Seiler, Stephan; Yao, Song; Wang, Wenbo - 2017 - This draft: March 23, 2017
We leverage a temporary block of the Chinese microblogging platform Sina Weibo due to political events, to estimate the … more post-show microblogging activity increases demand, whereas comments posted prior to the show airing do not affect … viewership. These patterns are inconsistent with informative or persuasive advertising effects and suggest complementarity …