Predictors of Mobile Advertising Avoidance: What Makes People Avoid Mobile Advertising?

This study is designed to examine antecedents and consequences of mobile advertising avoidance. However, to date, research on mobile advertising avoidance has been scarce. Thus, this study makes significant contributions by addressing understudied areas in mobile advertising. Study results show that the perceived mobile advertising risk is positively related to mobile advertising avoidance. This study found that the perceived trust in mobile advertising is negatively linked to mobile advertising avoidance. The study results show that the perceived Internet users’ data privacy concerns is positively linked to mobile advertising avoidance. Finally, study results suggest that mobile advertising avoidance is positively linked to intention to delete the ad. KCI Citation Count: 2