Impact of animation and language on banner click-through rates

This field experiment tested the impact of animation and language on the click-through rate (CTR) of banner advertisements across two website types. Animation results of over one million banner impressions were inconsistent for social networking and information websites. As expected, two languages,...

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Main Authors: Zorn, Steffen, Olaru, D., Veheim, T., Zhao, S., Murphy, J.
Format: Journal Article
Published: California State University 2012
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/33449
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author Zorn, Steffen
Olaru, D.
Veheim, T.
Zhao, S.
Murphy, J.
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Murphy, J.
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description This field experiment tested the impact of animation and language on the click-through rate (CTR) of banner advertisements across two website types. Animation results of over one million banner impressions were inconsistent for social networking and information websites. As expected, two languages, English and Norwegian, showed insignificant CTR differences. The CTR was under one tenth of one percent (0.1%), consistent with low reported CTRs for traditional advertising banners. The study contributes to research in testing different website design elements, an under researched area.
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spelling curtin-20.500.11937-334492017-03-08T13:13:31Z Impact of animation and language on banner click-through rates Zorn, Steffen Olaru, D. Veheim, T. Zhao, S. Murphy, J. Elaboration Likelihood Model click-through rates banner advertisement This field experiment tested the impact of animation and language on the click-through rate (CTR) of banner advertisements across two website types. Animation results of over one million banner impressions were inconsistent for social networking and information websites. As expected, two languages, English and Norwegian, showed insignificant CTR differences. The CTR was under one tenth of one percent (0.1%), consistent with low reported CTRs for traditional advertising banners. The study contributes to research in testing different website design elements, an under researched area. 2012 Journal Article http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/33449 California State University restricted
spellingShingle Elaboration Likelihood Model
click-through rates
banner advertisement
Zorn, Steffen
Olaru, D.
Veheim, T.
Zhao, S.
Murphy, J.
Impact of animation and language on banner click-through rates
title Impact of animation and language on banner click-through rates
title_full Impact of animation and language on banner click-through rates
title_fullStr Impact of animation and language on banner click-through rates
title_full_unstemmed Impact of animation and language on banner click-through rates
title_short Impact of animation and language on banner click-through rates
title_sort impact of animation and language on banner click-through rates
topic Elaboration Likelihood Model
click-through rates
banner advertisement
url http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/33449