The Impact of Content, Context, and Creator on User Engagement in Social Media Marketing

Roope Jaakonmäki, Oliver Müller, Jan vom Brocke

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    Abstract

    Social media has become an important tool in establishing relationships between companies and customers. However, creating effective content for social media marketing campaigns is a challenge, as companies have difficulty understanding what drives user engagement. One approach to addressing this challenge is to use analytics on user-generated social media content to understand the relationship between content features and user engagement. In this paper we report on a quantitative study that applies machine learning algorithms to extract textual and visual content features from Instagram posts, along with creator-and context-related variables, and to statistically model their influence on user engagement. Our findings can guide marketing and social media professionals in creating engaging content that communicates more effectively with their audiences.
    Original languageEnglish
    JournalProceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences
    Volume50
    Pages (from-to)1152-1160
    Number of pages9
    ISSN1060-3425
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 5 Jan 2017

    Keywords

    • Decision analytics
    • Instagram
    • machine learning
    • social media marketing
    • user engagement

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