Title
Electronic word-of-mouth, box office revenue and social media.
Abstract
The influence of eWOM differs by period, based on the social media characteristics.Twitter is relatively influential on movie revenue in the initial stage of opening.Twitter shows high immediacy and diffusibility characteristics.Online review sites are relatively influential on movie revenue in the late stage.Online review sites show the characteristics of high persuasion. We investigate how electronic word-of-mouth through different types of social media impacts of box office revenue across different phases of movie screening based on Roger's innovation diffusion model. We collected daily electronic word-of-mouth for movies from February to October 2012 from Twitter, Yahoo!Movies, YouTube, and blogs. The results indicate that Twitter influences on box office revenue were greater in the initial stage of a movies opening, because of its high immediacy and diffusion characteristics. Yahoo!Movies was more influential in the late stage of a movies opening because of high persuasion characteristics. Since blogs and YouTube contain characteristics of mass media and interpersonal communication media, we found that there were no differences for the impacts of blogs and YouTube on box office revenue between the initial and later stages.
Year
DOI
Venue
2017
10.1016/j.elerap.2017.02.001
Electronic Commerce Research and Applications
Keywords
Field
DocType
Box office effects,Electronic word-of-mouth,Innovation diffusion,Interpersonal communication,Mass media,Movies,Social media
Revenue,Social media,Interpersonal communication,Persuasion,Advertising,Computer science,Electronic word of mouth,Mass media,Immediacy,Marketing
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
22
C
1567-4223
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
5
0.42
10
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Hyunmi Baek1874.57
Sehwan Oh2172.72
Hee-Dong Yang360.78
Joongho Ahn410911.18