The Effectiveness of Nostalgic Marketing on the Market Offerings in Saudi Arabia

Abstract

As the market offerings are increasing and new deferent alternatives of these offerings are being introduced to the market every day, marketers are coming up with deferent ways and concepts to promote their products or services. The deferent ways and concepts that are used in promotion help in differentiating between the offerings that the market has. This research aims to understand the meaning of nostalgic marketing and its effect on the market of Saudi Arabia. This study will highlight the importance of nostalgic marketing and the respond that it generates in the market of Saudi Arabia. The target population will be the population of Jeddah. Survey method will be used where the survey participants will be more than 100. The survey will be carried out using digital survey forms e.g.: iPad, tablet etc. The findings of this research According to the report, tailored advertisements are the most effective nostalgic stimulus in Saudi Arabia, followed by joyful memories, communal nostalgia, and cultural nostalgia, with digital nostalgia being the least successful nostalgic notion employed in this market. When the five nostalgia triggers are applied in marketing, they might elicit three different emotions from the Saudi market: emotional, cognitive, and behavioral reactions. These reactions can occur as a single reaction or all three at the same time from the same commercial, and they can come as a and out come from the market after multiple advertisements were placed in it. According to the poll, joyful memories and communal nostalgia stimuli will elicit an emotional response the majority of the time, whereas tailored advertisements, cultural nostalgia, and digital nostalgia will elicit a cognitive response.