Abstract:
The main purposes of the research on attitude of students toward product placement in music video are as follow: 1. To study the attitude of student toward product placement in music video. 2. To study the relationship between the attitude of students toward product placement in music video and demographic characteristics. 3. To study the relationship between the attitude of students toward product placement in music video and behavior of the music video exposure. 4. To study the relationship between the attitude of student towards product placement in music video and the perception to singers. This research in conducted in a survey method, which collects data from 423 questionnaires. Samples are the freshmen from the private universities in Bangkok Metropolitan. The statistics used for the data analysis are Percentage, Mean, Standard Deviation, t-test, Chi-Square, and Pearsons Product Moment Correlation Coefficient. The results have shown that: 1. For different ways of displaying product in music video, each way could reflect the college students attitude. It shows that the explicitly placing product in music video and the implicitly placing product in music video both positively affect the college students attitude. However, the explicit product placement is a little better than the implicit product placement. 2. For the demographic characteristics concerning age, it correlates with the college students attitude in the negative direction for both ways of displaying product in music video. The survey also showed the younger viewers have better attitude toward product placement in music video than the older viewers. Meanwhile, the demographic characteristics concerning sex and income do not correlate with both way of placing product in music video. 3. For behavior of viewing music video, it correlates with the college students attitude in the positive direction for both ways of displaying product in music video. It shows that more viewing music video has better attitude toward product placement in music video than less viewing music. 4. For the perception to singers, it correlates with the college students attitude in the positive direction for both ways of displaying product in music video. It shows that viewers who have good perception to that singer would have good attitude toward product placement in music video accordingly. Especially, nice looking singers would help the product placement in music video more efficiently.