Purpose – Previous work examining the effect of emotional responses (arousal) in the online context has addressed one type of emotional data, relying only on self‐reporting. This paper aims to investigate the effect of arousal on short‐term brand memory in the context of advergaming,...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the factors contributing to positive attitudes toward advergames among later elementary school children in Mexico. Design/methodology/approach – Data collection was conducted via experiments in an elementary school computer lab followed by a...

Purpose – The purpose of this study was to conduct a content analysis of humor styles used in US and Mexican television advertising. Design/methodology/approach – A total of 97 television commercials broadcasted by major US and Mexican national television networks were classified under the...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate advertising appeals and cultural values in television advertisements from newly emerging markets. Specifically, the paper hypothesizes that the advertising appeals in the advertisements of sub‐Saharan African (SSA) emerging consumer...