Social media influencer marketing: foundations, trends, and ways forward

Y Joshi, WM Lim, K Jagani, S Kumar - Electronic Commerce Research, 2023 - Springer
The increasing use and effectiveness of social media influencers in marketing have
intrigued both academic scholars and industry professionals. To shed light on the …

Excessive shopping on the internet: Recent trends in compulsive buying-shopping disorder

A Müller, M Joshi, TA Thomas - Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences, 2022 - Elsevier
With the growth of e-commerce, many consumers have made a shift from in-store to online
shopping, and some are at risk for developing online compulsive buying-shopping disorder …

Authentically fake? How consumers respond to the influence of virtual influencers

C Lou, STJ Kiew, T Chen, TYM Lee, JEC Ong… - Journal of …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Artificially created characters–virtual influencers–amass millions of followers on social
media and affect digital natives' engagement and decisionmaking in remarkable ways …

The influences of livestreaming on online purchase intention: examining platform characteristics and consumer psychology

P Zhu, Z Liu, X Li, X Jiang, MX Zhu - Industrial Management & Data …, 2023 - emerald.com
Purpose Livestreaming, as a relatively new online marketing model, has generated
numerous business opportunities for e-commerce and social commerce. The purpose of this …

Digital influencer marketing: How message credibility and media credibility affect trust and impulsive buying

K Shamim, T Islam - Journal of Global Scholars of Marketing …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
This study develops an underlying mechanism outlining the impact of digital influencers on
consumer impulse-buying behavior in the context of social networking sites (SNSs). Based …

An empirical investigation of the impact of influencer live-streaming ads in e-commerce platforms on consumers' buying impulse

M Yan, APK Kwok, AHS Chan, YS Zhuang, K Wen… - Internet …, 2022 - emerald.com
Purpose E-commerce live streaming is a new influencer advertising method that allows
influencers to interact directly with consumers on e-commerce platforms. Although evidence …

Social media influencer (SMI) as a human brand–a need fulfillment perspective

AZ Malik, S Thapa, AK Paswan - Journal of Product & Brand …, 2023 - emerald.com
Purpose Social media influencers (SMIs) are becoming a powerful force within the
marketing and branding landscape, with several leading brands opting to use SMI …

[HTML][HTML] Competence is power: How digital influencers impact buying decisions in B2B markets

B Crisafulli, J Singh - Industrial Marketing Management, 2022 - Elsevier
In B2B markets, vendor companies increasingly rely upon influential individuals in the digital
environment to communicate information about their offerings to client organizations. Given …

Impact of celebrity, micro-celebrity, and virtual influencers on Chinese Gen Z's purchase intention through social media

CL Chiu, HC Ho - SAGE Open, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
Social media advertising strategies, including using traditional celebrity endorsers and micro-
celebrity influencers, are prevalent marketing tools. However, the trend of using virtual …

The impact of influencers' multi-SNS use on followers' behavioral intentions: An integration of cue consistency theory and social identity theory

JK Hsieh - Journal of Retailing and Consumer Services, 2023 - Elsevier
The considerable marketing potential brought by the rapid growth of social media has been
extensively examined in the literature, particularly in terms of the impact of influencers' …