Consumer engagement with visual content on instagram: impact of different features of posts by prominent brands
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
1-1-2022
Abstract
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.
Keywords
Customer engagement, Instagram, Social media influencers, Social media marketing, Uses and gratification theory
Divisions
financemanagement,Marketing
Funders
None
Publication Title
International Journal of E-Services and Mobile Applications
Volume
14
Issue
1
Publisher
IGI Global