The influence of banner position and user experience on recall. The mediating role of visual attention Muñoz Leiva, Francisco Hospitality Internet usage experience Attention to advertising Banner position Banner recall Eye-tracking study This work was partly supported by the Spanish National Research Programme (R1D1i Research Project ECO2017-88458-R), Andalusian R1D1I Research Programme (B-SEJ-209-UGR18, the project “Research in NeuroSOCOM”) and by Portuguese national funding through FCT – Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (projects UID/BIM/04773/2019 CBMR; UIDB/04020/2020 CinTurs; UIDB/04470/2020 CiTUR). Finally, the authors also wish to thank prof. Carlos Flavian, SJM-ESIC editor and the anonymous reviewers for their invaluable comments and constructive reflections to enable the publication of this manuscript. Purpose: This study aims to analyse the effectiveness of a static promotional banner located on a hotel reservation website in terms of capturing the visitor’s visual attention by exploring how this impact depends on the user’s degree of internet experience. Design/methodology/approach: An experiment was conducted using the eye-tracking methodology, in addition to a self-administered questionnaire. Through eye-tracking technology, eye movements were recorded whilst participants explored a generic hotel website. The factors used in the analyses were the position of the banner on the website and participants’ experience as internet users. Findings: The findings showed that positioning a banner at certain locations on the webpage may lead to a better recall, which, in part, seems to result from the visual attention that such locations attract. The mediation analysis showed that the bottom-right and bottom-left positions have a negative effect on banner recall due, in part, to the shorter attention times and the smaller number of fixations those positions induce. Although the visitor’s level of internet experience affected his/her visual attention towards the banner, its impact on banner recall was non-significant. Results are discussed considering which variables produce greater effectiveness in capturing the user’s attention. Practical implications: The paper draws several implications for the marketing literature, hospitality management and society in general. Originality/value: The study is the first to analyse the impact of the position of a static ad on users’ visual attention and memory, considering the user’s degree of internet experience. 2021-11-12T08:32:06Z 2021-11-12T08:32:06Z 2021-07-16 journal article Muñoz-Leiva, F., Faísca, L. M., Ramos, C. M., Correia, M. B., Sousa, C. M., & Bouhachi, M. (2021). The influence of banner position and user experience on recall. The mediating role of visual attention. Spanish Journal of Marketing-ESIC.[10.1108/SJME-04-2020-0050] http://hdl.handle.net/10481/71461 10.1108/SJME-04-2020-0050 eng http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/es/ open access Atribución 3.0 España Emerald