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One of the notable shifts in consumers’ interaction, trend, and lifestyle has modified due to recent technologies such as Internet, ICTs, and digital media (Waheed & Jianhua, 2018; Attaran, Attaran, & Kirkland, 2019; Sun, Xiong, & Chang, 2019). An extensive growth of Internet-based platforms, i.e., social-networks-sites, social apps, online games, and diverse online blogs has modified the consumers’ behavior and habitats (Tiago & Verassimo, 2014). Such alteration from conventional to digital systems facilitates the human to entertain, share knowledge, and promote culture by dialogues and discussions (Venkatesh et al., 2003; Kumar et al., 2010). According to Budden et al., (2011), the Internet is an essential element of business operations owing to prevalent saturation and acceptance. From marketing and consumers’ perspectives, the adoption of information communication networks allows a number of benefits to organizations such as competitive price, availability of variety, comprehensive product information, and product diversity in a cost-effective manner (Bayo-Moriones & Lera-Lopez, 2007). Such online networks enhance consumer’s buying intention because they often attain the information of a commodity through contemporary platforms (El-Gohary, 2012; Waheed & Yang, 2018; Tiago & Verassimo, 2014; Waheed & Jianhua, 2018). Several contemporary marketing practices were already well-known which strengthen consumers’ behavior, e.g., database marketing, viral marketing, transaction marketing, network marketing, electronic marketing, and interaction marketing (Coviello, Milley, & Marcolin, 2001; El-Gohary, 2012). Furthermore, the Internet has become core element for all activities of human life such as health, education, personal communication, and social life consequently scholars have suggested importance platforms nationwide from varied contexts and domains (Sun, Xiong, & Chang, 2019; Pham, Williamson, & Berry, 2018; Waheed & Jiahua, 2018; Khan, Liu, Khan, Liu, & Hameed, 2018; Zhang, Liu, & Wen, 2018).
Online consumers’ behavior is defined as intention of a person to shop a particular product through Internet (Constantinides, 2004). Several factors restrain to buy a product online, including privacy, security risks, and fraud issues (Miyazaki and Fernandez, 2001; Koong et al., 2008). Even though probably 51% population of the world uses an Internet and about 1.6 billion population buy the products online nationwide where such ratio expected to rise 2.14 billion till 2021 (Internet World Stat, 2017; Statista, 2017). This study conducted in Pakistan which resides in Asia. It is reported that likely 55% population of the world exists in Asia in which almost 50% people are Internet users (Maddox and Gong, 2005). Pakistan ranked on the 6th highest populated country with 196 million people (World Meters, 2017). The trend to use an Internet is prevailing in Pakistan, and likely 18% population is practicing Internet technologies and most of them often acquire products online (Report of Pakistani Internet Users, 2016). The question arises whether digital media can play a vital role to engage such an enormous consumers’ market, specifically their impulsive tendencies. Several experts have been studied the influence of distinct emerging technologies in advertising and suggested a drastic role of the Internet-based networks in marketing communications to promote the relationships (Coviello et al., 2001; Constantinides, 2004; Wu et al., 2016). However, the research on OIBT and DM is still unexplored (Floh & Madlberger, 2013; Adelaar et al., 2003).