Footage advertising refers to an advertising technique that utilizes actual scenes broadcast in drama
and entertainment programs. Footage ads are considered to be highly effective, since consumers’
affective responses to popular programs is naturally linked to brand or product. In addition, because
footage advertising is a technique of recycling the existing images, its advertisement can be easily
produced and its production cost can be lower. In this way, although the numbers of footage
advertising has recently increased in the field of advertising, the empirical research on the advertising
effect has not been sufficient.
In order to verify the effectiveness of the TV commercial using the footage techniques, We have
produced two types of footage ads with high and low context congruency between the program and the
product, while having compared them with the program exposure, genre-related exposure, and the
host-related exposure. The number of 210 consumers has participated in the experiment. The results
of this study are summarized as follows:
First, the footage advertisement is effective in the condition of the congruent context between the
broadcasting program and the product, This suggests that the advertising effect may be different
depending on the contextual congruency between programs and products in footage advertisements.
In this sense, when creating footage ads, it is necessary for a producer to consider the relevance
between the program and the advertisement product rather than the popularity of the program. In
addition, the same footage advertisement has been exposed through the three different conditions. As
a result, there has been no significant difference between the program exposure and the genre-related
exposure, while the host-related exposure has been lower than the program exposure.