ROMANIAN CONSUMER PERCEPTION TOWARDS MOBILE
                  MARKETING CAMPAIGNS

                     Iacob Cătoiu, Romanian Academy of Economic Studies
                 Daniel Adrian Gârdan, Romanian Academy of Economic Studies


ABSTRACT: The present article highlights the main aspects concerning consumer perception
towards mobile marketing campaigns. The qualitative research conducted by the authors
complete their earlier findings regarding future trends of mobile marketing and mobile media.
For the Romanian market, mobile marketing campaigns and new communication techniques
based upon mobile broadband are at the very beginning, mobile phone service providers and
advertiser using little from the wide range of promotional possibilities offered by the new
communication technology. Such as research results show, the perception of the Romanian
consumers towards specific mobile marketing techniques is influenced primarily by perceptions
towards mobile services in general, and there are still no brand images being associate with this
new advertising channel. Yet there is consumers' willingness to use new communication channels
if the messages are highly personalized and with a great extent of addressability depending on
user characteristics.
Evolution of marketing theory and practice in time has pointed out that marketing is a science
that finds in technology a great ally, and one of the most important source for developing new
concepts and applications. As regarding mobile marketing this aspect is even more conclusive
because at his very root, mobile marketing is a technology driven domain.

Key words: mobile marketing, qualitative research, brand awareness, consumer attitude.

JEL codes: M37, M31.