The increasing adoption of smartphone technology opens upeven more possibilities for mobile marketing. As Persaud andAzhar point out ‘the increased capabilities of smartphones have pre-sented marketers with a substantially expanded set of possibilities toresearch and service consumers’ (p.1). Accordingly, it is important to understand whether negative attitudes towards marketing com-munication persist in the smart phone era, or whether morefrequent engagement with a technology that offers a wider range ofoptions for communication have impacted on consumer attitudesto mobile marketing communications. In addition, one new smartphone related technology that might be of considerable potentialinterest, because it is the basis for pull marketing communication inwhich consumers can exercise control over the messages and con-tent that they receive, is QR codes. QR codes are two dimensionalbar codes that are placed on books, leaflets, posters, billboards, andother public objects. Scanning a QR code, for example, providesa consumer with a link to a mobile website, reveals text or con-nects to a customer services centre. On the other hand, QR codemarket penetration in the UK and elsewhere is still relatively lowwith, for example, only 10% of smartphone users in the UK engagingwith them, in contrast to the 78.5% accessing the mobile internet(ComScore, 2011). Accordingly, understanding consumers’ use ofand attitudes towards QR codes may contribute to a paradigm shiftin mobile marketing.