Abstract
This paper examines the impact of social capital on advertising performance in an online social network. Specifically, we show that a widely-employed measure of social capital—network constraint—explains variation in the number of click-throughs received by 5986 banner advertisements appearing on 25 Twitter-related websites. As predicted, banner advertisements receive significantly more clicks when placed on websites that bridge structural holes, i.e. bridge otherwise disconnected segments of the network.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 12-26 |
Number of pages | 15 |
Journal | JOURNAL OF ADVERTISING RESEARCH |
Volume | 49 |
Issue number | 1 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - Mar 2009 |
Keywords
- Mobile marketing
- Mobile commerce
- Mobile phone
- Marketing
- Internet marketing