1st Edition

Digital Advertising Evolution

Edited By Iain MacRury, Danae Manika Copyright 2025
338 Pages 14 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

338 Pages 14 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

338 Pages 14 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This cutting-edge text brings together a diverse range of scholars and practitioners to examine how digital has become the default space for advertising— in practice, communication, and commercial process. Providing a wide-ranging and multi-disciplinary account of a complex contemporary moment for promotional communications,  Digital Advertising Evolution  charts recent and... Read more

List of contributors

Acknowledgements

 

Chapter 1: Introduction: Advertising at a juncture

Iain MacRury and Danae Manika

 

Part I: Key Themes, histories, and futures

 

Chapter 2: Digital advertising histories and futures: Approaching the Fourth Industrial Revolution

Iain MacRury

 

Chapter 3:  Augmented reality in advertising: Managing expectations in agency-client relationships around the use of emerging technologies

Syarifah Nurleyana Wafa, Julie Bilby, Lukas Parker

 

Chapter 4: The role of the archive: How solutions are arrived at in an online workscape

Helen Powell and Paul Springer

 

Chapter 5: Sustainable digital advertising and greenwashing

Fiona Cownie and Rutherford

 

Chapter 6: Hurdles to efficient digital marketing

Arpita Agnihotri, Saurabh Bhattacharya, and Natalia Yannopoulou

 

Part II: New forms

 

Chapter 7: Advergaming: Context and definitions

Ed Vollans

 

Chapter 8: Online culture spaces in offline commercial places: Challenging meaning and boundaries through memes and advertising

Victoria Esteves

 

Chapter 9: Native advertising: concepts, theory, and practice

Joyce Costello and Rufus Adebayo

 

Chapter 10: There’s an app for that! Strategic marketing in a digital era

Linda Brennan and Lukas Parker

 

Chapter 11: The hidden persuaders in your entertainment? A case of branded entertainment in South Korea

Hyunsun Yoon

 

Chapter 12: The Digital Advertising Machine: Programmatic and its vicissitudes

Iain MacRury

 

Part III: Audiences, consumers, and data

 

Chapter 13: Engagement at first sight: Persuasive potential of interactive health campaigns and target audience factors

Jeeyun Oh and Soya Nah

 

Chapter 14: Too much information? Consumer attitudes to data, privacy, and digital advertising in Hong Kong and Australia

Julie Bilby and Vicky Wing Kei Ng

 

Chapter 15: The power and responsibility of AI advertising and the customer journey

Kate Letheren , Hyun Seung “HS” Jin, and Gayle Kerr

 

Part IV: Sectors and case studies

 

Chapter 16: Identifying the forms of digital food advertising content and their effects on food well-being in the phygital age

Wided Batat

 

Chapter 17: The assessment of tourism advertising effects: An introduction of AIDEA model

Lisheng Weng

 

Chapter 18: Digital drug marketing: Current research and a new agenda

Jennifer Gerard Ball, Ilwoo Ju and Yuhui Zhu

 

Part V: Regulating digital advertising and promotional communication

 

Chapter 19: Branded content, Influencers, and Generation Z: Legal strategies considered in Spain's new general law on audiovisual communication

Patricia Núñez Gómez, Celia Rangel-Perez, and Ainhoa Garcia Rivero

 

Chapter 20: Digital advertising and EU digital regulation

Zihao Li

 

Chapter 21: Identifying digital advertising: paradoxes and problems in governance

Jonathan Hardy

Biography

Iain MacRury is Professor of Media and Communication at the University of Stirling, UK.

Danae Manika is Professor of Marketing & Business Education at Brunel Business School, Brunel University London, UK.