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Purpose: The development of e-commerce and online shopping has given rise to emerging concepts of consumer behavior, including webrooming. Due to the novelty of the concept of webrooming in this study, an attempt has been made to provide a conceptual framework to explain this behavior and the factors affecting its formation.Method: In this regard, a field survey study was conducted by distributing questionnairy among a sample consisting of 384 gold and jewelry customers in Tehran. The questionnaires consisting of 9 dimensions and 38 items were distributed among the members of the statistical sample after ensuring reliability and validity. Data analysis along with partial least squares technique and Smart PLS software were used.Findings: According to the results, the benefits of online and offline channels have a significant impact on webrooming attitude; It was also discovered that attitude, perceived risk, anticipated regret, subjective norms and behavioral control have a significant impact on behavioral inclination and webrooming.Conclusion: The results of goodness of fit showed that the proposed model in this research has a good validity and fit. Given that webrooming has a negative impact on online sales; the results help online retailers mitigate this phenomenon by targeting webrooming antecedents.

Purpose: This research aimed at presenting the consumers’ compulsive buying pattern through internet advertisements of digital content in Iran's TV shopping industry.Method: Research Methodology was practical in terms of purpose and conducted using mixed method (qualitative-quantitative). The research community was based on the purposeful sampling method, and consisted of ten marketing experts. The research tool was interview. MAXQDA software was used to analyze data through database theory. The statistical population in the quantitative section included TV buyers in Mashhad. Based on Morgan table and random sampling, 384 samples were selected. The research tool was a researcher-made questionnaire, and the Structural Equation Method (SEM) in SmartPLS software was used for data analysis. The validity of the questionnaire was confirmed by using face, content, divergent and convergent validities, and its reliability was also confirmed using Cronbach's alpha. Both of Composite and homogeneous reliability were evaluated.Findings: "appropriate digital marketing mix design for TV sales, digital marketing capabilities, individual demographic characteristics, lifestyle, family " constitute the causal conditions in the consumer’s compulsive buying pattern in the TV shopping. According to the findings, “quick and transient purchase and irrational and emotional purchase” were identified as a central phenomenon. “TV's attractiveness from the audience's point of view, broadcasting policies, sales companies' policies, national TV belief and trust, individual awareness and knowledge about buying products and society's culture” acted as intervening conditions. In the field of buying, “intellectual structures of society and executive structures of society” identified as background conditions. Human strategies and structural and organizational strategies” acted as strategies and “Consumers outcomes; families and society outcomes” were identified as outcomes. According to the results of structural modeling, the relationships of the identified pattern were significant.Conclusion: The issue of compulsive buying is one of the most important and common issues, and buying from TV has fueled this issue, and has become the basis for its expansion and, following that, its negative consequences. In this scientific research, efforts were made to reduce the consequences of this phenomenon. The results of this study showed that although the phenomenon of compulsive purchase from TV is negative, but with proper management, useful results can be obtained from it.