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How competing brands are being communicated through Influencer Marketing : A qualitative study aimed to explore how consumers evaluate an influencer communicating competing brands

Background: In today’s society, Influencer Marketing (IM) has become a rising phenomenon where brands collaborate with influencers in order to reach a wider range of consumers. Through the popularity of IM, influencers hold strong influential power since consumers feel a higher level of relatedness to them than traditional marketing efforts. The strong influential power enables influencers to communicate competing brands within a short period of time.   Purpose: The purpose of this study is to explore how consumers are evaluating influencers who communicate competing brands, from the aspects of trust and relationship.   Method: This study applied an inductive, qualitative approach with an exploratory and interpretive view of the findings. The research was conducted through semi-structured interviews with 11 participants, on the aspect of how they evaluate a fashion influencer’s communication on the platform Instagram.   Conclusion: The findings of this research contributed to the development of a conceptual model, including the aspects of personality & relatedness, trust, as well as influencer-consumer relationship. These aspects are important for the influencer to understand, in order to perform the communication in the most effective way to increase consumer purchasing decisions.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:UPSALLA1/oai:DiVA.org:hj-39953
Date January 2018
CreatorsDahlqvist, Josefin, Preiksaite, Samanta
PublisherInternationella Handelshögskolan, Högskolan i Jönköping, IHH, Företagsekonomi, Internationella Handelshögskolan, Högskolan i Jönköping, IHH, Företagsekonomi
Source SetsDiVA Archive at Upsalla University
LanguageEnglish
Detected LanguageEnglish
TypeStudent thesis, info:eu-repo/semantics/bachelorThesis, text
Formatapplication/pdf
Rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess

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