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Effectiveness of Advertising Campaigns on Short-Form Video Social Platforms: An Empirical Analysis through a Large-Scale Randomized Field Experiment on ByteDance
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: Received: 23 November 2023 / Approved: 23 November 2023 / Online: 23 November 2023 (10:00:58 CET)
How to cite:
Liang, Y. (.; Chen, X. (.; Han, S.; Zhang, J.; Chen, Y. Effectiveness of Advertising Campaigns on Short-Form Video Social Platforms: An Empirical Analysis through a Large-Scale Randomized Field Experiment on ByteDance. Preprints2023, 2023111506. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202311.1506.v1
Liang, Y. (.; Chen, X. (.; Han, S.; Zhang, J.; Chen, Y. Effectiveness of Advertising Campaigns on Short-Form Video Social Platforms: An Empirical Analysis through a Large-Scale Randomized Field Experiment on ByteDance. Preprints 2023, 2023111506. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202311.1506.v1
Liang, Y. (.; Chen, X. (.; Han, S.; Zhang, J.; Chen, Y. Effectiveness of Advertising Campaigns on Short-Form Video Social Platforms: An Empirical Analysis through a Large-Scale Randomized Field Experiment on ByteDance. Preprints2023, 2023111506. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202311.1506.v1
APA Style
Liang, Y. (., Chen, X. (., Han, S., Zhang, J., & Chen, Y. (2023). Effectiveness of Advertising Campaigns on Short-Form Video Social Platforms: An Empirical Analysis through a Large-Scale Randomized Field Experiment on ByteDance. Preprints. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202311.1506.v1
Chicago/Turabian Style
Liang, Y. (., Jinglong Zhang and Yubo Chen. 2023 "Effectiveness of Advertising Campaigns on Short-Form Video Social Platforms: An Empirical Analysis through a Large-Scale Randomized Field Experiment on ByteDance" Preprints. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202311.1506.v1
Abstract
Short-form video has taken over social media and attracted attention from advertisers. As brands shift their advertising spending to short-form video social platforms, doubts remain about the advertising efficacy on these platforms, especially given the skyrocketing advertising costs in recent years. In a large-scale randomized experiment on ByteDance in collaboration with an automobile brand, we show a significant effect of the advertising campaign on ByteDance, compared with effects reported in other studies. Exposed users are eight times more likely to convert from outside than from within ByteDance, which raises the importance of information sharing between the platform and brands. When considering conversions outside ByteDance, the average cost per conversion, which brands commonly use to evaluate the cost of campaigns, shrinks by 5 or 25 times, depending on the methods used to calculate it. Information sharing can also affect a brand’s targeting strategy. While commonly used demographic variables by the automobile brand are effective for target marketing with only platform data, they are not when considering conversions outside ByteDance. Instead, a behavioral variable proposed herein (prior brand home page visits) effectively moderates the advertising effect but has no effect when including only platform data in the analysis.
Keywords
digital advertising; ad platform; ad spillover; advertising effect
Subject
Business, Economics and Management, Marketing
Copyright:
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