Brand webtoons which are produced for specific brand in webtoon genre, have been increasingly used
a tool of corporate marketing. This study was intended to analyze the effect that perceived advertising
attributes(entertainment, informativeness, artisticity, and involvement) of brand webtoons would have
on word-of-mouth intention and purchase intention empirically. The results of this study were as
follows: First, entertainment, artistic, and involvement, excluding the informativeness, among
perceived advertising attributes were found to have a significant influence on word-of-mouth
intention. Second, entertainment, informativeness, and artistic, excluding the involvement among
perceived advertising attributes were found to have a significant influence on purchase intention.
Third, consumers’ word-of-mouth intention for brand webtoons was found to have a significant
influence on purchase intention. Fourth, we analyzed the influence that the advertising attributes of
brand webtoons would have on purchase intention through mediation of word-of-mouth intention.
The results of analysis suggested that entertainment and artistic, excluding the informativeness, had a
partial mediating effect whereas involvement had a full mediating effect. Therefore, this study is
significant in that it validated related influence for promotion of brand webtoons which currently
remain at incipient stage in advertising sector.