGES OF INTERNET ADVERTISEMENT
2.4 INTERNET ADVERTISEMENT IN NIGERIA
2.5 ATTITUDE TOWARDS ADVERTISEMENT IN GENERAL
2.6 CONSUMER RESPONSE TO INTERNET ADVERTISEMENT
2.7 BENEFITS OF INTERNET ADVERTISEMENT
2.8 REFERENCES
CHAPTER THREE
3.1 RESEARCH DESIGN
3.2 RESEARCH METHOD
3.3 POPULATION OF THE STUDY
3.4 SAMPLE SIZE
3.5 SAMPLING PROCEDURE
3.6 DATA COLLECTION PROCESS
3.7 DATA COLLECTION INSTRUMENT
3.8 DATA ANALYSIS TECHNIQUES
3.9 RELIABILITY AND VALIDITY OF INSTRUMENT
3.10 REFERENCES
CHAPTER FOUR
4.1 DATA ANALYSIS AND INTERPRETATION
4.2 RESEARCH RESPONSE
4.3 ANALYSIS OF RESEARCH
CHAPTER FIVE
5.1 SUMMARY
5.2 FINDINGS
5.3 CONCLUSION
5.4 REFERENCES
5.5 JOURNAL AND ARTICLES
CHAPTER ONE
1.1 BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY
The advert of the internet has been one of the most exciting events in the second half of the 20th century. The ancient dream of “a scholar knows all things happening in the world without venturing outdoors” has finally become a reality. Since 1993 when the internet broke into the communication world. At present, the internet has spread to more than 180 countries and regions, connecting more than 6000,000 domestic new networks of various types, hooking up more than 120 million computers available to million users [2% of the entire population] within the interest are the information treasure shared by all human civilizations.
The reason why the internet seems all-powerful is because it has two characteristics beyond the reach of other mechanisms via: The internet contains the biggest resources of information in the entire world; second, it enables people to obtain an interactive mechanism to instantly communicate with one another.
Once connected within the internet, everyone can enjoy the unparalleled richness of global information resources including but not harmful to textual, audio and graphic information.
The information on the internet is so rich that no one can tell what is really out there because, the internet information resources are constantly expanding at a great speed, one can only imagine. The types of information on the internet are also wide ranging from scientific research, education, public policy, legal regulations to commerce, arts, entertainment, e.t.c. It provides unlimited access for those connected with the internet to reach anybody, anywhere in the world so much that the entire world has became global village.
The internet not only has an inexhaustible amount of information as vast as the ocean, but also has the interactive mechanism, net-to-net; net-to-people and people-to-people communications that makes the internet seems able to take on any task: entertainment, inter-personal exchange
s, education, health and medicine, information gathering, securities and investment, trade and settlement of commercial goods, even online voting e.t.c.
All these seemed so remote and unrealistic only yesterday. The exchange and sharing of information among all people has unshared in an omnipotent status in internet application. As long as people develop certain desires, the information to satisfy such desires will quickly and continuously appear on the internet. Such information will gradually satisfy people’s desires for their materials as well as spiritual demands.
With the knowledge economy gradually ascend to a dominant status and the gradual formation of an information society and that of the characterization of the internet as seemingly “omnipotent” may not be an overstatement. In the past last four year, our country has seized the tare opportunity of developing computer networks. By the middle of “July 1998:”, our country has 570,000 computer connected with the internet, with a total of 1.175million users. In order to speed up the application of information’s technology in operations, command and communication, our military has also established computer networks, some of which are connected with the internet, making use of what was originally designed to serve the u.s military and u.s scientific research organization.
However due to its innate transactional, decentralized, open and unregulated nature, the internet as a free, open and anarchy device has brought various countries to great risks as well as opportunities. While it provides enormous convenience that stimulates economy growth, the internet also brought negative impact that cannot be ignored.
We live in a global village where information now travels in a moment. The barriers of time and spaces have been effectively eradicated through the interplay of science and technology. New communication technology (NCTS) has ultimately revolutionized the ways of doing things. The advent of these NCTS particularly the internet or information super highway as it often called is fast changing the face of mass communication, journalism and advertisement.
The metaphor “Information super Highway” which connotes an international network of computer has been coined to describe the communication revolution characterized by speed and sophisticated with which information travel around the world through incredible-powerful new information communication technologies which enfolds the world into a global village.
The entire faces of mass communication, its definitions, audience composition and message delivery patterns together with the advertising strategies and methods have been altered by this information revolution.
The internet with its associated resources had opened up opportunities for advertisers to place their products before their targeted audience all year round, its usage had been adjudged as not only cost effective but highly successful as the world has gone “cyber crazy” it is estimated that over 160million people around the globe uses the internet on a daily basis, of these number, over 100million engage in shopping and other commercial activities (www.isoc.org/internet/historycertshtml).
Equiped with this knowledge, it is pertinent to determine the influence of internet advertisement on consumer behavior what are the merits and demerits of cyber space advertising and how advertisers have been able to harness these internet resources to the promotion of advertisement practices in the country.
The resources of this study is to Clive into the contemporary hype on the internet. Synonymously referred to as electronic advertising (E-advertisement), cyber space advertising or on-line advertisement.
The internet actually began in the early 1960’s as a twinkle in the eyes of the u.s.a department of defense, which saw it as a means of super computer communication for researchers and military facilities across the country. Until its commercial explosion in the 90’s, the internet remained a relative obscure network of linked computer used mostly by academics, military researchers and scientists around the world to send and receive electronic mail, transfer files and find or retrieve information from data bases.
These economic benefits of the information super high ways are quite enormous to technologically starved African.
In the words Abati (1997:4) it has been tagged as a technology that will create wealth, reduce military coup plotting, indirectly reduced famine, war and alleviate the poverty level.
