A Study into Sponsorship Disclosure on Video Sharing Platforms: Evidence from Bilibili

Chenwei Li, Huijin Lu*

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Abstract

Sponsorship disclosure is becoming increasingly important in the marketing field and its business value deserves further exploration. This paper investigates how different types of sponsorship disclosure affects consumers’ purchase intention through influencer trust in the context of video sharing platforms with evidence from Bilibili. Notably, as a distinguished feature of Bilibili, the differences between bullet screen and traditional user comments in their impacts on sponsorship disclosure and customer purchase intention are compared in terms of consumers’ interactivity with the social media influencers. Based on the knowledge persuasion model and signaling theory, the results indicate that influencer trust mediates the relationship between sponsorship disclosure and consumers’ purchase intention both for general and specific sponsorship disclosure, and interactivity positively moderates the relationship between sponsorship disclosure and consumers’ purchase intention only for general sponsorship disclosure.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationE-Business. Digital Empowerment for an Intelligent Future - 22nd Wuhan International Conference, WHICEB 2023, Proceedings
EditorsYiliu Tu, Maomao Chi
PublisherSpringer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
Pages220-232
Number of pages13
ISBN (Print)9783031322983
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2023
Event22nd Wuhan International Conference on E-Business, WHICEB 2023 - Wuhan, China
Duration: 26 May 202328 May 2023

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Business Information Processing
Volume480 LNBIP
ISSN (Print)1865-1348
ISSN (Electronic)1865-1356

Conference

Conference22nd Wuhan International Conference on E-Business, WHICEB 2023
Country/TerritoryChina
CityWuhan
Period26/05/2328/05/23

Keywords

  • Bilibili
  • Purchase Intention
  • Sponsorship Disclosure
  • Video Sharing Platform

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