Nora Jansen , Oliver Hinz , Clemens Deusser , Thorsten Strufe
{"title":"Is the Buzz on? – A Buzz Detection System for Viral Posts in Social Media","authors":"Nora Jansen , Oliver Hinz , Clemens Deusser , Thorsten Strufe","doi":"10.1016/j.intmar.2021.03.003","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.intmar.2021.03.003","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Today, online social networks (OSNs) constitute a major part of our lives and have, to a large extent, replaced traditional media for direct communication, as well as information dissemination and gathering. In the vast amount of posts that get published in OSNs each day, some posts do not draw any attention while others catch on, become viral, and develop as so-called buzzes. Buzzes are defined through their characteristics of immediacy, unexpectedness, and intensity. The early detection of buzzes is of vital importance for companies, public figures, institutions, or political parties—e.g., for the pricing of profitable advertising placement or the development of an appropriate social media strategy. While previous researchers developed systems for detecting trending topics, mainly characterized by their intensity, this is the first study to implement a buzz detection system (BDS). Based on almost 120,000 manually classified Facebook posts, we estimated and trained models for the BDS by applying various classification techniques. Our results highlight that, among other predictors, the number of previously passive users who then engage in the buzz post, as well as the number of likes given to the comments, are important. Evaluating the BDS over a five-month evaluation period, we found that these two classifiers perform best and detected over 97% of the buzzes.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48260,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Interactive Marketing","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":11.8,"publicationDate":"2021-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/j.intmar.2021.03.003","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47039962","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Do You Like What You (Can't) See? The Differential Effects of Hardware and Software Upgrades on High-Tech Product Evaluations","authors":"Nico Wiegand , Monika Imschloss","doi":"10.1016/j.intmar.2021.03.004","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.intmar.2021.03.004","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>“Over-the-air” software upgrades are a recent trend in the automotive industry to distribute firmware directly to customers via the Internet. These upgrades can endow the vehicle with completely new functions that enhance safety, convenience, and performance. The US manufacturer Tesla was the first to integrate such upgrades on a regular basis to let customers participate in continuous innovation, giving Tesla a competitive edge over rival brands. Since then, several premium manufacturers have followed suit. This research examines how consumers perceive and respond to software upgradeability in durable high-tech products vis-à-vis integral product alternatives and hardware upgradeability. Results of four studies with more than 3,000 participants suggest that consumers evaluate software upgrades less positive than hardware upgrades because they perceive software as less capable to enhance product quality. However, bundling software upgrades to larger packages and stressing the low effort required to integrate new functions are viable ways to remedy this perception. Importantly, the findings suggest that offering products fully equipped with all premium functions to be unlocked via software upgrades—as done by several premium brands—is a risky strategy. Consumers react negatively to the artificial restriction of functionalities, irrespective of whether these are offered as temporary leases or permanent purchases. The findings provide initial evidence for the game-changing potential of software upgradeability and offer managers concrete guidance for designing and marketing upgradeable hardware-software platforms.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48260,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Interactive Marketing","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":11.8,"publicationDate":"2021-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/j.intmar.2021.03.004","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42239165","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"More Trust in Fewer Followers: Diverging Effects of Popularity Metrics and Green Orientation Social Media Influencers","authors":"Matthew Pittman , Annika Abell","doi":"10.1016/j.intmar.2021.05.002","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.intmar.2021.05.002","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Digital marketing campaigns increasingly utilize social media influencers. Research in influencer marketing has investigated popularity metrics but found conflicting results on how the number of followers and likes on posts might influence consumers' behaviors. The present research investigates green living orientation of influencers as a moderating characteristic that leads to differential interpretation of popularity metrics in the context of green advertising messages. Specifically, lower popularity metrics seem to benefit green influencers or “greenfluencers.” An increased perception of trust in greenfluencers with lower popularity results in enhanced attitudes toward a sponsored product and increased purchase intentions. Additionally, consumers are willing to donate higher amounts to a related charity after exposure to a promotional post by a green influencer with low following. We present the results of three lab studies and discuss theoretical and practical implications.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48260,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Interactive Marketing","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":11.8,"publicationDate":"2021-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/j.intmar.2021.05.002","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43672164","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Muhammad Waqas , Noor Akma Mohd Salleh , Zalfa Laili Hamzah
{"title":"Branded Content Experience in Social Media: Conceptualization, Scale Development, and Validation","authors":"Muhammad Waqas , Noor Akma Mohd Salleh , Zalfa Laili Hamzah","doi":"10.1016/j.intmar.2021.07.001","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.intmar.2021.07.001","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Understanding customer experience with branded content on social media has become critical as brands allocate a considerable budget to the creation and dissemination of branded content. Customers interact with social media branded content such as brand-related images, videos, and text posts, and respond by engaging with content on social media. However, despite growing scholarly interest in social media experiences, there is a lack of research on the conceptualization and operationalization of the “branded content experience” (BCE) on social media. This research aims to enhance the understanding of customer experience with branded content by exploring several experience dimensions and construct a BCE scale. We derived seven BCE dimensions, including self-identity, social bonding, utilitarian, aesthetic, humor, awe-inspiring, and discerning with the help of two qualitative studies. We employed exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis to propose a reliable and valid 35-item BCE scale. The findings suggested that BCE predicts consumer engagement with branded content (CEBC) on social media.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48260,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Interactive Marketing","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":11.8,"publicationDate":"2021-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42683582","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Revisiting Trust and Privacy Concern in Consumers' Perceptions of Marketing Information Management Practices: Replication and Extension","authors":"Kunal Swani , George R. Milne , Alec N. Slepchuk","doi":"10.1016/j.intmar.2021.03.001","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.intmar.2021.03.001","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The marketing literature has continued to examine trust and consumer privacy concern. A 1999 study that examined 17 industries found that improving trust and reducing privacy concern are two distinct approaches to managing consumer information, with the former being a more effective strategy than the latter (Milne & Boza, 1999). However, considering the shifting levels of consumer vulnerability due to technologies, managerial actions, and legal environment in the past two decades, a re-evaluation and extension of their findings is warranted. The current study uses a new and expanded dataset as well as new analytical techniques to re-examine the role of trust and privacy concern in managing consumer information. The new analysis shows that building trust still has a greater effect than reducing privacy concern on consumers' willingness to participate in information markets. Although trust and privacy concern have a negative relationship with each other, we find that privacy concern, paradoxically, is not negatively but positively related to direct marketing usage. This study also assesses the impact of trust and privacy concern across a typology for four quadrants of industries, the relationship of trust and concern with the managerial levels of transparency and control, and the moderating influence of age and sex.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48260,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Interactive Marketing","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":11.8,"publicationDate":"2021-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/j.intmar.2021.03.001","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41844231","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Colin Campbell , Sean Sands , Emily Treen , Brent McFerran
{"title":"Fleeting, But Not Forgotten: Ephemerality as a Means to Increase Recall of Advertising","authors":"Colin Campbell , Sean Sands , Emily Treen , Brent McFerran","doi":"10.1016/j.intmar.2021.06.001","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.intmar.2021.06.001","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Ephemeral social media is growing in popularity and brands are increasingly using this method to engage with and advertise to consumers. Yet, little research attention has been paid to how consumers perceive and retain social media content, particularly marketing communications, when they are aware it will disappear. Across five studies we find that when viewers know content is ephemeral, their recall of the content is heightened compared to when they believe the content will be accessible later. We find that this increase in recall due to ephemerality is mediated by processing effort, such that when consumers believe content will disappear, they expend more effort processing the content than if the content is believed to be accessible again. Relevant to advertisers, we find this effect spills over to advertising embedded within ephemeral social media content. Our findings represent a novel means of increasing advertising recall, qualify past findings and theory, and suggest an important new stream of research.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48260,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Interactive Marketing","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":11.8,"publicationDate":"2021-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/j.intmar.2021.06.001","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47811527","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Effects of Home Voice Assistants' Autonomy on Instrusiveness and Usefulness: Direct, Indirect, and Moderating Effects of Interactivity","authors":"Laura Lucia-Palacios, Raúl Pérez-López","doi":"10.1016/j.intmar.2021.03.005","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.intmar.2021.03.005","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This research investigates whether interactivity of home voice assistants can reduce the consumer's perceptions of intrusiveness when using these products because of their autonomy. To do so, the authors applied structural equation modeling to 607 questionnaires. The results show that autonomy has a quadratic effect on intrusiveness and usefulness, being more intense for high levels of autonomy. Interactivity reduces intrusiveness both directly and indirectly through brand trust, and interactivity has a positive effect on usefulness. Furthermore, interactivity moderates the effect of autonomy on intrusiveness. These results lead to interesting managerial implications, such as the inclusion of interactive characteristics in smart products to enable consumers to control and communicate with them.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48260,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Interactive Marketing","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":11.8,"publicationDate":"2021-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/j.intmar.2021.03.005","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45867589","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Let's Give Them Something to Talk About: Which Social Media Engagements Predict Purchase Frequency?","authors":"Timothy J. Halloran , Richard J. Lutz","doi":"10.1016/j.intmar.2021.05.003","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.intmar.2021.05.003","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Although marketers spend billions of dollars on social media platforms in an effort to make a connection with their customers, few know if their social media activation in the form of Social Network Advertising (SNA) is positively affecting their business. For example, little research exists as to which types of Digital Consumer Engagement (DCE) (if any) are associated with purchase frequency. Advancing a theoretical framework of social media engagement, the authors test the association between various forms of DCE and customer behavior using archived field data. By matching store visit data from 1,066 loyalty program members of a leading national fast casual restaurant with their engagements on the brand's Facebook page, the authors are able to compare the strength of the relationships between various forms of engagement and store visit frequency. Results reveal that some Facebook engagements are significantly associated with increased or decreased store visits while others exhibit no discernible effects. Empirical support is provided for a proposed hierarchy of DCE, with engagements perceived as reflecting strong DCE being more strongly associated with purchase frequency than those with moderate or weak DCE.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48260,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Interactive Marketing","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":11.8,"publicationDate":"2021-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43677322","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}