The influence of social media content marketing on consumer engagement: A mediating of the role of consumer cognition

Abstract

This research investigates how social media content marketing impacts customer engagement and it gives more weight to consumer cognition as an intermediary means. According to the study, digital communication has transformed significantly in our modern era, from simple communicative and content-sharing platforms to social media networks evolved into major marketing platforms. Organizations now fundamentally bring about transformations in their interaction with consumers depending on how they choose to use these public forums. As well, this paper begins to provide a comprehensive review of the social media content marketing literature, with topics such as augmented reality, credibility of content, user-generated content, and customer perceptions. The paper has a survey sample of 350 managers from relevant organizations, selected to provide a broad representative range across fields and industries. This study, under the Technology Acceptance Model, aims to understand better, how consumers accept and employ social media content marketing. Research questions to be addressed in this forthcoming paper include an investigation into how consumer belief serves to mediate the relation between social media content marketing and customer engagement Additionally, it aims to investigate the extent to which consumer cognition intervenes in this link, and whether consumers' beliefs moderate results of an interaction with social media platform contents source (such as reading a blog or watching a video). With this theoretical framework and the related literature, the project aims to provide significant insights and make a more successful marketing practice.