The appearance of new media changes the method of business marketing. Mass media used to be the most popular marketing channel in the past, however, new media based on social networking has become the most popular these days. Because of the rapid spre...
The appearance of new media changes the method of business marketing. Mass media used to be the most popular marketing channel in the past, however, new media based on social networking has become the most popular these days. Because of the rapid spread of smartphone usage, marketing using social networking services has become more competitive. Social networking services are considered to be effective marketing tools because of their reasonable cost, and reach possibility. Instagram, which is an online mobile photo-sharing and video-sharing application, has become one of the most popular methods of beautyandfashionbusinessmarketing.
As mentioned above, the interests and needs for social networking services, especially Instagram as marketing tools are rising, therefore studies about advertising appeal using images are active. However, it is still insufficient for practical study about correlation between advertiser and receiver, and method of marketing communication.
Therefore, in this study, we have set the problem of the next of such studies to examine ‘The effect of type of information sources and way of delivering message on brand attitude in social media advertisement’
I tried to verified following hypothesis of social media advertisement : First, the type of information sources makes a difference to advertisement attitude and brand attitude. Second, way of delivering message makes a difference to advertisement attitude and brand attitude. Third, type of information sources and way of delivering message make a difference to advertisement attitude and brand attitude.
To study the problem empirically, I surveyed 271 user of Instagram, the most popular marketing channel and the result is as following.
Fist of all, the hypothesis ‘When the source of information in cosmetic brand advertisement in Instagram is expert, the advertisement is effective’ was rejected because when the source of information is common user, the effectiveness was meaningfully high.
Second, the hypothesis ‘Emotional way of delivering message is more effective than rational one in Instagram advertisement’ is supported because when the way of delivering message is emotional, the effectiveness was meaningfully high.
Third, the hypothesis ‘The effectiveness of Instagram advertisement is depending on both the type of information source and the way of delivering message’ is supported. It is because when the source of information is common users, emotional way of delivering message is more effective, and when the source of information is experts, rational way of delivering message is more effective. Hence, I attempt to study how different types of advertisers affect receivers, and how different types of advertisement communication appeals to receivers. The result is below.
First hypothesis; In Instagram cosmetic ad, if the advertiser is a professional, the impact of advertisement will be stronger than that of a general person. The result of research shows that when advertiser is a general person, the impact of advertisement is significantly high.
Second hypothesis; In Instagram cosmetic ad, emotional approach will be more effective than rational approach. The result shows emotional approach is far more effective than rational approach.
Third hypothesis; In Instagram cosmetic ad, there will be correlation between types of advertiser and types of communication. The result shows the correlation between them. In short, it was more effective when a general person advertise using emotional approach in social media ad. Previous studies which considered the types of advertisers as variables, yielded a result that ads by professionals is more effective. However, this study saw an opposite result to previous studies. Therefore, I could draw a conclusion that it is difficult to compare traditional-mass- media to new-social- media based on the same criteria, and the reasons are below.
In the mass media, consumers-receivers- were passive. On the other hand, these days the consumers are not only receivers, but also senders. They consume information and communicate actively through social networking services, and this fact has become an important variable on studies of effective communication in social networking services. Also, creating is far easier than in the past. People no longer need to be trained to create high quality images or videos. In social media, they can easily recreate things. This study is a practical research about types of advertiser and advertising appeal for effective viral marketing. Also it has an academic significance by helping marketers understanding differences between traditional media and new media, and applying these theories to establishing a strategy of marketing.