Abstract (eng)
Living in a rapidly changing digital world, advertising techniques and approaches are constantly evolving. This project’s main research interest was to work out adolescents’ preferences and attitude towards different levels of product placement integration. Further, the role of advertising literacy as the moderating variable was observed. The study focused on various forms of product placement of the contemporary brand Converse, ranging from traditional low-integration to narrative high-integration product placements in the media. In order to test the hypothesis, a quantitative paper survey approach followed by an SPSS analysis was chosen. The research sample encompassed Austrian adolescents aged 14 to 19 and was collected in Viennese schools. The results pointed out that Austrian adolescents clearly prefer high integration placements over the traditional low-integration approach. Ultimately, the data further verified the hypothesis that advertising literacy itself, as well as its components, positively predicts negative attitude towards product placement. Lastly, it could be shown that advertising literacy does in fact have a moderating effect on the relationship between negative attitude and integration preference.