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- Parshuram Hotkar
- Rajiv Garg
- Kristen Sussman
Abstract
Social media platforms like Facebook and Twitter have emerged as effective channels for advertising that enable consumer targeting based on demographics, interests, and user behavior. Social media marketers have utilized information spillover within these platforms to reach a larger customer base. This information spillover also exists across groups of users within the platform and enhances returns from social media advertising. Thus, this information spillover can be utilized to strategically sequence targeted advertising to amplify the returns from social media ads. In this paper, we present a theoretical model for information retention and show that the sequential advertising strategy is effective in targeting groups of users on a social media platform. In addition, we provide empirical evidence through two series of randomized field experiments. From experiments for a health services organization, we find that sequential advertising campaigns provide 23% more clicks when compared to campaigns that target groups simultaneously, which translates to a saving of 18.7% in the advertising budget to achieve similar results as simultaneous advertising. Additionally, we found that sequential advertising campaigns targeting a smaller group first followed by a larger group provide 10.7% additional clicks when compared to targeting a larger group first followed by a smaller group. These results were consistent for consumer packaged goods that were advertised on Facebook and Twitter. These results provide implications for social media advertising research and practice.
Suggested Citation
Parshuram Hotkar & Rajiv Garg & Kristen Sussman, 2023.
"Strategic social media marketing: An empirical analysis of sequential advertising,"
Production and Operations Management, Production and Operations Management Society, vol. 32(12), pages 4005-4020, December.
Handle:
RePEc:bla:popmgt:v:32:y:2023:i:12:p:4005-4020
DOI: 10.1111/poms.14075
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