{"title":"An Empirical Study on Determining the Effectiveness of Social Media Advertising: A Case on Indian Millennials","authors":"Taanika Arora, Bhawna Agarwal","doi":"10.4018/ijebr.2020040104","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Thearticleproposesaconceptualmodelbasedonsocialmediaadvertising,whichexamines the impactofsomeidentifiedantecedentssuchasentertainment,informativeness,credibility,incentives, pre-purchasesearchmotivationandsocialescapismmotivationonattitudetowardssocialmedia advertisingandfurtherseetheimpactonpurchaseintention.Aquantitativeapproachofresearchwas adopted,wheredatawascollectedusingaself-administeredquestionnairefrom472Indiansocial mediausers.Thescalesadaptedfromthepreviousstudieswerevalidatedusingexploratoryfactor analysis(EFA)andthentwo-stepstructuralequationmodelling(SEM)wasappliedwhichincluded confirmatoryfactoranalysis(CFA)followedbyhypothesistestinginAMOS22.0.Theresultsindicated a significant role of informativeness, entertainment, credibility, incentives, pre- purchase search motivationandsocialescapismmotivationinpredictingattitudestowardssocialmediaadvertising, furtherpurchaseintentionwassignificantlypredictedbyattitudestowardssocialmediaadvertising. KEywoRDS Attitude Towards Social Media Advertising, Credibility, Entertainment, Incentives, Indians, Informativeness, Millennials, Pre-Purchase Search, Purchase Intention, Social Escapism, Social Media","PeriodicalId":13628,"journal":{"name":"Int. J. E Bus. Res.","volume":"33 1","pages":"47-68"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2020-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"17","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Int. J. E Bus. Res.","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.4018/ijebr.2020040104","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Thearticleproposesaconceptualmodelbasedonsocialmediaadvertising,whichexamines the impactofsomeidentifiedantecedentssuchasentertainment,informativeness,credibility,incentives, pre-purchasesearchmotivationandsocialescapismmotivationonattitudetowardssocialmedia advertisingandfurtherseetheimpactonpurchaseintention.Aquantitativeapproachofresearchwas adopted,wheredatawascollectedusingaself-administeredquestionnairefrom472Indiansocial mediausers.Thescalesadaptedfromthepreviousstudieswerevalidatedusingexploratoryfactor analysis(EFA)andthentwo-stepstructuralequationmodelling(SEM)wasappliedwhichincluded confirmatoryfactoranalysis(CFA)followedbyhypothesistestinginAMOS22.0.Theresultsindicated a significant role of informativeness, entertainment, credibility, incentives, pre- purchase search motivationandsocialescapismmotivationinpredictingattitudestowardssocialmediaadvertising, furtherpurchaseintentionwassignificantlypredictedbyattitudestowardssocialmediaadvertising. KEywoRDS Attitude Towards Social Media Advertising, Credibility, Entertainment, Incentives, Indians, Informativeness, Millennials, Pre-Purchase Search, Purchase Intention, Social Escapism, Social Media