Cheng, Mengjie (Magie); Zhang, Shunyuan - 2022
videos on an influencer’s reputation. We collect a novel dataset of user-generated YouTube videos created by prominent …-video level. A difference-in-differences analysis on the matched sample finds a reputation-burning effect: posting a sponsored … video, compared to posting an equivalent organic video, costs the influencer 0.17% of their reputation (operationalized as …