The Impact of Social Media Marketing on Urban Youth’s Brand Loyalty: Through Facebook Marketing
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https://doi.org/10.31580/ijer.v4i1.1697Keywords:
Social Media Marketing, Facebook Marketing, Brand Loyalty, Urban YouthAbstract
Social media being established as an effective medium of communication, marketers now highly focus on social media marketing create brand awareness and institute brand loyalty. Considering social media is the most popular among the urban youth of the country and Facebook being most popular social media site, this study is thus designed in order to identify the impact of Facebook marketing on urban youth’s brand loyalty. Information was derived by conducting a validated questionnaire with a sample of 306 people which was further evaluated through regression analysis. It was found night time, 08:01 PM – 5:59 AM, is the most popular time period for the urban youth to use Facebook. Funny, informative, international/ national news contents are top preferred content on Facebook. A positive relationship between urban youth’s brand loyalty and components such as advantageous campaign, facebook group, popular contents and brand’s relevant contents of Facebook marketing. Whereas, updated content and electronic word of mouth (E-WOM) rather had a negative influence on the brand loyalty of the urban youth.
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