Consumer engagement with visual content on instagram: impact of different features of posts by prominent brands
Despite Instagram's popularity among the Y and Z generation consumers, social media research investigating factors that can influence customer engagement on Instagram remains limited. The uses and gratifications theory underpins this study which investigates how social media marketing of promin...
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my.um.eprints.435272023-11-01T08:25:40Z http://eprints.um.edu.my/43527/ Consumer engagement with visual content on instagram: impact of different features of posts by prominent brands Rahman, Wan Nurhayati Abdul Mutum, Dilip S. Mohd Ghazali, Ezlika HB Economic Theory Despite Instagram's popularity among the Y and Z generation consumers, social media research investigating factors that can influence customer engagement on Instagram remains limited. The uses and gratifications theory underpins this study which investigates how social media marketing of prominent Malaysian brands on Instagram impacts customer engagement. ScrapeStorm web scraper tool was used to extract posts and comments from the public Instagram accounts of four notable Malaysian brands. The findings reveal that different features of social media affect consumer engagement differently. Social media influencers had a positive impact on consumption and creationbased customer engagement. Contextual features are negatively correlated with contribution-based customer engagement. In terms of content, videos had greater engagement rates, followed by images of people and images without people. Results also show that consumers reacted positively to informative textual content. Some implications for theory and practice are highlighted. Copyright © 2022, IGI Global. IGI Global 2022 Article PeerReviewed Rahman, Wan Nurhayati Abdul and Mutum, Dilip S. and Mohd Ghazali, Ezlika (2022) Consumer engagement with visual content on instagram: impact of different features of posts by prominent brands. International Journal of E-Services and Mobile Applications, 14 (1). ISSN 1941627X, DOI https://doi.org/10.4018/IJESMA.295960 <https://doi.org/10.4018/IJESMA.295960>. 10.4018/IJESMA.295960 |
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Despite Instagram's popularity among the Y and Z generation consumers, social media research investigating factors that can influence customer engagement on Instagram remains limited. The uses and gratifications theory underpins this study which investigates how social media marketing of prominent Malaysian brands on Instagram impacts customer engagement. ScrapeStorm web scraper tool was used to extract posts and comments from the public Instagram accounts of four notable Malaysian brands. The findings reveal that different features of social media affect consumer engagement differently. Social media influencers had a positive impact on consumption and creationbased customer engagement. Contextual features are negatively correlated with contribution-based customer engagement. In terms of content, videos had greater engagement rates, followed by images of people and images without people. Results also show that consumers reacted positively to informative textual content. Some implications for theory and practice are highlighted. Copyright © 2022, IGI Global. |
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