In today's age of technological advancement and rapid change, much of the communication takes place on social networks, which offer a great opportunity for customer interaction. Social media is a popular and widely used marketing tool for communication between buyers and sellers. Advertising on...

The core purpose of this study is to determine the impact of electronics marketing (word of mouth), perceived value, and social networking on customer buying behaviour through customer trust in the context of cosmetic industry of Jordan. To accomplish the main research objective, the study has...

The main aim was to determine the level of satisfaction of users of Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram by comparing the concept of a “virtual social network” with the perception of use by the users from the subjective evaluation of five features. An empirical study was realized with users of...

Peer influence through word-of-mouth (WOM) plays an important role in many information systems but identification of causal effects is challenging. We identify causal WOM effects in the empirical setting of game adoption in a social network for gamers by exploiting differences in individuals’...

Demonstrating compelling causal evidence of the existence and strength of peer to peer influence has become the holy grail of modern research in online social networks. In these networks, it has been consistently demonstrated that user characteristics and behavior tend to cluster both in space...

The advertising efforts in social networks grow every year. Since their appearance in the late 1990s Social Network Web Sites were considered as a uniform group. The only differentiation factors were the number of users and the amount of traffic passed through the site. This paper classifies the...

The purpose of this study was to determine the motives, the brakes and the ways of using Social Networking Sites (SNS) based on dimensional models that describe national cultural values explaining and predicting behavior. The study used a qualitative method, we conducted face-to-face in-depth...

The digital environment, which includes the Internet and social networks, is propitious for digital marketing. However, the collection, filtering and analysis of the enormous, constant flow of information on social networks is a major challenge for both academics and practitioners. The aim of...

Peer-To-Peer advertising is the newest trend in the age of online advertising. The Facebook gift phenomenon or invention of Application directories in Orkut or rapidly increasing usage of Avatars in Second-Life, all lead to new market dynamics using the latest advertising mode. In this paper we...

The advent of social media offers yet another set of communication channels which can brand add to integrated marketing communication strategies. Contrary to online advertising available on social media where traditional advertising logic provides an adequate explanation, the content creation...