Media Brand Research Articles

Non-journalistic competitors of news media brands on Google and YouTube: From solid competition to a liquid media market

ABSTRACT News media are important for society, because they provide information on relevant topics based on journalistic norms, such as truthfulness and impartiality. However, traditional news brands have found new competition in non-journalistic digital media. Google and YouTube have disrupted the business model of journalism by creating platforms on which everything and everyone competes for consumers’ attention. Despite the recognised importance of this topic, empirical studies about the competitive situation of (journalistic) news media brands in the limitless digital media market are scarce. The aim of this study is to investigate the extent to which non-journalistic competitors replace traditional news media brands in relation to relevant topics. A programmed web scraping software automatically gathered Google and YouTube search results of trending topics (e.g. Industry 4.0, Blockchain, or CRISPR). Afterwards, a manual content analysis was conducted to classify the source of each search result (e.g. news media brand, corporate publisher, non-governmental organisation) (N = 556 Google results and 792 YouTube results). The findings show that news media brands still dominate on Google but placed a distant third on YouTube, behind amateurs and corporate publishing. News media brands should reconsider their strategies for YouTube with regard to presenting their content.

Using Social Media to Engage Communities with Research: Basics

This new 7-page publication of the Department of Agricultural Education and Communication defines social media, presents reasons for using it to share science, and identifies multiple platforms available for use now. We provide an introduction to and overview for a series on getting the most out of social media for sharing science or STEM, including agricultural research. Our primary goal is to assist people working through social media to broaden the community engaged with research. The series includes additional publications on social media planning, evaluating social media engagement, and social media for branding, among other topics. Written by Kathryn A. Stofer, Lisa Lundgren, Kirsten Hecht, and Tyus D. Williams.https://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/wc361

When a TV channel reinvents itself online: Post-broadcast consumption and content change at BBC Three

In February 2016, BBC Three became the first television (TV) channel in the world to close its linear broadcasting operation and instead prioritize offering its programming on demand, via the internet. Two Danish channels – both also youth-focused – followed in January 2020 for the same reason: budget cuts. Although the effects of ending offline distribution on the size and behaviour of newspaper and magazine audiences have been investigated, this article is the first to investigate the effects on a TV channel. The results show that BBC Three’s audience shrank by 60–70% after it closed its linear TV channel. The intensity with which the channel was viewed was even more sharply reduced: annual viewing minutes after the switch were 89% less than the channel achieved on linear TV before (and around 72% less if viewing of BBC Three-commissioned/acquired content on other BBC TV channels is included). The mix of programme genres consumed changed too, although further research is required to establish the part played by the change in distribution mechanism. This study furthers our understanding of media platform cessation by showing how change in the size of a media outlet’s audience after ending offline distribution may be affected by the proportion of its audience that consumes it exclusively offline before and how, irrespective of media platform, ending offline distribution seems to cause a sudden and substantial fall in the time spent with a media brand by its audience.

MOVIE-INDUCED TOURISM AS A POWERFUL TOURISM BRANDING MEDIA (Study Case on “Laskar Pelangi” The Movie)

ABSTRACTThe scarcity in natural resources encourage many countries move their focus to manage non-natural resources. Tourism sector is one of potential non-natural resource in Indonesia that needs to be maximized by appropriate media. The fact that number of tourists coming to Bangka Belitung increase until about 1.800% by “Laskar Pelangi” the movie is a good sign that movie can be a tourism branding media to increase desire of audiences to visit the place which is shown. This research examines how “Laskar Pelangi” as a movie-induced tourism can influence audience decision to visit Belitung Island using combination of quantitative and qualitative research. The result shows that Laskar Pelangi is a effective movie-induced tourism since it has both pull and push factors. Understanding this tourism strategy will allow nation to excel economy recovery in the future.Keywords: Movie, Tourism, Economics.

Dissecting news diversity: An integrated conceptual framework

News diversity is increasingly gaining momentum and relevance in academic research, but quantifying and qualifying the term remains problematic. This paper presents the results of a structured meta-synthesis literature review, in which all relevant publications dealing explicitly with news diversity, media diversity or content diversity of the 21st century found on Scopus ( n = 61) are coded and analysed. Findings reveal that studies dealing with these concepts are on the rise in absolute numbers, but also that their theoretical foundations predominantly still lie in the 1990s. From the viewpoint that said foundations have become inadequate to study and understand news diversity in the digital era, we propose an integrated conceptual framework, model and definition to operationalise news diversity, which takes into consideration recent changes in journalism as media concentration dynamics and changing patterns in news production and consumption. It does so by developing a typology of five categories of diversity (ownership, brand, production, content, consumption) and presenting three levels from which news diversity can be studied (the macro level of the media market, the meso level of the media company and the micro level of the media brand). Ultimately, the paper proposes the adoption of mixed methods research to reveal more about the characteristics, contexts and constraints within any media market.

A Hierarchy of Acceptable Changes for Audiences of Nostalgic Narrative Media Brands

ABSTRACT This research used the branding concepts of brand nostalgia and brand heritage to examine and understand the changes that audiences will accept to a narrative media brand, a term proposed by this research to help distinguish between different types of media brands with the aim of focusing and advancing media branding research into fictional media. Narrative media brands involve a continuing fictional narrative such as the Pokémon brand chosen for this research. The context was Reddit comments posted about three trailers for the ‘I Choose You’ movie before its 2017 release to celebrate 20 years of the franchise. 574 Reddit posts were downloaded and analyzed using Leximancer software and an adaptation of netnography. It was found that changes that respected the audiences’ parasocial relationships with the characters, as well as their perceptions of the brand’s heritage, were acceptable. However, changes that audiences believed would threaten and undermine these relationships and the brand’s heritage were not. This is presented in a pyramid hierarchy to conceptualize and categorize the level of change deemed acceptable by audiences. This research extends media branding research beyond seminal concepts by applying the concepts of brand nostalgia and brand heritage to a narrative media brand. The hierarchy has practical applications for the writers, producers, and brand managers of narrative media brands.

Sustainable Hospitality in Hotel Designs: An Ideal Process towards Limiting Energy Use in Hotel Facilities

Is no longer news that the cost of energy use in hotel facilities are ever-increasing, and this as a result of not just change in climatic conditions, but the earnest desires to give the customers the best of experience as customers always want something more. Apart from competitions that these various hotel brands face within themselves, yet another smart and intelligent business idea has emerged ‘Air bed and Breakfast’ founded in 2008, which is positively disrupting the industry and competing with all brands at the same time. This new disruption means most small and medium brands might go out of business as they wouldn’t be able to meet up financially! The bigger brands will have to do even more in terms of technology upgrade, human resource, and maintenance and design in general to maximize profits. All these will lead to an increase in energy demand for hotel facilities especially in areas where these competitions are very high like Washington D.C, New York City, Sans-Francisco, Los-Angeles etc. This paper is aimed at outlining the ideal process to be adopted in limiting energy by design for hotel facilities, and identifying technology and management tools, and equipment’s to be adopted for best practices.

Sustaining customer engagement through social media brand communities

ABSTRACT Customers are spending an exorbitant amount of time engaging various media outlets. Due to technological advances such as social media, marketers must innovate to stay top-of-mind for customers and approach the customer engagement journey differently. Social media allows brands to facilitate traditional offline brand communities, virtually. However, sustaining that engagement often presents a challenge and can be a strain on the resources of a company and marketing team. Allowing customers to engage with other customers and brands gives social media brand communities a unique competitive advantage over other marketing methods. By engaging in content creation within social media brand communities, customers and marketers are able to co-create value and increase customer engagement. Transferring part of the customer engagement experience into an online setting provides value co-creation opportunities among customers and for the brand. This manuscript proposes a framework for sustaining social media brand communities and customer engagement for value co-creation.

Social media brand engagement in the context of collaborative consumption: the case of AIRBNB

This study focuses on social media brand engagement in the context of shared and collaborative consumption businesses, a novel trend in the hospitality industry. By drawing on the concept of brands being defined collectively through an assemblage of heterogonous human and nonhuman actors, and focusing on the brand Airbnb—a peer-to-peer online platform for renting, swapping, and lending accommodations—the current study examines how consumers’ perceptions of Airbnb brand equity mediate the relationship between functional and hedonic brand image and social media behavioral engagement in terms of consumption, contribution, and creation of brand-related content (COBRAs). Results discriminate between direct and indirect effects. Findings reveal that hedonic brand image directly influences behavioral engagement on social media, whereas brand equity fully mediates the relationship between functional brand image and COBRAs. Implications for theory and practice related to shared or collaborative consumption platforms in the hospitality industry are discussed and suggestions for future studies are presented. This research paper provides conceptual and theoretical clarity on issues such as how consumers’ brand perceptions influence their behavioral engagement on social media.

The Most Active Brands of the Social Media: A Research on Facebook within the Context of Dialogical Communication Theory

Bu çalışmanın amacı, Boom Social’ın Eylül 2019 Raporunda açıklandığı üzere Facebook’u en aktif kullanan Netflix, Madame Coco, THY, Ziraat Bankası ve Mutlu Akü olmak üzere ilk beş markanın resmî Facebook sayfalarında hangi diyalojik ilkelerin ortaya çıktığını ve bunun sonucunda markaların takipçileri ile geliştirdiği iletişim bağlamını saptamaktır. İlgili markaların resmî Facebook sayfaları Kent ve Taylor’ın (1998) Diyalojik İletişim İlkeleri bağlamında içerik analizi yöntemi ile incelenmiştir. İçerik analizi modelinin oluşturulmasında Waters vd. (2011) ile Yağmurlu’nun (2013) çalışmalarından uyarlama yapılmıştır. Kent ve Taylor’ın Diyalojik İletişim Teorisi; ‘Diyalojik Döngü’, ‘Enformasyon Kullanışlılığı’, ‘Yeniden Ziyaret Sağlama’, ‘Arayüzün Kullanışlılığı’ ve ‘Ziyaretçilerin Korunması’ olarak beş ilkeden oluşmaktadır. Araştırma sürecinde beş diyalojik ilkeden dördüncüsü olan ‘Arayüzün Kullanışlılığı’, Facebook’un standart arayüze sahip olması nedeniyle değerlendirme dışı bırakılmıştır. Araştırma sonucunda Kent ve Taylor’ın beş diyalojik ilkesinden ilki olan diyalojik döngünün, üç markanın Facebook sayfasında ortaya çıktığı görülmüş ancak diğer iki markanın sayfasında tek yönlü iletişimin hâkim olduğu saptanmıştır. Değerlendirmeye dahil edilen diğer diyalojik ilkeler olan ‘Enformasyon Kullanışlılığı’, ‘Yeniden Ziyaret Sağlama’ ve ‘Ziyaretçilerin Korunması’ ilkeleri incelendiğinde araştırmaya konu olan tüm markaların Facebook sayfalarında benzer sonuçların ortaya çıktığı görülmüştür.

ANALISIS PENGARUH ATRIBUT PRODUK SEPEDA MOTOR TERHADAP PERILAKU KONSUMEN

The purpose of this study is to determine and analyze the factors of price perspective attributes, brand benefits, media branding, promotions, after-sales guarantee, products, colors, and designs as well as fuel consumption as items of motor products on consumer behavior. 
 The sampling technique used in this study was purposive sampling with a sample size of 194 respondents. The data analysis was using descriptive analysis and multiple linear regression analysis using SPSS software. 
 The results showed that Honda's products were more dominant in the implementation of its marketing strategy with a contribution of 87.75% while the attributes of Yamaha's products contributed to the influence of the remaining 79.40% influenced by other factors. In addition, the results of the analysis obtained a regression equation for Honda products Y = -13.33 + 0.428 X1 - 0.035 X2 + 0.02 X3 + 0.319 X4 + 0.01 X5 + 0.367 X6 - 0.03 X7 + 0.034 X8, while for Yamaha products are Y = -13.03 + 0.37 X1 + 0.5 X2 + 0.11 X3 + 0.30 X4 - 0.004 X5 + 0.33 X6 - 0.13 X7 + 0.2X8.

Effect of brand communities on consumer engagement and trust

The use of Facebook as a social media platform has been cited to revolutionize the performance of different brand and firms globally. The performance of the products and brands has been attributed to the creation of Facebook media brand communities, whose level of engagement influences consumer product outcomes. This study attempted to establish to what extend Facebook social media brand communities and brand engagement on brand trust. The study established that the three attributes of Facebook brand communities positively influenced consumer brand engagement (shared consciousness (?=1.52, p=0.001), shared rituals (?=1.44, p=0.001), obligations to society (?=2.11, p=0.001). The study further established that social media brand engagement positively influenced brand trust. The study recommends that firms should effectively increase their product and brand promotion and engagement through Facebook.

How users approach novel media products: brand perception of Netflix and Amazon Prime video as signposts within the German subscription-based video-on-demand market

ABSTRACT Today, subscription-based video-on-demand (S-VoD) streaming services such as Netflix and Amazon Prime Video are relevant players within the video content value chain by number of consumers and sales volume. These services represent a rich research context to examine users’ brand perception of novel media products. This study investigates Germany’s most popular S-VoD services Netflix and Amazon Prime Video from a perspective of the Function-oriented Media Brand Model. The model is applied to both services in a quantitative online survey (N = 1267). Overall, the results indicate a more favourably media brand perception of Netflix compared to Amazon Prime Video. Findings are discussed with regard to media brand theory and implications for media companies and potentials for future media brand research are outlined.

Data, analytics and creative intuition: An analysis of how to optimise return on social media investment on Instagram

Instagram is not just a brand-marketing tool. This in-depth analysis highlights the power of Instagram storytelling tactics in driving conversions and website traffic for content marketers, exemplified by the successes of global media brands such as the Guardian and Vice. This article explains how both the Guardian and Vice reformat their on-site content offering for mobile to appeal to their Instagram audiences, and also publish episodic series to attract new and existing audiences into regularly ‘tuning in’ to their content in a bid to boost on-platform engagement and on-site traffic. From these strategies, the Guardian has grown 79 per cent in Instagram followers in 12 months, while Vice’s Instagram Stories now sit at a 50 per cent retention rate. Additionally, this article emphasises the effectiveness of combining content strategies with social media strategies, and why it is imperative to be able to distinguish the differences between the two. The article also further educates content marketers on how to build-out a lucrative Instagram strategy and boost return on investment via data and analytics platforms, and campaign optimisation.

PERANCANGAN MASKOT ISI PADANGPANJANG SEBAGAI MEDIA BRANDING

Branding activities carried out to provide an image to the public about a brand. As one of the tertiary institutions in Sumatra that specializes in arts education, the Indonesian Institute of Art (ISI) Padangpanjang does not have a brand identity that is able to reach the public effectively. This has caused a lack of relationship between the ISI Padangpanjang and the public. To build a strong institutional identity that easily touches the public emotionally, gives a feeling of being closer so as to foster public trust in the institution, a mascot of ISI Padangpanjang has been designed. In the process, branding theory, as well as analysis of the vision of ISI Padangpanjang became the foundation in creating a mascot design. The results obtained are the creation of a mascot representing the ISI Padangpanjang named Si Kuaw. The Si Kuaw mascot design method is carried out through the design stages: research, thumbnails, roughs, comprehensive, and ready to press. As a media branding, the Si Kuaw mascot has been applied to various media, such as: motion graphics, art exhibition posters, new student acceptance brochures, pins, and mascots in the form of dolls.

Cross-National Similarities and Differences between Legacy and Digital-Born News Media Audiences

The decline of the news business model for print newspapers in many Western countries and the digital disruption caused by the Internet have influenced the rise of digital-born news media. These new media are different from legacy brands in terms of business models, distribution strategies, corporate organisation, and editorial priorities. It would be expected that the different nature of both legacy and digital-born news media has driven to two types of significantly different audiences. This article aims to analyse whether there are significant differences between the users of these two types of media, by comparing the online audiences of five European countries’ (United Kingdom, Germany, France, Spain, and Italy) legacy and digital-born media brands in 2015 and 2019. The article will focus on four aspects: demographic and socioeconomics profiles (sex, age, income and level of education); interest in news; payment for online news; and media trust.

Exploring Digital Native News Media

Digital native news media are becoming a blooming phenomenon, expanding globally. Up until now, however, the scholar community has paid little attention to online-born media, compared to the high interest devoted to the legacy media brands. Drawing upon the extant literature on this emerging topic, this editorial summarizes the empirical and theoretical contributions of the thematic issue entitled “Digital Native News Media: Trends and Challenges.” The author highlights that the studies selected for this thematic issue not only explore the innovative characteristics and opportunities of digital native media in thirty countries, but also provide a cautionary tale about their structural problems and limitations.

Personal Branding Politik Thoriqul Haq Melalui Facebook

The emergence of social media makes many variations in political communication. The rise in the use of Facebook sosial networks among modern society especially among young people makes Facebook as popular sosial network today. Facebook's popularity cannot be separated from its use as a sosial network that uses photos, videos as a communication tool, thus allowing users to create their personal branding to the publik through Facebook social media. Facebook also allows users to do personal branding politics through uploads and platforms that they upload. One of the politicians who use Facebook as a personal branding media is Thoriqul Haq. Through informative and educative and persuasive approaches and methods. To build the expected political image, Thoriqul Haq has delivered repeated messages on social media with an informative and educative, and persuasive approach. Broadly speaking, the political communication strategy carried out is optimal, especially in building political image as a new player in the political arena.

Customers’ motivation to engage with luxury brands on social media

Customers engaging with brands on social media is critical to social media managers; however, there is still a lack of in-depth studies on the drivers of consumers’ engagement with luxury brands. Drawing on 25 semi-structured interviews with customers following luxury brands in social media, this study explores what motivates customers to engage with luxury brands on social media. This research develops a theoretical framework for the motivations of customers’ cognitive, emotional and behavioral engagement with luxury brands. The study identifies 13 motivations grouped into six macro-dimensions: perceived content relevancy (brand news, post quality, and celebrity endorsement), brand-customer relationship (brand love, and brand ethereality), hedonic (entertainment), aesthetic (design appeal), socio-psychological (actual self-congruency, status signaling, and enhance and maintain face), brand equity (perceived brand quality), and technology factors (ease of use and convenience). This study helps marketing managers of luxury brands to understand how they can improve engagement with their customers.

How does personalization affect brand relationship in social commerce? A mediation perspective

PurposeThis paper aims to tests a conceptual model capturing the influence of personalized advertising on customer perceptions of brands in social media and identifies three market segments based on customers’ reactions to personalized ads.Design/methodology/approachTwo studies are developed to test the model using partial least squares structural equation modeling (PLS-SEM). Additionally, cluster analysis, multi-group analysis (MGA) and serial mediation tests are also conducted to provide better insights into the results.FindingsThe results of the two studies show that all nine hypotheses are supported except for H4 in Study 1. Three market segments (ad lovers, ad adjusters and ad haters) are identified. Each segment has a typical attitude toward personalized advertisements.Research limitations/implicationsBuilt on self-congruence literature, the current research posits that consumer-brand self-congruence can be established when a customer sees a brand advertised on Facebook after searching for that brand online. Consistently, this paper finds that through self-congruence, personalized advertising has a positive impact on brand-related outcomes.Practical implicationsThree segments identified – “ad lovers,” “ad adjusters” and “ad haters” are important for marketers. Companies should develop an appropriate advertising campaign for each segment, especially once the general data protection regulation is in place. Companies will be subject to a noncompliance penalty if an advertisement is posted on a user s account without approval. Identifying this segment promptly will not only enable companies to save resources but also help avoid legal complications associated with privacy concerns.Originality/valueThis research sheds light on the effects of personalized advertising on customer perceptions of brands in social commerce.