Abstract:
The objective of this study was to investigate the impact of playful ironic branded entertainment on consumer behavior, including understanding, attitude toward the brand, attitude toward the branded entertainment, source characteristics, and purchase intention, on a low-involvement product, Milo, a chocolate malt beverage. Pre-experimental setting, with static group design, was employed to collect data from 120 undergraduate students at the Faculty of Economics, Thammasat University, during April 2020. The result indicated that both playful ironic branded entertainment and non-playful ironic branded entertainment gave similar impacts on consumer behavior. Attitude toward the brand was the only sub-variable that the playful ironic branded entertainment produced significantly higher mean score than the non-playful ironic branded entertainment.
