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- Title
Influencers and donations: The impact of source and product benefits.
- Authors
Cho, Yoon‐Na; Kim, Yuna; Ye, Christine
- Abstract
Nonprofit organizations (NPOs) are increasingly using social media as a communication platform to promote their charitable marketing efforts. The purpose of our research is to investigate how NPOs can enhance message effectiveness by utilizing a social media influencer and different product benefit appeals (utilitarian vs. hedonic) in their social media posts to enhance attitudes toward the donation campaign and word‐of‐mouth (WOM) intention, leading to higher donation behavior. Across two experimental studies, we show that an NPO's donation post (i.e., social media post promoting a donation campaign) is evaluated more favorably when paired with a hedonic benefit appeal, while an influencer's donation post is more favorable when paired with a utilitarian benefit appeal. Further, we find that the effects of source and product benefit appeal types on donation behavior are serially mediated by attitude toward the donation campaign and WOM intention. As the use of influencers is becoming increasingly popular to support fundraising and charitable causes, our findings provide timely implications for researchers and practitioners who are interested in optimizing NPO communication strategies in the digital landscape.
- Subjects
SOCIAL media; FUNDRAISING; INFLUENCER marketing; DIGITAL communications; MARKETING; WORD of mouth advertising
- Publication
International Journal of Consumer Studies, 2024, Vol 48, Issue 2, p1
- ISSN
1470-6423
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/ijcs.13039