Social media influencer marketing: foundations, trends, and ways forward

Y Joshi, WM Lim, K Jagani, S Kumar - Electronic Commerce Research, 2023‏ - Springer
The increasing use and effectiveness of social media influencers in marketing have
intrigued both academic scholars and industry professionals. To shed light on the …

Social media influencer marketing: A systematic review, integrative framework and future research agenda

D Vrontis, A Makrides, M Christofi… - International Journal of …, 2021‏ - Wiley Online Library
Over the past few years, the popularity of social media influencers (SMIs) has been growing
exponentially, making influencer marketing (IM) prevalent in firm strategies. Despite the …

Virtual influencers' attractiveness effect on purchase intention: A moderated mediation model of the Product–Endorser fit with the brand

H Kim, M Park - Computers in Human Behavior, 2023‏ - Elsevier
The fourth industrial revolution has fundamentally altered the way we live, and social media
has become a crucial channel for the promotion of brands through influencers. This study …

Authentically fake? How consumers respond to the influence of virtual influencers

C Lou, STJ Kiew, T Chen, TYM Lee, JEC Ong… - Journal of …, 2023‏ - Taylor & Francis
Artificially created characters–virtual influencers–amass millions of followers on social
media and affect digital natives' engagement and decisionmaking in remarkable ways …

The effect of social media influencers' characteristics on consumer intention and attitude toward Keto products purchase intention

B Al Kurdi, M Alshurideh, I Akour… - … Journal of Data and …, 2022‏ - nchr.elsevierpure.com
Social media influencers have become a more effective modern marketing approach used
by businesses to influence consumers' intention and attitude. This study explores this …

Impact of social media influencers on customer engagement and purchase intention: A meta-analysis

L Ao, R Bansal, N Pruthi, MB Khaskheli - Sustainability, 2023‏ - mdpi.com
This research aims at providing a meta-analysis of empirical findings of the literature on the
characteristics of social media influencers on customer engagement and purchase intention …

Consumers' responses to virtual influencers as advertising endorsers: novel and effective or uncanny and deceiving?

C Franke, A Groeppel-Klein, K Müller - Journal of Advertising, 2023‏ - Taylor & Francis
Virtual influencers, generated on the computer, are changing the advertising industry. More
and more brands utilize virtual instead of human influencers as endorsers for their marketing …

Impacts of influencer attributes on purchase intentions in social media influencer marketing: Mediating roles of characterizations

H Masuda, SH Han, J Lee - Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 2022‏ - Elsevier
Social media influencer marketing has recently received significant attention. Many studies
have explored the parasocial relationship (PSR) formation between influencers and …

Effective influencer marketing: A social identity perspective

S Farivar, F Wang - Journal of Retailing and Consumer Services, 2022‏ - Elsevier
Social networking in the form of online communities and social groups is a characteristic of
social media communication that has profound implications on the identity dynamics and …

Parasocial interactions with real and virtual influencers: The role of perceived similarity and human-likeness

JP Stein, P Linda Breves, N Anders - New Media & Society, 2024‏ - journals.sagepub.com
Digitally created online celebrities (so-called virtual influencers) have appeared on various
social media and video streaming platforms. While the scientific community has recently …