A Research on Users’ Participation of In-Feed Advertising from WeChat Moment

XU Zhi, YANG Liming

Chinese Journal of Journalism & Communication ›› 2016, Vol. 38 ›› Issue (5) : 119-139.

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Chinese Journal of Journalism & Communication ›› 2016, Vol. 38 ›› Issue (5) : 119-139.

A Research on Users’ Participation of In-Feed Advertising from WeChat Moment

  • Xu Zhi is a PhD student at the School of Journalism and Communication, Renmin University of China. Email:xuzhi_phd@ruc.edu.cn Yang Liming is a PhD students at the School of Journalism and Communication, Peking University. Email:lmyang@pku.edu.cn
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Instant-messaging (IM) software on cellphone has become the most popular APP in China along with the development of mobile Internet.In January 2015, WeChat from Tencent decided to make a commercialized moveas active users on WeChat are over 500 million monthly. Based on advertisers’ needs, WeChat achieved differentiated in-feed advertising push according to customer segmentation data. In order to investigate influencing factors in WeChat users’ participation on in-feed advertising, the authors conducted a survey to collect and analyze statistics. The results show that significance of variables related to advertising islimited, whereasvariables related to social media affect user’s participationsignificantly. Unlike the advertising effect evaluation of traditional medium, as the conclusionindicates, an interactive-based new evaluation system should be constructed for novel advertising on new media.

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WeChat Moment / in-feed advertising / social media / advertising effect / participation

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XU Zhi, YANG Liming. A Research on Users’ Participation of In-Feed Advertising from WeChat Moment[J]. Chinese Journal of Journalism & Communication. 2016, 38(5): 119-139
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