%0 Conference Paper %1 Park:2013:AWA:2512938.2512950 %A Park, Jaimie Yejean %A Lee, Kyoung-Won %A Kim, Sang Yeon %A Chung, Chin-Wan %B Proceedings of the first ACM conference on Online social networks %C New York, NY, USA %D 2013 %I ACM %K display om09 %P 155--164 %R 10.1145/2512938.2512950 %T Ads by whom? ads about what?: exploring user influence and contents in social advertising %U http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/2512938.2512950 %X Despite the growing interest in using online social networking services (OSNS) for advertising, little is understood about what contributes to the social advertising performance. In this research, we pose following questions: How many clicks do social advertisements actually receive? What are the characteristics of the advertisements that receive many clicks? What factors contribute to the clicks on advertisements? In order to answer these questions, we collect data from AdbyMe, a social media advertisement platform that connects businesses, or advertisers, with users of online social network services. Businesses can reach a large target audience through AdbyMe users who publish the advertisements on their social networks. We analyze the factors that may affect the clicks on advertisements being published on OSNS. In particular, we look into the advertised contents as well as the characteristics of users who publish the advertisements. We find that the traditional advertisement content analysis alone cannot fully explain the effectiveness of social advertisements. More importantly, we discover that in a social advertising paradigm, social influence of a publisher has a strong impact on the number of clicks on the advertisements. Our findings suggest that considering both the advertised contents and the influence of advertising publishers allows better understanding of the social advertisement phenomenon. %@ 978-1-4503-2084-9

@inproceedings{Park:2013:AWA:2512938.2512950, abstract = {Despite the growing interest in using online social networking services (OSNS) for advertising, little is understood about what contributes to the social advertising performance. In this research, we pose following questions: How many clicks do social advertisements actually receive? What are the characteristics of the advertisements that receive many clicks? What factors contribute to the clicks on advertisements? In order to answer these questions, we collect data from AdbyMe, a social media advertisement platform that connects businesses, or advertisers, with users of online social network services. Businesses can reach a large target audience through AdbyMe users who publish the advertisements on their social networks. We analyze the factors that may affect the clicks on advertisements being published on OSNS. In particular, we look into the advertised contents as well as the characteristics of users who publish the advertisements. We find that the traditional advertisement content analysis alone cannot fully explain the effectiveness of social advertisements. More importantly, we discover that in a social advertising paradigm, social influence of a publisher has a strong impact on the number of clicks on the advertisements. Our findings suggest that considering both the advertised contents and the influence of advertising publishers allows better understanding of the social advertisement phenomenon.}, acmid = {2512950}, added-at = {2013-10-23T17:48:26.000+0200}, address = {New York, NY, USA}, author = {Park, Jaimie Yejean and Lee, Kyoung-Won and Kim, Sang Yeon and Chung, Chin-Wan}, biburl = {https://www.bibsonomy.org/bibtex/20134bbf862d56097c2f2a143e0c6f9c6/griesbau}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the first ACM conference on Online social networks}, description = {Ads by whom? ads about what?}, doi = {10.1145/2512938.2512950}, interhash = {e706aa920bb1594c846b3f4d8aec951b}, intrahash = {0134bbf862d56097c2f2a143e0c6f9c6}, isbn = {978-1-4503-2084-9}, keywords = {display om09}, location = {Boston, Massachusetts, USA}, numpages = {10}, pages = {155--164}, publisher = {ACM}, series = {COSN '13}, timestamp = {2013-10-23T17:48:26.000+0200}, title = {Ads by whom? ads about what?: exploring user influence and contents in social advertising}, url = {http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/2512938.2512950}, year = 2013 }